How Do You Make A Chinese Flying Lantern?
Chinese flying lanterns are also called floating lanterns. They are flown during holidays of every sort and just for fun. Many are still made from waxed paper with hard beeswax fuel to heat up air from underneath. Some are made from fire-resistant, reusable materials and have replaceable fuel. Chinese floating lanterns are called Paper UFOs in the United States, Chinese “Kongming Deng,” the Archemedes flying fortress and early hot hair balloons. Enlarge the pattern of your choice to the height that you want and print it. The patterns typically are drawn as half the design. The longest straight line on the pattern is the fold or center line. You place this line of the fold of your chosen material. Lay your tissue paper out on a clean, flat surface and then lay the pattern on top of the paper. If the tissue paper comes folded, leave it folded and place the fold line of the pattern on the fold line of paper. Holding down the pattern with food cans, take the rolling cutter and cut out the
