How to make lanterns for the Lantern Festival

How to make lanterns for Lantern Festival 3 kinds of simple and easy to understand the Lantern Festival lantern making method

Practice 1:

Step 1: Prepare 12 small wooden sticks of the same length, and assemble them into a basic lantern frame, if you do not have the connecting plugs in the picture, you can use a strong rope to connect the wooden sticks, and then do not want to have thin linen at home to enclose in the outside of the frame, and paste and fix it on the frame

Step 2: Fold a piece of red colored paper and draw a favorite pattern, such as fish, rabbit, heart, etc., sticking to the side of the closure.

Step 2: Fold a piece of red colored paper in half, and then stick to the side of the seal and draw a favorite pattern, such as, fish, rabbit, love, etc., and then draw some simple patterns on the inside, and cut along the edge of the pattern of hollow

Step 3: Cut simply stick to the outside of the lantern, and then in the bracket on the opposing side of the rope around the rope, and then you can hang up it!

Practice two:

Material preparation: bamboo strips, cotton thread, paste (glue), wire, gauze, candles, cotton paper, bamboo shavings, scissors and so on.

Making steps:

1, the bamboo in the steam chamber heated for half an hour, and then removed, placed in a cool place to dry, but must not be too dry, and can not be placed in the sun under the strong light.

2, with a bamboo planer to remove the rough surface of the bamboo.

3, cut the length of the bamboo strips; this depends on the size of the lantern.

4.Weaving method to complete the lantern frame in a cross way.

5. In the center of the frame, tie several circles of bamboo around the wall of the lantern.

6, paste (mount) lantern, first mounted cotton gauze, and then paste two layers of single-layer paper for lanterns. (If there is no single light paper, fine cotton paper can also.) Framing cotton gauze must first dilute the paste, even flat brush on the surface of the skeleton, and then cut the gauze lightly attached to the lamp frame, and then use a brush dipped in paste to brush flat, here need to pay attention to, brush flat paste of the brush must be a clean brush, otherwise, the lamp surface will be a dirty mess. At the same time, the laminating paper must also be glued without seams before the real laminating is complete.

7, will be placed in a cool ventilated place to dry.

8, color painting. Painting according to personal taste to take the desired pattern, such as characters, eight immortals, birds and flowers, ladies and so on.

9, after painting, depending on the situation to decide whether to write text. When the text, the pattern is completely dry, and then a layer of tung oil, and then to be tung oil shade dry, lanterns are completed but DIY things are their own creation, you can remodel their favorite shapes and patterns!

Practice three:

1, prepare the basic materials and tools, including plastic cups, as well as cotton rope, scissors, paint and punch

The device.

2. Cut the bottoms of two disposable plastic cups.

3. Next, paint them in the appropriate color.

4, this time we punch holes in their bottoms.

5, at the same time prepare a strip of paper of the right thickness.

6, Pass the cotton string through the ends of the paper strips.

7, after stringing a few more strips of paper. We then add the bottom of the plastic cup to both the top and bottom of the cotton string.

8, Then we will squeeze it inward to make the structure in the center bend.

9, this time the bent structure will be opened.

10, in order to make this lantern look more beautiful, we also need to prepare a rectangular paper.

11, and then cut the rectangular paper sides of the structure to form a wadding structure like this.

12, steal the right amount of white latex or glue.