This week for our Art and Crafts segment here at Life of Dad we are making a decorative paper lantern. We were looking to make this to serve as a cool night light for my daughter’s room. The neat part of this craft is that you and your children can make their own one of a kind lantern with whatever design that they create.
Materials Needed:
12 pack soda carton
Tape
Ruler
Vellum paper
Black contact paper
Flameless candle
Scissors
Directions:
Take a 12 pack soda carton and carefully pull it apart at the glued edges. Next flatten the carton into a single cardboard layer. Cover both the finger insert cutout on the printed side and the back side of the carton with tape. Cut about 10 inches from the bottom of the carton. Cut out the square from panel insert. Glue the black contact paper on the front side of the carton.
Turn the carton over and cut from corner to corner in the form of an X. Turn the paper in center and fold on edge. Trim the paper and glue down. Cut out the center insert. Cut a piece of vellum the size of the insert, and glue to the back of the insert. Glue the insert onto the paper carton, and fold the carton into a square shape. Insert a flameless candle and now you got a cool looking paper lantern.