A colourful autumn leaf is the motif of this lantern. This small lantern is very easy to craft and the colorful autumn leaf is already the largest and most elaborate action.? A small but very enchanting idea for the autumn.
Complete instructions are required twice.
Take two cardboard plates and make the front and back of your lantern.
First cut a circle out of both cardboard plates.
Find a nice maple leaf. You place it in the middle on a sheet of paper. Then you paint around the leaf with a crayon.
Now put the sheet aside. You now have the outline of the sheet.
Now you paint the veins of the leaf. Look at your leaf and take it as a template. The children learn to observe and know the structure of the leaf.
Then paints the further branched veins of the leaf.
Individual fields are created.
All these fields are now painted with the crayons in the different autumn colors.
Then you paint the background of the leaf with a bright color.
Put the cardboard plate over your painting and cut the painting round. Just border the cardboard plate.
Now you paint the frame in the autumn leaf as well.
If the colors change, a beautiful pattern is created.
Now, with a brush, apply some edible oil to your painting on the back, making your painting transparent.
At the end, remove the excess oil with a kitchen crepe or handkerchief.
Put the paper to dry.
The dried painting now sticks to her frame.
Use the hot glue gun. Attention: do not glue the cardboard plates together in all places. Leave an approximately 8cm wide edge open.
Through the opening you can later put your light source (e.g. mini-light chain) into the lantern.
Before that, you hole two holes in the opposite sides of the upper, open edge with a hole. Then you push a wire through the holes that you twist at the ends. You can attach a lantern rod to this wire.
Have fun with your lantern!