How to make candle lanterns handmade

Candle lantern handmade steps are as follows:

Tools and materials: glue, rectangular white paper, string, the paper to make the bottom bracket and cover, a small candle, a small stick, lighter or matches and other tools used to light the fire.

1.Prepare a rectangle of white paper and draw your favorite picture on it.

2. Fold the white paper like a fan with the front side facing out.

3.Unfold the folded paper to form a cylinder and glue the joints, it's easy.

4. Place a base tray at the bottom of the cylinder, glue it to the cylinder and place a small candle on the base tray.

5. Put a lid on the top of the cylinder and secure it.

6. Thread a string and a small stick on the top so that you can lift the lantern.

7.Light the candle and the lantern is ready.

Chinese lanterns, also collectively known as lantern colors, are an ancient traditional Han craft. After thousands of years of development, lanterns have developed different regional styles, and each type of lantern has a unique form of artistic expression. Every year around the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, people hang up red lanterns symbolizing the meaning of reunion to create a festive atmosphere.

Lanterns synthesize the crafts of painting, paper-cutting, papier-maché, and embroidery, and are closely linked 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 types of lanterns: palace lanterns, lanterns, 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.