Materials: Paper cup, red paint, plastic rod, red cotton thread
Tools: Brushes, scissors

Step 1: According to pictures, cut paper cups

Step 1: According to pictures, cut paper cups

Step 2: The paper cup was cut finished

Step 2: The paper cup was cut finished

Step 3: Trim the upper edge of the paper cup

Step 3: Trim the upper edge of the paper cup

Step 4:  Use another paper cup to make the lantern lid

Step 4: Use another paper cup to make the lantern lid

Step 5: Use red cotton thread through the center of the lantern’s lid and bottom

Step 5: Use red cotton thread through the center of the lantern's lid and bottom

Step 6: Stick lid and bottom with a red narrow strip of paper;

Step 6: Stick lid and bottom with a red narrow strip of paper;

Step 7: Use red pigment to change the color of paper to red

Step 7: Use red pigment to change the color of paper to red

Step 8: Use the cut paper to make the tassel

Step 8: Use the cut paper to make the tassel

Step 9: Assembled the parts of lantern

Step 9: Assembled the parts of lantern

Now, your Chinese red lantern is finished, do you think it’s very easy?

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.

If you think this lantern is too simple, you can view here:

• Make a Chinese fancy lantern for Lantern Festival
• How to make a Traditional Lantern Video

Here has two parts of a detailed video about it, it’s a standard course. I’m sure it can help you, only that the video speeking in Chinese Mandarin, despite that I think the video scene is very enough.

fancy lantern

I would like to translate all the commentary for you, but my English is so poor that I can’t complete the whole work very well by myself. Too many professional jargon may smashed my head against the wall I really don’t know how to translate them, maybe in English these words does not exist.

Then I’ll try to translate each entry in the video, I’m sure you can follow the steps and video finish a Chinese traditional fancy lantern. If you have any question, you can leave your comment. Thank you.

Part1:Seven main steps of Making a Chinese traditional fancy lantern

1. Preparation of wood materials
2. Building the frame
3. Paperhanging on the frame
4. Decorative your fancy lantern with paper-cutting
5. Assembling the frame
6. Installing the string which hang the fancy lantern
7. Place candle inside the fancy lantern

If you can read Chinese character that would be so nice, here is the Chinese character commentary. Click here to down load the Chinese character commentary about the steps of making a Chinese fancy lantern

Part2: How to make the large-size fancy lantern

1. The Preparation of metallic materials
2. Building the frame
3. Paperhanging on the frame
4. Decorative the finished lantern

Click here to down load the Chinese character commentary about How to make the large-size fancy lantern

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This video is a lovely video, only that the author didn’t number them, and divided them  into 9 parts to upload. Everybody can’t watch them in the order.

For watching it easily, I try to make the 9 parts in 1 post.  I hope it is useful to you.

Folding the star points for a paper lantern. Lighting up a room by learning how to make a star-shaped paper lantern in this free crafting video.

1. Folding the Points for a Paper Star
2. Drawing a Star Outline for a Paper
3. Adding Glue Tabs to a Paper Lantern
4. Cutting Out Star Points for a Paper
5. Attaching Star Points for a Paper Lantern
6. Adding Light Holes to a Paper Lantern
7. Decorating Stars on a Paper Lantern
8. Adding Lights to a Paper Star Lantern
9. Supplies for Making Paper Lanterns

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The lantern can be used as lighting in the home. To make the paper lantern,the best material is use of the polypropylene material. However, if we just want to make a little paper lanterns as decoration and embellishment, it can use paper to have a try. After all, it’s making use of origami techniques. The production process is not complicated, just few simple steps. Follow me!

An easy paper lantern

1.At first,view picture,and mark in accordance with length and width.

How to make paper lantern step 1

2.If you use cardboard or polypropylene materials,you can use the burin to draw creases; If it is soft paper, you can use your hand to do it.

How to make paper lantern step 2

3.Continue to fold the the parallel line on other direction.

How to make paper lantern step 3

4.Flip the paper to see.

How to make paper lantern step 4

5.Fold under the red line.

How to make paper lantern step 5

6.Stick the pink section together, and along the line to let paper uneven.

How to make paper lantern step 6

7.Affix the pink  section with glue, make sure it is permanently attached.

How to make paper lantern step 7

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Material:

• A Coke bottle(about 2L)
• A red light bulb(15-25w, with bulb holder , plug and some wire)
• An A4 paper which was printed with patterns (Example using a bamboo pattern)
• A scissors.
• A piece of sandpaper
• A roll of adhesive tape

The process of manufacture

• Cut the bottom of the bottle Coke with scissors (Take a piece of sandpaper and round off the angles. Take care, and not injure oneself!)
• Use scissors to open seven holes at the top of bottle (one hole in bottle cap, others surrounded  it at the top of bottle)
• Use the wires go through the bottle cap, and fitted it with light bulbs and bulb holder.
• Crop your A4 paper to the right size, roll it up, put it inside the bottle and fixed it with adhesive tape.
• Install the plugs, check there is no problom, then open power.

Reference picture

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