diy lanterns for childrens room

I love the idea of paper lanterns, there is so much you can do with them. I am doing a conglomerate of different styles for my nursery.
materials include: decorative paper, scissors, elmers glue, tissue paper, paper lantern

This is the end product. These are from paper lanterns bought at walmart for a dollar! I got several white ones, and green ones too. I bought One overly large one from ikea for $5. Start with long strips of tissue paper.

You can stack round, square, heart, any shape to these lanterns, I chose circles and tear drop shapes. Simply glue from the bottom first and over lap toward the top of the lantern. I added simple circles to the very bottom to give it more from the under view, since these will hang from the ceiling with fishing line. I am creating about 5 of these sized, then ONE LARGE 10" lantern covered in colorful flags and pennants.

Other lanterns (flags and pennants):
Materials: 10" paper lantern, scissors, hot glue, differnent colored paper, ribbon, thread of any color.

I started by cutting out long strips of paper, different patterns

I cut them into 2"x1" triangles. Smaller ones to overlap as they are going to be on my 10" lantern.

next I lined them up on a ribbon, alternating patterns, using my hot glue gun I placed glue on both sides of the triangle. Then, pressed the ribbon binding the triangles.

As a detail I choose to hand sew brite blue thread through the orange ribbon. Along with this I also sewed the triangles, together.

I used sewing pins to position the flags. I draped and overlapped them in a few places. once I decided where to place them with the pins, I super glued flags down in only a few places allowing for the draping to be organic looking. VOILA! Your large pennant and flag lantern.