How to make a lantern with cardboard

Methods:

01, take a piece of red cardboard, roll it into a cylinder and then use double-sided tape to tighten the interface.

02, take another piece of red cardboard of the same size as step 1, and use a carving knife to evenly carve vertical parallel lines on the new cardboard (0.5 cm width between parallel lines is recommended).

Note: Leave 1 cm width at the top and bottom of the cardboard, so that it can be easily pasted with double-sided tape.

03, the carved cardboard rolled into a cylinder with double-sided tape to tighten the interface, making the lantern prototype.

04: Stand up the lantern prototype in step 3 and slowly press it down with your hand; after that, put the paper tube made in step 1 inside the pressed lantern prototype and stick it.

05, cut out two strips of yellow colored paper and stick them on the top and bottom of the lantern.

06: Cut a thin strip and stick it on the head of the lantern as a handle.

07, organize, the lantern is ready.

Chinese lanterns, also collectively known as lantern color, is an ancient traditional Han crafts. 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 symbolizing reunion to create a festive atmosphere.

Lanterns synthesize the crafts of painting, paper-cutting, papier-maché, and embroidery, and are closely related to the lives of the Chinese people.




[1]? Lanterns have become a symbol of celebration for the Chinese.

After successive generations of lantern artists inheritance and development, the formation of colorful varieties and high level of craftsmanship. From the type: palace lanterns, lanterns, chandeliers and so on. From the stylistic points, there are figures, landscapes, birds and flowers, dragons and phoenixes, fish and insects, and so on, in addition to the horse lanterns for people to enjoy.