How to make New Year's Day lanterns handmade

New Year's Day lantern practice is as follows:

One, use toilet paper core tube to do New Year's Day lantern

Materials and tools: toilet paper waste paper core tube, scissors, ruler, paint, pencil, string.

1, with a pencil at both ends of the paper core tube into about 4cm or so, and then draw equally spaced vertical lines.

2. Cut the vertical lines with scissors, then flatten the paper cone as shown in the picture, and cut out the pineapple triangles at both ends. Find two other paper cones and cut them according to the pictures below, labeled 2 and 3, and put the three cones together one by one.

3. Paint the outside with color, the lantern hanging will look more eye-catching.

4, use more discarded paper core tube to make more colors, wear the rope can be hung on the tree or chandelier, beautiful, right.

Two, with the beverage paper cups DIY production of red lanterns

This is the use of paper cups filled with drinks made of lanterns, but also with the keys, shells, beads and so on to make a better look of personalized wind chimes.

1, first of all, use scissors to cut thin strips along the side of the old paper cups, but be careful to cut to about 1cm from the bottom of the cups do not cut; then we carefully trim the end of the thin strips into a trapezoid.

2, in accordance with the circle at the bottom of the cup is a little larger than the diameter of the old cardboard cut a large circle, from the radial direction of the large circle in accordance with the spacing of the thin strips of paper cups above the same cut out a number of small equal parts; double-sided tape to the paper cups one by one to the top of the circle just cut each open branch.

3, the ribbon with double-sided tape on the just cut paper cups left a circle of 1cm blank, and then use red paint to paint the paper cups red.

4, take some red-dyed paper or wrapping paper, cut into thin strips, and use adhesive tape to form spikes. Stick the spikes to the bottom of the lantern made of old paper cups, and a waste DIY brightly colored lantern is ready.

Three, vintage red lanterns

Required materials: red cardboard, scissors, paper type, glue, scissors, paint, paintbrush.

1, cut the diameter of 20cm round piece of red cardboard, folded twice along the crease as shown in the picture folded into a quarter-circle double-layer fan. Lift up the sides of the fan and flatten it into a four-layer fan of one-eighth of a circle, pressing firmly to make the crease deeper and more obvious.

2. Reopen the four-layered, one-eighth-circle fan and cut a small octagonal shape out of draft paper, placing it in the center of a round piece of red cardstock so that the center of the octagon coincides with the center of the circle, and the sides of the octagon correspond to the edges formed by the folds on the red piece of cardstock. Use scissors to cut notches from the center of the red cardstock along the octagonal paper shape.

3. For the outer edges of the rounded cardstock, cut small triangular notches at the recessed obtuse corners every two sides. Then, in accordance with the pattern paper type, print and lay on the cardboard, in the paper type hollow position for the red cardboard coated with white paint, or directly to the cardboard also in accordance with the paper type of holes on the hollow position.

4, the red cardboard as shown arched into a cone, cut the red paper strip wrapped in the top folded gap bar, wrapped into the outer frame of the lantern, so we get the top half of the DIY lantern. Repeat the above 4 steps to make the lower body of the lantern using another piece of red cardboard, then glue them staggered and bond them together for a complete traditional big red lantern.

5, the good red lantern, is not very retro and traditional.