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Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

Every Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, lanterns are indispensable items. Here I will share with you an illustrated tutorial on how to make a lotus lantern. As you can see in this tutorial on how to make a lantern for the Lantern Festival, the appearance is very beautiful, like A blooming lotus. If you want to learn this method of making lanterns, then follow our tutorial on making small handmade Lantern Festival lanterns!

Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

How to make lotus lanterns:

Step 1. Prepare multiple pieces of tissue paper as materials for making lanterns.
Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

Step 2. Prepare white latex for two-color sticky processing. If your paper material itself is relatively thick, you can ignore the processing in these areas.
Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

Step 3. Use a brush or brush to evenly apply the white latex to the tissue paper.
Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

Step 4. Here you can see that after the application is completed, while the white latex is not dry yet, cover it with another layer of tissue paper.
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Step 5. After it is slightly dry, we can use an iron to iron and dry the paper.
Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

Step 6: First cut the paper into a 2x8CM rectangle, and then fold the upper edge downward as shown in the picture.
Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

Step 7. A total of two more consecutive folds are required to form a three-layer structure, and the paper is rotated.
Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

Step 8. Then use scissors to cut it from the top, then fold it into a small house shape as shown in the picture, and use white latex to fold and fix it.
Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

Step 9. We then cut eight 2x3CM and 2x4CM rectangular papers respectively, and fold them as shown in the picture.
Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

Step 10. After folding both sides, fix it with white latex as well.
Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

Step 11. First paste the 2x3CM paper onto the folded structure completed in step 8.
Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

Step 12. Paste the 2x4CM paper onto the structure completed in the previous step in the same way.
Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

Step 13. Finally, we turn the entire lantern over and paste the side edges with white latex. The lotus lantern is finished.
Illustrated tutorial on how to make lotus lanterns Handmade Lantern Festival lanterns

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