Instructions to Make a Lantern

Note: This article was prepared for a culture event in my son's school.

l  Make the body with the red paper

1. Fold the red paper by half, and fold again, and fold again (three times, along the longer side).

2. Draw a half circle along the folding side. This decides the size of the lantern. The bigger, the better.

3. Cut along the line, we get 4 circles.

l  Make the Spring character with the yellow paper

1. Fold the yellow paper by half, and fold again, and fold again (three times, along the longer side).

2. Draw the following lines along the folding side.

The graph is missing. Need to retry in the future. 

3. Cut along the line, we get 4 characters “春”, which mean Spring in Chinese.

l  Make the decorations with the rest of yellow paper

1. Cut a 0.8cm wide, 15cm long stripe, which is the handle of the lantern.

2. Cut a 2cm wide, 3cm long rectangle, and then cut it into tassels as the following. Remember not to cut to the end for each line.

 

See the graph in the attached Word document.

l  Put them together

1. Glue each character to a circle in the middle.

2. Glue 4 circles together one by one.

3. Glue the handle to the top of the lantern.

4. Glue the tassels to the bottom of the lantern.