New Year's handmade lanterns how to do and simple and beautiful

Simple and beautiful lanterns as follows:

Prepared materials: paper cups, double-sided tape, scissors, wool.

1, first of all, use scissors to paper cups above the raised circle to cut off. Then cut the paper cups into long strips of uniform thickness. Then trim the tops of the cups and cut out small triangles. Flatten the cups by turning them upside down.

2, and then prepare a paper cup, cut off the bottom of it, wrap a circle of double-sided tape. Tear off the double-sided tape and then stick it to the small triangles just cut out, be sure to stick firmly.

3, and then just cut off the bottom of the paper cups from the top cut down a circle of paper cups, double-sided tape on the inside. Tear off the double-sided tape and stick it on the outside of the triangle, again, make sure to stick it firmly.

4, are completed after the hand gently press down on the paper lantern so that it can be molded. It is best to use scissors to poke a small hole in the bottom of the lantern. Cut the wool into lengths of the same size, and then tied together in a knot, stuffed into the small hole, the lantern is complete.

Chinese lanterns, also collectively known as lantern colors, are an ancient traditional Han craft. After thousands of years of development, lanterns have developed different regional styles, each with a unique form of artistic expression. Every year around the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, people hang up red lanterns to symbolize the meaning of reunion, to create a festive atmosphere.