First of all, the method of making lanterns by hand
1. Material: iron wire, plastic tube (drinking straw), bamboo strips, colored paper or rice paper; Cutting size: The length required to cut straw or bamboo sticks depends on the size of lanterns. If you use iron wire, you can directly fold it into your favorite shape.
2. Binding skeleton: bind the intercepted materials into lantern skeleton with single-sided adhesive tape.
3. Making the lamp body: cut the length and width of the lantern skeleton with colored paper and rice paper or golden rice paper, and then you can design your own patterns. Calligraphy, painting and paper-cutting are all acceptable. After pasting, you can also use narrow silk-like paper to wrap the edges up and down, which looks more elegant, much like ancient palace lanterns. Paper,
4. If you are not good at painting and calligraphy, you can find some paper-cut patterns that you like, draw them on the copybook with a piece of paper, carve them with scissors or a knife, use white rice paper as the lamp body, and then paste the paper-cut patterns, so that candlelight or lights will be mapped out from the hollowed-out places, which is quite beautiful.
Second, the method of making lanterns with cardboard
1, material selection: choose colored cardboard, usually red and yellow, and cut out pieces of paper with appropriate size.
2. Carving: Carve your favorite flower pattern on the cardboard.
3. Modeling: Fold the carved cardboard into squares and hexagons as needed.
4. Lighting: Find a small light bulb (or LED light) connected to the battery and switch, and you're done.