Homemade lantern tutorial

Homemade lanterns tutorial

There are two ways: one is handmade lanterns; the second is to use cardboard to make lanterns.

One, handmade lantern method

1, choose materials: you can choose wire, plastic tubing (straws used to suck drinks) or bamboo and wood strips, colored paper or rice paper and so on.

2. Cutting: Take the straws or strips of bamboo and wood and cut them to the desired length, depending on the size of the lantern. If you use wire, you can fold it directly into your favorite shape.

3, tie the skeleton: using one-sided adhesive paper to intercept the material, tied into the skeleton of the lantern.

4, making the lantern body: with colored paper and rice paper or sprinkled rice paper, cut to meet the length and width of the lantern skeleton, you can design your own pattern. Calligraphy, painting, paper-cutting, can be. After gluing, you can also use narrow strips of imitation damask paper up and down the edges, looks more elegant, much like the ancient palace lanterns.

5, if you are not too good at calligraphy and painting, you can find some of their favorite paper-cutting patterns, with a piece of thin paper in the word posters traced down, and then carved with scissors or a knife, with white rice paper to do the body of the lamp, in the paper-cutting patterns pasted on the candle or light from the skeleton mapped out, the effect is quite beautiful.

Second, the cardboard lantern method

1, selection of materials: the use of colored cardboard, generally more red and yellow, cut the appropriate size of the paper.

2, carving: in the cardboard carved out of their favorite through the flower pattern

3, modeling: the carved through the flower of the cardboard, according to the need to fold into a square, hexagonal and other shapes.

4, installed lights: find a small light beads (or LED lights) connected to the battery and switch, it is done.