How to make a paper flashlight

Paper lanterns are a wonderful home decoration or party. How to make them quickly and with minimal costs - read further.

New Year's flashlight is better made from paper two contrasting colors. Cut the rectangle 10x18 cm of one color and slightly sewn (12x18 cm) - another. A wider rectangle bend along in half and, without reaching 1 cm to the edge, make cuts from the fold line to the edge at a distance of 0.5-1 cm from each other. Take this rectangle, as in the "B" scheme. A narrower rectangle roll into a cylinder and glue or secure the edge stapler. Make a lantern "handle" from the paper strip, attach it to the base. Now wrap around this base "openwork" blank and secure it with glue or brackets on the upper and lower edge. From above, lanterns can be decorated with sequins, hearts, asterisks or circles.

Decorative paper lanterns can be a highlight of your interior. For the new year, you can decorate the Christmas tree, and they can symbolize the pumpkin on Halloween. For their manufacture, make more than 10 strips (the amount is not limited) the same width and length (for a sample Make 1x10 cm, and then already on your own taste). Make punctures at a distance of 0.5-1 cm from the edge from two ends of the strips. Tolstaya durable threads Throw through these holes, on the one hand, fasten the thread on the node well, and even better strengthen with a paper "seal" (stick to the knot to the knot of paper, as in Fig. 2), and on the other, pull the free end of the thread so that the paper The stripes arched in the arc you need, then secure the second end of the rope. Now put the strips of the "fan" evenly in a circle to get a ball.

Unusual lanterns "birds in a cage" look spectacularly, and make them easy. Use high strength paper so that the "Cells" frame is not lost. Cut 4 strips 1x30 cm, make a puncture in the center. On paper shows a silhouette of a bird with a length of about 5 cm and cut it out. In the center at the top, pinched the hole and tie a thread. At a distance of 4-5 cm from the bird on the thread, make a large tight nodule and stripped the harvesters. Slide them closer to the nodule and make another node, on top of which you can wear a bead. Take the plastic light lid with a diameter of a little more than 6 cm, or just glue the circle of a dense strip of paper and scotch tape to this base the ends of the strips forming the frame, try to distribute them evenly and symmetrically. On top of the base, glue a strip of color or wrapping paper.

The usual paper Chinese flashlight can be "reappearing" and turn into a designer ceiling. Cut from fine paper a lot of identical billets in the form of a circle, oval or triangle and, starting from the bottom edge, glipulate them in a circle, so that the effect of "scraps" is.

You can bring comfort in a gazebo, a terrace or a winter garden with a street lamp from paper. Print the template, cut the appropriate blank from cardboard or tight paper. Purchase her right color. Instead of glass, you can glue parchment paper or plastic from packaging toys. And then let the will of your taste and fantasy, you can create an effect of antiquity with a foil or paint with a metal glitter, can be decorated with beads, artificial berries or colors.