Lantern practice simple practice

Lantern practice is as follows:

Required materials: cardboard, paper cutter, ruler, pencil, double-sided tape, string.

Making steps:

1, prepare a rectangular red cardboard (I am using an old expired calendar card) Do it yourself beautiful little lantern.

2, will leave 0.5 ~ 1.0cm on each side of the cardboard, according to equal parts of a number of parallel lines, and then cut with a paper knife.

3, roll it so that the cardboard is curved.

4, the paste, the corners cut into thin strips for the spike, and then paste the string Do it yourself beautiful little lantern, how about it, a beautiful little lantern is ready, do you like it.

Chinese lanterns and collectively known as lanterns, 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 tattooing, and are closely related to the lives of Chinese people.

Lanterns have become a symbol of festivity for Chinese people. Through successive generations of lantern artists inheritance and development, the formation of colorful varieties and high level of craftsmanship. From the type: palace lanterns, gauze lamps, chandeliers and so on. From the stylistic points, there are figures, landscapes, birds and flowers, dragons and phoenixes, fish and insects, etc., in addition to the horse lanterns for people to enjoy.