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Mooncake box handmade lanterns How to make lanterns from waste

Mooncake box handmade lanterns How to make lanterns from waste

Although the Mid-Autumn Festival has long passed, the mooncakes at home may not have been finished yet! Let’s share with the children a simple and beautiful eco-friendly handicraft. Make the mooncake box into a cute little lantern. Learn how to make it. ~

Mooncake box handmade lanterns How to make lanterns from waste

Material preparation: two plastic mooncake inner boxes, Chinese knots, red paper, and star stickers.

Mooncake box handmade lanterns How to make lanterns from waste

Poke a small hole in the middle of the mooncake inner box.

Mooncake box handmade lanterns How to make lanterns from waste

Put the Chinese knotted rope through the small hole. The Chinese knot should be on the outside of the mooncake inner box.

Mooncake box handmade lanterns How to make lanterns from waste

To secure the Chinese knot, tie a knot on the red string on the inside of the mooncake box.

Mooncake box handmade lanterns How to make lanterns from waste

Wear the other inner mooncake box relative to each other, and use patterned tape to tape the seams of the two inner mooncake boxes.

Mooncake box handmade lanterns How to make lanterns from waste

Tie a knot in the red rope that is threaded through.

Mooncake box handmade lanterns How to make lanterns from waste

Cut the red paper into tassels and roll them up to make the tassels of the lantern.

Mooncake box handmade lanterns How to make lanterns from waste

Attach the finished tassel to the hanging red rope.

Mooncake box handmade lanterns How to make lanterns from waste

Add the five-pointed star sticker to the inner box of the mooncake.

Mooncake box handmade lanterns How to make lanterns from waste

The beautiful mooncake box lantern is ready. If you want it to be bright, you can put a small LED light inside and stick it with tape.