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Craft: Red Lantern
Chinese New Year: Red Lantern
The Chinese New Year, a 15-day festival that begins on the first full moon after January 21, is comprised of traditional games, gifts, parades and feasts. Traditionally, many families decorate their home on New Year’s Eve. To join in with this celebration you will be making a red lantern.
Red Lantern
At the conclusion of the Chinese New Year, a Lantern Festival is held and along with it, a parade that features a mammoth, float-like dragon made of silk and bamboo. As the dragon dances down the street, throngs of people join in, lighting the way with their lanterns. Since red is considered a lucky color among the Chinese, our paper lantern will be red.
Supplies
Construction paper: two red, one yellow scissors stapler (not included) ruler pencil marker
Instructions
Measure and cut off one-inch from the short end of the yellow paper and discard.
Roll the remaining yellow paper into a cylinder shape and secure with staples. This will be the lantern light.
Fold the red paper in half lengthwise. Starting at one end, draw a series of lines across the paper that measure 1-inch apart.
Lines should start at the fold and end approximately 1-inch from the opposite end. Cut through these lines.
Open the red paper, wrap it around the yellow cylinder, making sure the top and bottom edges line up; staple it in place. Measure and cut a one-inch strip from a different piece of red paper.
Write “Gung Hay Fat Choy” (which means “Happy New Year”) on the strip then staple it across the upper end of the lantern to become the handle.
Credit: Yearian, D.M. 2017, January 4. Craft of the Month: Chinese New Year Red Lantern. Retrieved from https://annarborfamily.com/columns/craft-of-the-month-chinese-new-year-red-lantern/
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