Make a Chinese fancy lantern for Lantern Festival
The Chinese Lantern Festival is coming, maybe you want to make a Chinese traditional fancy lantern for celebrating the Chinese Lantern Festival.
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
- Preparation of wood materials
- Building the frame
- Paperhanging on the frame
- Decorative your fancy lantern with paper-cutting
- Assembling the frame
- Installing the string which hang the fancy lantern
- 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
- The Preparation of metallic materials
- Building the frame
- Paperhanging on the frame
- 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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So beautiful!
Hello, the lantern is beautiful! I’m trying to see if I can have my 5th grade class make this. If I want to paint calligraphy on the lantern, what paper do you suggest using? Also, aside from hammering a screw to hold the wood together, is there another way such as using a hot glue gun?
Thank you!
Hello Betty
If you want to paint calligraphy on the lantern, plz use Xuan paper for your lantern, the Xuan paper is soft and absorbent. I think you can use some thread to bind the wood together, that’s very easy.
Love the lanterns. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi Risa,
Do you build custom lantern kits? my firm is interested in doing a team building project and designing our own lanterns and then building it together.
tx..Mark