How to make small lanterns

The method of making small lanterns is as follows:

First, prepare two paper cups, a pair of scissors, and some double-sided tape and scotch tape. You can start making handmade lanterns when you are ready.

Cut the cup with scissors. First pick up a paper cup, then cut off the edge of the cup with scissors, then erect the cup, cut it into strips with scissors as the main body of the lantern, but don't cut it to the end, the bottom of the cup needs to be kept. After cutting, take out another cup and cut the bottom of this cup with scissors.

Stick the cup with double-sided tape. Stick the cut lamp body opening and the just cut cup bottom together with double-sided tape, and a lantern is basically completed. Then use a wooden stick or paper stick as the handle of the lantern, and you can also dye the lantern with your favorite color, so that a lantern is finished.

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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.