Lovely lantern DIY

You have probably seen or done these lanterns before (I think I even made some as a kid), but because it is such an easy yet lovely project I am going to show it to you anyway.

You can do it with your kids and the results are really pretty and stylish.

All you need is some strong paper, we used 160g paper.

If you have a working color printer you can print a pattern on the paper. My printer doesn't talk to my computer (don't get me started), so I had to make another plan:

Start by folding the paper length-wise

 

 Cut out some nice wrapping paper in the same size as your paper 

 Glue the wrapping paper onto the other paper 

Starting from the closed part, cut into the paper, stopping about 2 cm's from the top. Fold open and glue the sides together, holding it with a paperclip until the glue is dry

Here are the beautiful lanterns. We put the tealights into a glass, just to be on the safe side :-)

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