Crafting with waste: milk carton lantern
The cutest lantern you can make yourself! And Guess what? This one is free too, because chances are you already have everything you need. In short, double the fun for Saint Martin and Saint Nicholas and make a lantern together with your kid(s). It became and owl from an empty milk carton, but you can make many more animals!
Tools
- empty carton of (vegetable) milk
- piece of cardboard
- coloured magazine pages
- bottle tops or beer caps
- coloured tissue paper or kite paper(e.g. from a shoebox)
- white craft glue
- pen
- scissors
- markers or paints
- glue (gun)
Instructions
- Rinse the suit well and loosen the side flaps.
- The belly: draw a circle on the front with a pen, just slightly below the centre. You can use a cup or a lid as a template.
- The wings: draw a drop shape on both sides, with the tip pointing upwards. The bottom is about to the height of the belly.
- Cut out the round and both drop shapes. Using the tip of the scissors, make a small hole in the centre of the round to cut it out neatly.
- Tear the magazine pages into small pieces, the more colour the better!
- Glue the pieces of paper to the suit with the white glue, also glue them around the opening of the belly and wings and glue the overhanging pieces towards the inside. Then let it dry.
- Cut the kite paper into the same shape as the belly and wings but slightly larger (1 cm all around). Then glue this over the openings.
- From the cardboard packaging, cut 2 rounds for the eyes. You can use a cup or a lid as a template. Also cut a drop shape for the beak. Give the eyes and beak a nice colour.
- Using the glue gun, glue the caps onto the rounds of the eyes.
- Cut 2 small rounds from the cardboard, make them black and put a white dot in them. Stick these into the caps with the glue gun.
- Glue the beak and eyes to the suit.
- I used LED lights I still had, pushed them through the opening of the pack and secured them by screwing the cap back on. I made a hole in the middle of the pack at the top to thread a ribbon through to hold the lantern. Of course, you can also attach a lantern light to it.