Lantern Making

Well it's almost time for the Winter Solstice so we had to get busy and make our lanterns.  It's a bit late to find Autumn leaves but we still wanted to make lanterns which incorporated them. 

The first step was to prepare our paper for the lanterns.

Then we had to go in search of wonderful coloured leaves.

Not many left on the trees!

But we managed to find some.

Then it was time to encase them in wax!

Trace around each leaf.

Cut out the shapes!

Then put them together with some glue.

And if you're Aishlyn decide that it needs to look just as pretty on the inside and do that again.

Outside

Inside

Cut out a base, snip the bottom

and glue it all together!

Then make a twisty.

A lantern all ready for our Winter Festival!