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- Hello everybody. This is Amaranta Sandys,
and today we are going to
make some red Chinese lanterns.
I wanted to do this project,
just to bring light into your house.
I love to do lanterns,
this is probably one of the easiest ones.
So, the materials that you are gonna need
to do this project are the following.
And I'm just gonna place this little guy right here.
We're gonna need one sheet of red paper
or any paper that you like,
construction or card stock is fine.
Same with, um, it could be just printer paper,
or just the different paper.
But just two sheets of paper,
ruler, glue, a stapler, scissors,
and if you wanna decorate your lantern,
or just the top of this,
you can have some markers or colors.
So, the first thing you're gonna do,
I'm gonna place my supplies over here.
You wanna fold this in half.
I know some features have these folds,
like hot dog, and hamburger,
so I think this is the hot dog fold,
I'm gonna fold it really really nicely here.
And then you gonna bring your ruler,
and make sure you place your ruler where the
where the paper opens right here.
Cause if you place it on the other side,
it's not gonna work.
So place your ruler,
and then just align your ruler and draw a line.
Then you are going to measure this
at one inch.
On one side,
and one inch at the other side,
and then you are going to
connect the dots.
So it's even one inch here,
one inch there,
okay, then with your scissors,
you're going to cut
where the lines are.
And again, you can use an 8 by 10 paper,
construction paper,
just a white piece of paper and color it,
or construction paper.
Once you open it up,
you're gonna find this.
you could,
draw another line in here,
but it's not necessary,
then we need to get some stripes.
We can place this on top of the lantern,
and then we can also have a handle.
So I'm just going to do this and cut it,
and I already have my little strips.
Cut it, and I'm gonna get some glue in here,
I'm going to add a little bit
it could be a liquid glue,
or just a regular glue.
I'm gonna (mumbles) one side in here,
and place it,
make sure to align that,
and then I'm gonna do this inside.
I'm gonna do the other side,
just a little bit of glue.
It could be one and a half inch,
If you wanna be more precise.
Cause that's the width of the ruler.
If you want,
you could do some patterns in here,
you can do,
you know, some decorations,
maybe you can do three diagonal lines,
to the left and to the right,
same on the other side.
If you have some golden markers,
it goes really well because it says that
red it's a lucky number,
for the Chinese culture,
and also golden.
It's another color that they use.
Okay, so once I have this,
I'm going to fold it,
fold it,
you could glue it,
but, I think it's best if you just staple this.
Make sure to ask a grownup for help,
I'm gonna do it twice here,
and twice
I usually go over just a little bit.
And give her a little bend,
and we're gonna use this.
Actually we're gonna use this one to fold it like this.
Get the staple right here,
Just to give it one little...
one right there,
and one on the other side.
And again, this is just one color,
you could try to play with the rainbow colors,
you can try to have
just you know,
like a whole you know,
banner of a red lantern.
So anyway, thank you for watching.
This is a very simple project,
and I hope to see you again.
Thank you.
Bye.
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