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How to make Lantern Festival lanterns

Lantern Festival is of great significance and essential! To make Lantern Festival lanterns, you need to prepare the following materials: two paper cups, several red lines, glue or double-sided tape, colored pens or chalk, scissors, etc. Be careful not to cut your hands when using scissors.

First of all, the steps of making Lantern Festival lanterns are as follows:

Before making 1., you need to prepare some basic materials. The recommended materials here are bamboo sticks, paste, copy paper, wrinkled paper, and double-sided tape can also come in handy.

2. Prepare several equal-length bamboo sticks. Cut off the tips at both ends of the bamboo stick and tie them together with cotton thread, as shown in the figure.

3. Then wrap and fix it with paper tape.

4. Make four frame structures as shown in the figure. These frame structures are the basis for making lanterns during the Lantern Festival.

5. Then use four frames, and then continue to add more bamboo sticks, which are also fixed with paper tape to form a basic frame of the Lantern Festival.

6. Then paste crepe paper or copy paper, so that the basic configuration of the Lantern Festival has been displayed.

7. Color, add a small candlestick inside, and your beautiful Lantern is finished.