Halloween time indicates a number of activities that are full of enjoyment and excitement. Both the children as well as adults anticipate events like making Halloween masks, lanterns, and costumes and playing with the creative ideas. Lanterns give a festive look to the occasion.

Making Halloween lanterns is one of the simplest thing that may be tried by employing generally available material at home. While there’s no end to innovation and creative ideas, there are some time tested systems of making Halloween lanterns that are commonest. 3 great ideas for making Halloween lanterns are given below.

Halloween Lantern made from Empty Canisters

As the name implies, these are made out of empty canisters of paint, milk powder, cereals, and so on.

Material used – Beside empty canisters, the other material that may be needed is -a cutter or two scissors, black marking pen, colored paper, bulb holders, length of electrical wire, glue, etc .

System – First, draw the outline of a face on the canister and make holes for the mouth and eyes using the metal scissors or a cutter. Using the glue make a face by putting coloured paper on the outline of the face. You may use paint instead of coloured paper. Make a hole at the base of canister, and put the bulb holder with wire through that and your Halloween lantern and is prepared. You may also employ a candle instead of bulb and can either hang it or put in the garden with a stake by fixing the wooden piece on its base.

Halloween Lantern made from Pumpkin Or A water melon

The technique for making lanterns from pumpkin or water melon is almost the same as the one mentioned above except that in this example instead canisters you might use watermelon or pumpkin after cleaning the insides. Just draw a face and then make eyes and mouth by cutting those pieces. Instead of a light bulb, you may put the candle to give it an authentic look.

You can place it outside the house on a stake or a windowsill, or even on the dining table !

Since it is made from fresh plants, it tends to decay easily so make it only 1 night before Halloween.

Halloween Lantern Made With Paper Mache

Material used – you’ll need a gigantic balloon and material to make paper meshe besides the bulb holder, electrical cable, and something to hang the lantern.

Strategy –

First make paper meshe by mixing paper strips, flour, craft glue, and if you need some color you can add that too.
Blow the balloon to the size that you need and put a half in. coat of paper meshe all around it.

Leave it for drying overnite, and then pop the balloon. The basic shape of Lantern is now ready.

After you draw the eyes, then do the balance of the face features and color them as you wish and cut them out with assistance from scissors.

Never use candle since it might burn the lantern, instead employ a low voltage light bulb and makes an arrangement for hanging it or placing it flat on any surface. Your Lantern is now prepared.

These are the basic ideas. There isn’t any end to innovations and creativeness that we can try out. A Halloween lantern is so very easy to make and cheap. It also adds a touch festivities to your home.

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