How To Make Paper Lantern Craft

Fall kicks off the festival season. We got thinking about how to welcome the festivals and create crafts to celebrate them. We thought “what’s common across the two big festivals - Christmas and Diwali”? And, the answer came back “lights”! Interesting isn’t it?

Lights are such a huge part of celebrating major festivals. So, we made the paper lantern craft or paper luminaries using paper, popsicle sticks and some mandala art.

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Learning about festivals and celebrating them with your kids is so much fun. These are days that kids look forward and form long-term happy memories around.

Making a craft that can symbolize festivals helps them develop an understanding of customs, culture, and tradition. While, also exercising their creative neurons for visualizing, conceiving and implementing ideas.

Happy Festival Season! May the light be with you.

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HOW TO MAKE LANTERN CRAFT?

1. Glue four craft sticks together to make the sides of the lantern. If you want to add the base to the lantern, make one more craft stick square.

2. Cut 4 square pieces of tracing paper.

3. Trace and color the mandala pattern on one of the tracing papers.

4. Glue the tracing papers to the wood stick squares.

5. Glue the sides together using a hot glue gun. You can also regular white glue - It just takes little extra time to dry.

6. Decorate the lantern edges with washi tape. Place an LED tealight candle inside it and you are all set to decorate your house for the festival season.