Kids' Lantern

Make the body of the kids' lantern

• Cut the milk carton near the top.

• Cut out 2 large rectangles in sides that are opposite each other. 

• Paint with your finger around the edges of the sides you have just cut the rectangle from.

• Stick the white corrugated paper (or white card) on the remaining sides using a glue gun.

Make the panda for the kids' lantern

• Draw your very own panda or print the one below.

• Place the drawing of the panda on the white piece of card.

• Retrace the outline of the panda with the pen, making sure you press down hard to leave an outline on the card that you can draw on.
  

• Draw the panda again on the other side of the card, using the trace outline as your guide.

• Draw the features of the panda on the card. 

• Cut out the different shapes.

• Stick them to the paper version that you drew before.

• Color the cheeks, the inside of the ears and the eyes.

• Draw:

  • a thin line around the nose to show the difference between the nose and the eyes.

  • the mouth and the eyebrows with the waterproof felt-tip pen.

• Paint on 2 small points in the eyes with white paint. 

• Cut out the inside bit of the body, leaving 2cm around the edge.

• Stick on the transparent paper using the glue stick.

Finishing touches of the kids lantern:

• Make 2 holes in the side of the milk carton using the point of some scissors.

• Pass the wire through the holes.

• Stick on the bamboo and leaves to the panda using the gluegun.

• Put a candle inside the lantern.