Methods and steps of making lanterns

(1) Lantern skeleton: some cardboard (waste packaging box) and color copy paper.

(2) Exterior decoration of lanterns: some red cardboard (the bigger the better, or other red wrapping paper), three cartoon New Year pictures (stickers), three greeting cards, six paper cores, some red Spring Festival couplets (couplets), diamond stickers, blessing stickers, Chinese knots (purchased or homemade) and so on.

(3) Tool materials: scissors, paper cutter, wide adhesive tape, double-sided adhesive tape, glue, glue stick, rope, etc.

2. Production process:

(1) Make lantern skeleton.

Because it is a double hexagonal palace lantern, the most important thing is to build a skeleton, which can be divided into two parts:

Make the lantern skeleton first. Splice 12 rectangular cardboard sheets with the same size vertically in sequence and stick them firmly. The size of each skeleton depends on the size of the lantern. This is a big lantern, and each skeleton is about the size of an ordinary greeting card.

Then make the upper lantern skeleton. Splice 12 pieces of rectangular cardboard with the same size horizontally and stick them firmly. The size of each skeleton should be coordinated with the lantern skeleton below.

(2) Exterior decoration of upper and lower lanterns

The lower lanterns are the main ones, and the external decoration should be exquisite and shiny. Of course, lanterns are bright red and the most beautiful. So use bright red cardboard to paste the six loaves of bread in the lower layer. Six sides are pasted with different patterns, namely, three Year of the Sheep stickers and three three-dimensional pattern greeting cards.

Underneath the lantern: seal the lantern decoration with ready-made golden blessing stickers, and then tie the Chinese knot as the bottom decoration.

Exterior decoration of lighting: printed auspicious greetings and auspicious cloud patterns with cardboard respectively, and pasted them firmly in turn. If children like it, they can also put colorful and shiny diamond stickers on the outside of the lanterns. Under the light, lanterns are more shining and gorgeous.

The flying corner of the lantern: made of environmental protection material-waste paper core. There are six flying corners on the lantern: red tassels (tassels) made by ourselves are stuck under the flying corners. Decorate the top of the upper lantern: Cover the top of the upper lantern with a red packaging bag (or other hard wrapping paper).

(3) Connecting the upper and lower lanterns: connect the upper and lower lanterns with colored or red thick ropes, and fix the bottom of the upper lantern skeleton with the top skeleton of the lower lantern. In this way, a red lantern is ready.