China Traditional Culture Manual Paper-cut Course

First, take lanterns as an example to demonstrate.

I. Tools/raw materials

Scissors, colored paper

Two. Steps/methods

1. Fold the colored paper in half and cut out a half lantern shape at the close position.

2. Then fold the semicircle in the middle of the lantern up and down, and you can see that the lantern is folded into 1/4 circle, and then cut out several curves, and the pattern of the lampshade is cut out.

3. Similarly, you can also fold the decorative pattern in the middle of the lantern into a 1/4 circle and cut it out. Patterns can be cut according to their favorite style, but the lines of the patterns should be smooth, varied and uniform in thickness, so that the cut patterns will look good. The most important thing is never to cut paper-cuts.

Finally, a beautiful paper-cut lantern is finished.