Chinese New Year Round Paper Lantern

This year, we are making another version of paper lantern which is slightly round with hard paper as bottom tassel. It is simple, elegant and easy to make. 

Materials Required:
1. A4 size yellow card board (about 160gm).
2. Printed strips on A4 size red paper (about 80gm).
3. Golden strip x 2 (about 30-cm length x 2-cm width each).
​4. Red strip x 1 (about 30-cm length x 2-cm width).
5. White glue
6. Scissors

1. Hold yellow cardboard horizontally and fold cylinder. Glue at the end for it to stay.

​2. Put the yellow cardboard aside and move on to cut the red paper, following the printed strips. 
Hold the red paper half (as if folding but do not fold to make a line) so that it's easier to cut the strips.

​3. Once all strips are cut, open up the red paper and put glue on  both ends on the printed side of the red paper.

4. Glue the red paper around the yellow cylinder, leaving around 8-cm as tassel. Refer to the above picture

5. Once glued, turn it around, it will look like this where the 8-cm leftover will be facing down.

6. Put glue on the back of the golden strip.

​7. Stick the golden strips on both ends of the red paper.

Remember to shape the red paper strips so that they look round.

8. Cut the bottom leftover space on the yellow cylinder making it like tassel. 
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9. Lastly, stick the handle using red strip (from inside).

​10. Here's the completed picture of the paper round lantern!