Articles
Easy steps to making your own flying lantern | SMB Information.com
  • Easy steps to making your own flying lantern

    Flying lanterns were first introduced by Chinese few thousand years ago. At that time flying lanterns were made of bamboo hoops and to give it a looped shape, paper was attached to it. Hot air from the bottom used to keep it moving upwards and that hot air was from a source called candle. Today the flying lantern we see is much the similar to the once used in China few thousand years ago. Only a few features have been changed to enhance the safety element. In the olden times these flying paper lanterns and wedding products were used to send messages to the armies but writing message on the paper and sending it in the skies, but now this trend is also changed. Now many people use this for sending wishes and regards to their loved ones in the skies.

    You can buy paper lanterns from any paper lantern wholesale. However, here are few tips buy, which you can very easily make your own paper lantern and that too at your home. Just take 3- 4 tissue papers and spray the fire proofing chemical to them at leave them to dry.

    Blue Glass Moroccan Lantern

    Now with the help of glue stick the sprayed tissue papers with the simple tissues horizontally. Now you need to make four half mittens with the help of the tissues used. Join these four halves with the help of an adhesive tape and you can adjust your shape according to your satisfaction but for that, you should not stick the tape early.

    This would leave you with a cylindrical shaped that would be closed from one end and would be open from the other. The opened end would be your bottom. Now for the bottom to be a taut, you need bamboo hoop, which should be bendable to glue it in the shape of the bottom. Now using a wire staple two pieces in X shape and make a cup of aluminum foil. Put some cotton in it and soak it in alcohol. Now fire the cotton and gently leave the lantern in the sky. Your flying paper lantern is ready.

    Related Articles:

    Published on · Filed under: Home and Family; Tagged as: ,
    No Comments

Leave a Reply

Spam protection by WP Captcha-Free