Some school usually gives the homework about make a paper lantern before the Lantern Festival, that's not a very difficulte thing, there are many ways to make a lantern, in this post, I'll show you how to make a red paper lantern within 5 easy steps, the pictures is from a manual arts book.
At first, you must get these materials for this work.
Material: red paper*1 knife*1 stick*1 threads*n(n>1)
Step 1: Use the knife line out a rectangle in the red paper, remove the area of the rectangle.
Step 2: To fold the red paper, and then re-spread
Step 3: Coated one of the long end of the rectangular red paper with glue.
Step 4: After being glued, pressure from the upper and lower to the middle, to let the folded part stand out.
Step 5: Hanging threads and stick to finish the handicraft.
Suggestions: Using Battery-powered light bulb as the light source is better than using candles for light in these minitype simple lanterns.
