How to make eco-friendly lanterns?

Techniques for making paper lanterns using bamboo strips, rice paper, pen and ink. The first step, making the skeleton. Paper lanterns are relatively simple shape is a cube or cylinder, it is best to use can be bent bamboo branches or bamboo skin to build a frame, articulation of the place with a thin line tied. If you can not find bamboo branches, bamboo skin, long thin strips of cardboard and barbecue bamboo skewers can also be strong degree and flexibility will be lacking, but placed in the interior is also a very good decoration. The second step is to make the body of the lamp. Buy a few sheets of white or red rice paper or gilded rice paper from a stationery store, cut them to fit the skeleton of the lantern, and then you can design your own pattern. Calligraphy, painting and paper-cutting can all be displayed on a small lantern. After gluing, you can also use narrow strips of imitation damask paper to border the top and bottom for a more elegant appearance, similar to the ancient palace lanterns. If you are not too good at painting and calligraphy, there is a simple way to refer to: use a sheet of thin paper in the calligraphy posters traced down the desired characters, this thin paper and crimson rice paper overlap together, with a single-edged blade will be dug out of the characters. Remove the thin paper, and the red rice paper appears to be skeletonized. Use white rice paper to make the body of the lamp, red rice paper glued inside, candlelight or light reflected from the openwork, the effect is quite beautiful. The third step is to make the light source. If you put it indoors, you just need to light an ordinary candle in the lantern; if you want to raise the door, it is best to use light bulbs and batteries to create a simple circuit and light.

1. Prepare one meter of thick wire, three meters of thin wire, wire, lamp base, 5W energy-saving bulbs, switches, plugs, cotton, pliers, screwdrivers and latex.

2. Bend the thick wire into the shape of the internal skeleton.

3. Use thin wire to fix the skeleton firmly.

4. Attach the lamp holder and bulb in the center of the skeleton.

5. Fix the bulb and adjust the thick wire skeleton smoothly.

6. Wrap the thin wire around the outline of the cloud directly in front of the bulb.

7. Brush latex on the wrapped wire mesh

8. Spread the prepared cotton on the fine wire and lay it as flat as possible.

9. Adjust the volume of the cotton ball after laying, and dissolve it with diluted latex to set the shape.

10. Let dry in a ventilated place for about half an hour or so.

11. Connect the required lighting circuit.