A tutorial on how to make lanterns

The tutorial on how to make lanterns is as follows:

Materials and tools: red and yellow drawing paper 1 sheet, safety scissors 1 sheet, stapler 1 sheet, white latex or glue stick 1 sheet.

1. Fold the red paper horizontally.

2. Use safety scissors to cut the red paper at the same distance from the crease.

3. Fold a small part of the yellow drawing paper in half horizontally and tear it off.

4. The remaining drawing paper is rolled up along the long side.

5. Fix the opening with a stapler. You can also use white latex or glue stick instead of this stapler.

6. Coat the two long sides of the cut red drawing paper with white latex.

7. As shown in the figure below, wind it around the yellow straight pipe.

8. Paste the slender red paper strips into lantern handles and make colored paper lanterns.

China Lantern, also known as Lantern, is an ancient traditional handicraft of Han nationality. After thousands of years of development, lanterns have formed different regional styles, and each lantern has its own unique artistic expression. Every year around the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people hang red lanterns symbolizing reunion to create a festive atmosphere.

Lantern is a combination of painting, paper-cutting, paper binding, acupuncture and other technologies, which is closely related to people's lives in China. Lanterns have become a symbol of happiness for the people of China. Through the inheritance and development of lantern artists in past dynasties, colorful varieties and exquisite craftsmanship have been formed. There are palace lanterns, gauze lanterns, chandeliers and so on. From the modeling point of view, there are figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, dragons and phoenixes, fish and insects, etc. Besides, there are lanterns for people to enjoy.