Adding Glue Tabs to a Paper Lantern

Adding Glue Tabs to a Paper Lantern
Hi. I'm Melina and welcome to Expert Village. Today we're going to learn how to make a paper star lantern. In this next step, we're going to add the fold lines that we're going to use to join our star points together. So what you're going to do is, you're going to start at the point of your star and you're going to come out at an angle. You're going to come out about a half an inch. You're not going to come out straight across. You're going to come out a little bit slanted. Just like this. You're then going to take your ruler and you're going to measure down to this other point, but you're going to come about a half an inch. Before you reach it, you're going to stop and you're going to be about, probably a fourth of an inch, a fourth of an inch, a little bit over a fourth of an inch from your start edge. You're just going to take your pencil, go like this and stop about half an inch away. When you get half an inch away, you're going to take your ruler and you're going to measure down to this point. This is the flap that we're going to use to stick one star to another. The next thing, we're going to take our ruler and we're going to measure. We're going to do the same thing that we did up here and you're going to start from this point. You're going to go out about a half an inch, and these are just the flaps that we're going to use to stick our stars together, so if they're not exactly the same on both sides, it's not really a big deal. This is all going to be hidden. So, once you come out, you?re going to start at the end of the line. You're going to draw into the center fold and you're going to do the same thing on both sides until you come in, until they reach together in the middle and then you're going to draw another line. We're going to repeat this pattern five different times. Normally if you were doing something like this, you could make a copy in the copy machine, but since you're using parchment paper, you're not going to be able to do it in a copy machine. So we're just going to trace the drawing that we have underneath and if you've pressed down hard enough, it should be able to come through. You should be able to see where your drawing is. And another way to do this is if you have tracing paper. That could be very helpful. You would just draw your original drawing, you would press into it with tracing paper underneath and it would copy onto the tracing paper and then you could use that tracing paper to copy onto each paper.