Paper lanterns have always been simple and colorful holiday decorations for all peoples. It's pretty easy to make a flashlight yourself. Let's look at simple but interesting models.
The Christmas tree toy "flashlight" should be elegant and light. For its manufacture, we take colored paper, PVA glue and scissors. Cut out a rectangle 150 mm wide and 200 mm long from colored paper and glue the sides 150 mm long. Put the resulting cylinder on colored paper with its bottom, draw a circle around the base of the cylinder and cut out two of the same. We cut both free edges of our structure into strips to a depth of 5 mm. Bending the resulting fringe inward, smear it with glue and glue the cut circles. We will make a loop out of an elegant thread and glue it to the bottom of the blank. For this thread, we will hang a flashlight on the tree. It remains to decorate by pasting shiny tinsel, stars or other details.
Let's make a more complex flashlight for the garland. Let's prepare two sheets of double-sided colored paper. A rectangle measuring 150 mm by 200 mm, and a square with a side of 200 mm. We glue a cylindrical workpiece from a rectangle, 150 mm high. On a square piece of paper, above and below, draw a line at a distance of one centimeter from the edge. Fold the square in half, cut the sheet into strips, from the side of the fold, to the drawn line. Having expanded the sheet, we fix the uncut parts of the square on the upper and lower edges of the cylindrical blank. Attach a loop so that you can hang the flashlight and decorate it with threads, beads and confetti. The square part of the flashlight can be cut not with a fringe, but with an openwork cut pattern.
You can also make a backlit Christmas tree flashlight. Let's take a few sheets of double-sided colored paper. From one sheet, we cut a rectangular blank 150 mm by 200 mm, draw a line from above and below at a distance of 20 mm from the edge. We bend the rectangle in half, from the bend side we cut into strips 20 mm wide to the marked line, cutting them from one side along the line by 10 mm. Expand the blank sheet and bend the cut pieces to one side. Let's draw on a free piece of paper an entertaining figure, 110 mm high, and cut out ten of them. Gently glue the figures onto the bent parts of the workpiece. We glue the ends of the workpiece in width. We attach a bright ribbon or shiny thread to one edge of the flashlight, for which we will hang it on the Christmas tree. When we hang up the flashlight, put the light bulb from the garland in the middle, then your flashlight will glow.
