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Product Description
How to Make a Chinese New Year Lantern
Looking for a craft activity for Chinese New YearWhy not make a Chinese New Year Lantern
Items you will need are:
■ One sheet red paper
■ Two to three sheets of gold paper
■ Pencil and ruler
■ Crayola Scissors
■ Glue
■ Sticky Tape and
■ a stapler.
Now you are ready to start creating:
■ Use the pencil and ruler to trace lines about 2cm apart perpendicular and along the whole length of the red paper
■ Use the scissors to cut through the lines leaving approximately 1.25cm at the top uncut - this will form the bars that will form the balloon of the lantern
■ Use some sticky tape to hold the bottom of the bars together
■ Cut thin stripes of gold paper
■ Glue the trimmings to the lantern bars
■ Fold 1.25cm at the top and bottom of the red paper
■ You can use the ruler and scissors to make a light crease so it folds easily
■ Take a gold sheet of paper - apply glue to one of the sides
■ Roll the gold paper to form a tube, this will be the center of the lantern
■ Secure the ends with the glue
■ Roll the red paper over the gold tube
■ Match only one side of the red paper to one end of the gold tube and glue them together
■ You can secure it with a couple of staples just to make sure it won't come off, the other side stays loose
■ Match the other side leaving some of the gold tube visible and shaping the balloon of the lantern
■ Secure the remaining side with glue and a couple of staples if needed
■ Cut two stripes of gold paper 1.25cm thick
■ Glue them to the top and bottom of the lantern (it covers all the tape, staples, etc.)
■ Cut any excess gold tube at the bottom if you will be placing the lantern on a table, or
■ Cut thin stripes at the bottom to form the fringe of the lantern if you will hang it
■ Make the handle with a strip of gold paper
■ Glue on both sides at the top
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