12 Jan 2017
Thinking of beautifying your home to welcome guests this Chinese New Year? Try out these DIY festive decorations hand-made by team ERA. Happy Chinese New Year from all of us at ERA!
Challenge 1: DIY CNY Red Packet Basket |
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 | Step 1: Firstly, you will need 6 vertically long red packets. (Size of ang bao used in the picture is 16.5cm by 8.9cm) |
 | Step 2: Cut out 6 card boards suitable to be inserted into the red packets. (Card board size: 16.3cm x 8.5cm, 0.3cm thick) |
 | Step 3: Use a cellophane tape to stick red packets all together after you have inserted all the cardboards into the red packets. |
 | After sticking them altogether, the body of your basket is done! |
 | Step 4: Cut a hexagon shape out of any cardboard (for instance, a Mandarin Orange box), and wrap it with any design |
 | Step 5: Place your hexagon board on the top of the basket and stick it the flaps of the red packet. |
 | Step 6: Roll 6 pieces of gold-coloured red packets and glue the ends together. |
 | The rolled-up gold-coloured red packets should look like these. |
 | Step 7: Stick them using glue around the base edges of your basket. |
 | Step 8: Fold two red packets into fans and glue them together. You will need to make 6 sets to decorate each side of the basket. |
 | Step 9: Cut a long strip from a cardboard to form your basket handle and wrapped it any red paper. |
 | Step 10 (final): Stick the handle onto the inner side of the basket including the fans that you have made in step 8 and your DIY CNY basket is done! |
Inspired from: www.submerryn.com/2016/02/diy-chinese-new-year-angpow-basket.html
Challenge 2: DIY CNY Star Lantern |
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 | Step 1: Fold a vertically long red packet into half (Size of red packet – 16.2cm by 8.2cm). |
 | Step 2: Unfold from Step 1 and fold the red packet into half again horizontally. |
 | Step 3: Unfold from Step 2 and fold the corners of the red packet similar to the picture shown. Ensure that the ends meet the marks that you have folded in Steps 1 and 2. |
 | Ensure that your red packet is folded on all 4 corners. |
 | Step 4: Repeat steps 1 to 3 for 14 red packets. |
 | Step 5: Staple or glue 7 of the red packets to form a star shape. |
 | Step 6: Repeat step 5 for the other side of the star. |
 | Step 7 (final): Staple the 2 sets together and your lovely lucky star lantern is ready for display! |
Inspired from: www.submerryn.com/2011/01/red-packet-star-lantern.html
 Challenge 3: DIY CNY Flower Lantern |
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 | Step 1: This lantern requires patterned papers or square red packets. Ensure that you have 60 pieces of paper sized 3 inch x 3 inch. |
 | Step 2: Choose one side of the square and stick the scotch tape along the side as shown in the picture. |
 | Step 3: Fold the adjacent side of the square paper and stick the sides together into a cone. |
 | Step 4: Make a “flower” with five of the cones by sticking them side by side. |
 | To make a full lantern, you will need 12 of such flowers. |
 | Step 5: Assemble half of the lantern using 6 flowers that you have made in step 4 and you will form a semi-circle. Make 2 of these sets. |
| Step 6 (final): Connect the 2 semi-circles made in step 5 together and you have a pretty flower lantern for your home! |
Inspired from: xavvy-licious.blogspot.sg/2014/01/step-by-step-guide-in-making-lantern.html
