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Parent-child crafts to welcome the New Year: simple and beautiful paper lanterns with illustrations

Parent-child crafts to welcome the New Year: simple and beautiful paper lanterns with illustrations

Want to make a lantern with your children in the New Year, but are struggling with the complexity of making traditional lanterns? Share a tutorial on making lanterns with colored paper. Similar crafts have been introduced many times, and I believe you will not feel this way. Stranger, come and try it~!

Parent-child crafts to welcome the New Year: simple and beautiful paper lanterns with illustrations

Material preparation: colored paper, iron wire, yellow ribbon, red ball tape, etc.

Parent-child crafts to welcome the New Year: simple and beautiful paper lanterns with illustrations

Fold the rectangular colored paper in half.

Parent-child crafts to welcome the New Year: simple and beautiful paper lanterns with illustrations

Then draw vertical lines at equal intervals from one side of the seal, remember not to draw them to the end.

Parent-child crafts to welcome the New Year: simple and beautiful paper lanterns with illustrations

Then use scissors to cut along the drawn line.

Parent-child crafts to welcome the New Year: simple and beautiful paper lanterns with illustrations

What it looks like after cutting.

Parent-child crafts to welcome the New Year: simple and beautiful paper lanterns with illustrations

Unfold and roll into a tube shape.

Parent-child crafts to welcome the New Year: simple and beautiful paper lanterns with illustrations

Use a transparent plastic sheet to roll it out into a tube shape, put the finished lantern on it, and stick it on.

Parent-child crafts to welcome the New Year: simple and beautiful paper lanterns with illustrations

Punch holes evenly on the upper and lower edges with a hole punch.

Parent-child crafts to welcome the New Year: simple and beautiful paper lanterns with illustrations

Finally, wrap the upper and lower ends with cloth and ribbon, hang them on a stick, and you have a paper lantern with a Chinese New Year flavor~