Happy
St. Patrick’s Day to everyone!
We’ve
done something a little different this week and we’ve made a paper lantern with
a St. Patrick’s Day theme.
We
used the Silhouette/cutting machine to make this but you can easily cut and
paste one yourself if you have the patience. If you’re using the Silhouette/cutting
machine, pick a lantern pattern and cut out of a primary green paper. The one
we chose had a heart/clover cut out pattern throughout it and the top had a
scalloped edge with punched holes. We thought that was super cute.
If
you are cutting it on your own, you can scallop the top edge free hand or with
a border punch or if you have scalloped scissors that would probably work best.
You can make the hearts with a heart shaped punch or you can make another
shape. You just want to make sure that you have some holes for the light to
shine through.
Then
we rolled it into a cylinder and glued the ends together. We used our glue tape
with some scotch tape on the inside, but it did come loose after a while so it
might be a good idea to use white glue or hot glue. An even better idea might
be to use construction paper or regular paper as the cardstock can be a bit
heavy for these sorts of things.
Next
Nicole cut some clovers out in a variety of greens that we had and then glued
them on the lantern.You can find a clover pattern and trace it and then cut it out.
Here
is the finished product with a battery operated tea light inside. Cute! You can
also put them in front of windows or just use them as decorative pieces.
*Please
make sure that you don’t use an actual tea light with an open flame inside.
This may start a fire which would be not good.
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