St. Martin's Day is approaching and you can use the remaining days until the festival to make beautiful lanterns with the children for the parade. In this article we explain how you can easily and quickly make a lantern out of paper plates. Follow the steps and prepare the children for the St. Martin's parade!
Whether in kindergarten, primary school or at home, children will surely have a lot of fun making this cute bunny lantern. It consists of inexpensive paper plates and can be recreated without much effort. So put thoseCraft lesson for the little onestight and let's go!
You need these materials and tools:
- 6 paper plates
- 4 paper lace doilies
- White, pink and black craft paper
- 2 pieces of yarn or string, each about 40 cm long
- wooden stick
- tape
- Glue
- Booklets
- Scissors
- craft knife
- Flameless tea light
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Step-by-step instructions for making the lantern
Start with the top part of the lantern
Take a paper plate and cut out a circle in the middle. Using the craft knife or a knife, cut 4 openings in the frame of the paper plate (for the strings that will later be attached to the lantern). This paper plate will form the top part of the lantern.
Make the pages
Take four paper plates and cut a circle out of each one. Then glue a paper lace doily over each circle opening and allow the glue to dry. These four paper plates will form the sides of your lantern.
Assemble the lantern
The six paper plates are now ready to be assembled: a top plate (which you made in Step 1), four lantern sides (which you made in Step 2), and another plate for the bottom. Staple these six paper plates together to create a box-shaped lantern.
Draw and cut out the rabbit's facial features
Now create the rabbit's face. Use black construction paper for the eyes, nose, and mouth; pink craft paper for the cheeks and white for the ears.
Experiment with your rabbit's facial features and expression and design the face to suit your taste!
Make the lantern handle
Take two pieces of yarn or string and tie a knot at the ends of each piece. Then pull the four knots through the four openings on the top plate of the lantern. Attach the strings to a wooden stick with tape.
Light the lantern made of paper plates
Turn on the flameless tea light, place it in the lantern and attach it to the base plate with adhesive tape.
Now the homemade lantern for the St. Martin's Day parade is ready! November 11th can come!
More ideas for paper plate lanterns
Your child doesn't like rabbits and wants a different animal on his lantern? No problem! You can use the instructions above and design the sides of the lantern like any animal you like. Whether a cute hedgehog, a unicorn, a bear or whatever your child loves, the round shape of the plates offers numerous possibilities.
Want more ideas? Then be sure to check out our othersInstructions for Saint Martin's lanternsto! We hope you enjoy crafting for St. Martin's Day!
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