(1) Lantern skeleton: some cardboard (waste packaging box) and color copy paper.

(2) Exterior decoration of lanterns: some red cardboard (the bigger the better, or other red wrapping paper), three cartoon New Year pictures (stickers), three greeting cards, six paper cores, some red Spring Festival couplets (couplets), diamond stickers, Fu Zi stickers, Chinese knots (purchased or homemade) and so on.

(3) Tool materials: scissors, paper cutter, wide adhesive tape, double-sided adhesive tape, glue, glue stick, rope, etc.

2. Manufacturing process:

(1) Make lantern skeleton.

Because it is a double hexagonal palace lantern, the most important thing is to build a skeleton, which can be divided into two parts:

Make the lantern skeleton first. Splice 12 rectangular cardboard sheets with the same size vertically in sequence and stick them firmly. The size of each skeleton depends on the size of the lantern. This is a big lantern with a skeleton about the size of an ordinary greeting card.

Then make the upper lantern skeleton. Cut out 12 pieces of rectangular cardboard with the same size, splice them horizontally and stick them firmly. The size of each skeleton should be coordinated with the lantern skeleton below.

(2) Exterior decoration of upper and lower lanterns

The lanterns below are the main ones, and the exterior decoration should be exquisite and shiny. Of course, red lanterns are the best. So paste the bottom six loaves of bread with bright red cardboard. There are different patterns on six sides, namely, three Year of the Sheep stickers and three three-dimensional greeting cards.

Bottom decoration of lanterns: seal the decoration of lanterns with ready-made golden blessing stickers, and then tie Chinese knots as the bottom decoration.

Exterior decoration of lighting: auspicious greetings and auspicious cloud patterns are printed on cardboard respectively, and then pasted firmly in turn. If children like it, they can also put colorful and shiny diamond stickers on the outside of the lanterns. Under the light, lanterns are more brilliant.

The upper lantern is decorated with six flying corners: self-made red tassels (tassels) attached to the flying corners. Decorate the top of the upper lantern: Cover the top of the upper lantern with a red packaging bag (or other hard wrapping paper).

(3) Connecting the upper and lower lanterns: connect the upper and lower lanterns with colored or red thick ropes, and fix the bottom of the upper lantern skeleton with the top skeleton of the lower lantern. In this way, a red lantern is ready.