VIDEO: Make a lantern for St. Martin's Day

You only need a few to make a lantern with your children for St. Martin's Day Utils. Your children will certainly enjoy the handicraft work, which even the youngest can take part in.

Make a great lantern for Martin's Day

1. First of all, you need to Handcraft the lantern for St. Martin's Day a balloon (no matter what color, but the shape should be oval or round), which you should inflate and knot so that the air does not escape can.
2. You can then choose the transparent, but still colored, craft paper together with your child or children. Either you tinker with one color or it will be a brightly colored lantern for St. Martin's Day.
3. Now tear the transparent construction paper into small snippets (about half the size of the palm of your hand or smaller) and glue the balloon completely. The upper side of the balloon is the place that has the knot. So you can hold the balloon firmly when you stick it.
4. Now dip the individual scraps of craft paper into the colorless glue and glue them to the balloon. Start at the sides, but leave about 5 cm free at the top (towards the knot), which will not be pasted (very important!). Apply the transparent construction paper in about 2 to a maximum of 3 layers, otherwise this will happen The light does not come into its own afterwards and the lantern for St. Martin's Day looks more like a dim one Funzel.
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5. If the glue has hardened and is completely dry (you can determine this by carefully tapping the balloon), you can risk pricking the balloon with a pin. You should preferably stab directly next to the knot (very lightly), as the air escapes there more slowly. Otherwise it could be that with the bang of the balloon the upcoming Martin's lantern for St. Martin's Day breaks. A little instinct is needed.
6. Once the air has escaped and the balloon has loosened a little from the construction paper, you can now carefully remove it completely.
7. If the top of the lantern for St. Martin's Day is uneven (due to the ends of the snippets), you can easily straighten it out with sharp scissors. Then poke 2 holes for the wire on the right and left in the Martin’s lantern, pull the wire through and finally attach the rod with the light to it. Then you can let the Martin's lantern shine and your children too.