How To Make Diwali Lanterns (Step By Step)

Diwali, a festival of light, fun, and happiness. These days, due to holidays, are you trying to make Diwali Lantern at home? If yes, then you should definitely try our simple yet beautiful Diwali lantern. 

What is a Diwali Lantern (Kandeel)?

Lantern or commonly known as Kandeel is nothing but a wooden framework that is covered with glossy paper for giving different types of colorful light.

It is mostly used to illuminate the frontal area of the house. Hence, they are generally hung in front of the main door of the house.

How to Make Diwali Lanterns Step By Step

Here I had written a step-by-step guide for making Diwali Lantern with paper.

Before we start making our Lantern, let’s discuss the things which are necessary in making the beautiful Diwali Lantern.

Things Required For Making Diwali Lantern

• Scissor – For Cutting Paper
• Ruler – For Straight Line
• Fevicol / Glue – For Sticking the Paper
• Pencil – For drawing basic sketch.
• Decorating Tape – For Decoration Purpose
• Two A4 Size Papers – Blue & Yellow (You can take any papers of two different colors according to your will)

If you don’t have any of these things then you will buy them from your nearest shop or buy them online. But I will tell you one thing before you buy them and that is the Diwali sale. 

Almost all stores are providing good Diwali discount offers on there all products. Stores like Amazon and Flipkart, Amazon starts a Great Indian Festival Sale and Flipkart starts a Big Billion Day Sale. 

So my suggestion is you must buy all of your required products online and make your lanterns at less price.

Steps For Making Diwali Lantern

This is how it looks like this in the end. So if you want to make this lantern for Diwali then you just need to follow these steps.

Total Time Required 10 minutes

Step 1)

Take the first paper (yellow in our case) and fold it in half as shown in the picture below.

Step 2)

Cut the paper in the vertical direction from the folded end at a distance of 1-1.5 cm, leaving some area at the free end.

Step 3)

Now take another paper (Blue in our case) and apply fevicol / glue in one of the horizontal direction as shown in the picture below.

Step 4)

Cut one petal of the yellow paper (you’ll understand this why we cut one extra petal).

Step 5)

Now stick one end of yellow paper to the blue paper’s one end as shown in the picture below.

Step 6)

Now apply fevicol / glue on the other horizontal side of the blue paper at a distance of 3-4 cm from the end as shown in the picture below.

Step 7)

Stick the other horizontal end of the yellow paper to the blue paper where we applied fevicol / glue in the above step.

Step 8)

Cut the extra blue part carefully and keep it aside for further use.

Step 9)

For decorating purposes, you can apply decorating tape to both the horizontal end of the papers sticked together.

Step 10)

Now apply glue at the extra part of blue paper in vertical direction as shown in the picture below.

Step 11)

Try to make a cylinder of the sticked papers as shown in the picture below.

Step 12)

And then carefully stick one end to the portion where we applied fevicol / glue.

Step 13)

Take the strip of blue paper which we kept aside in the step 8 and apply glue at both of its end.

Step 14)

And stick it to the top of the lantern cylinder as a handle to hang it outdoors.

Step 15)

That’s it, your lantern is ready. Stick one lamp in it and switch on the button and enlighten your door.

So, I hope you understood every single step of making Diwali Lantern. Still, if you’ve any doubts then you ask us in the comment section. We will try our best to solve your doubt.