How to make lanterns handmade

You can make handmade lanterns by the following steps:

1. Prepare the materials for making lanterns.

First prepare two paper cups, a pair of scissors, and some double-sided tape and transparent tape. Once you are ready, you can start making handmade lanterns.

2. Use the scissors to cut the cups, in order.

First pick up a paper cup, then use scissors to cut off the rim of the cup, then put the cup upright, use scissors to cut the cup into a strip, as the main body of the lantern, but don't cut to the bottom, the bottom of the cup needs to be kept up. After cutting, take out another cup and cut the bottom of this cup with scissors.

3. Use double-sided tape to stick the cups together.

Glue the openings of the cut lantern body and the bottom of the cut cups together with double-sided tape, and a lantern is largely completed. Then use a stick or paper rod to make the handle of the lantern, you can also dye the lantern with your favorite color, such as red, this way a lantern is completed.

Expanded:

The lantern is a kind of caged light fixture. It is a very ancient folk handicraft. Its outer layer of thin gabion or wire and other skeleton, and masked with paper or yarn and other transparent things, inside the light candle. For lighting, decoration or play.

Chinese lanterns, also known collectively as lanterns, originated more than 1,800 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, before and after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, people hang up red lanterns to symbolize the significance of reunion, to create a festive atmosphere.