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Quick Craft Post: Halloween Lanterns (vlog)

20 October 2011 26 Comments

A quick and fun Halloween Craft for you – the tissue paper jar lanterns. I am not surprised that these are so popular in the U.S. they are fun, easy and quick to make… as well as being nice and safe for small hands too!

Materials: Clean Jam Jar (the bigger the better), orange tissue paper (I recycled some from a present), decoupage glue or PVA watered down, black paper, paint brush, candle

Vlog first appeared on BritMums.

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maria said:

Love your lanterns!

# 20 October 2011 at 8:40 am

Red Ted Art (author) said:

Aaah thanks Maria – as you are the Queen of Recycled crafts, I thought you may like that it was all recycled

# 20 October 2011 at 8:49 am

ScienceSparks said:

Too cute! What a gorgeous little man you have. Love the vlog. Can you buy that glue from craft shops or online? They are very effective x

# 20 October 2011 at 9:47 am

Red Ted Art (author) said:

Yes you can buy it on Amazon http://astore.amazon.co.uk/retear-21/detail/B004BPSWOQ

# 20 October 2011 at 10:48 am

Julia Deering said:

Love the vlog!

Great idea for lanterns. We made some from recycled water bottles, tissue and cellophane pieces and a used battery operated tea-light. I made them with some under 5s at the Geffrye Museum (where we weren’t allowed real flame, of course.) We even made little carry handles from ribbon. They weren’t scary/jack-o-lanterns but they so could be. x

# 20 October 2011 at 5:59 pm

Red Ted Art (author) said:

They sound GORGEOUS! And was thinking of making some with electrical tea lights too.. then the kids can carry them around. Lovely!

# 20 October 2011 at 6:13 pm

Ruth - The Pink Whisk said:

These are fab! That’s another half term activity to add to the list thank you! Xx

# 20 October 2011 at 9:16 pm

Domestic goddesque said:

Brilliant! What a talented bunch you are!

# 21 October 2011 at 5:36 am

Liz Burton said:

So cute! RedTed is a star!

We have something similar coming to the blog today ;0)

# 21 October 2011 at 9:13 am

gemma said:

Great!!!
We will definitely be making these in the week. I agree, what a gorgeous little man you have.xxx

# 21 October 2011 at 2:03 pm

Red Ted Art (author) said:

Aaaah thank you all for lovely sweet comments… of course I am *super proud* of Red Ted, he did so well…

# 21 October 2011 at 4:32 pm

beth said:

Super cute! I would love for you to link up at http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/search/label/Linkey%20Parties

# 21 October 2011 at 7:08 pm

Red Ted Art (author) said:

Done!

# 22 October 2011 at 7:05 am

Mummy..Mummy..MUM!! said:

oooh LOVE those, and the vlog. FAB! and little Red Ted is brilliant! He’ll be making his own soon

# 23 October 2011 at 7:42 pm

Red Ted Art (author) said:

Oh yes – once he is ok with “dirty fingers”, he will be fab.. but right now he doesn’t like to get messy. Surprisingly, he gets messy rather a lot… Mmmh, how does that work?!?!?

# 23 October 2011 at 7:53 pm

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# 24 October 2011 at 12:08 pm

Ally said:

These are great! We made some with goblins and ghosts too!

# 24 October 2011 at 4:46 pm

natalie pozniak said:

What a great idea. I should do this for next Halloween.

# 25 October 2011 at 1:12 am

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# 25 October 2011 at 8:25 am

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# 25 October 2011 at 10:44 am

Sadie said:

I do like these. I think we’ll use this technique for one of our Martinmas lanterns.

# 25 October 2011 at 5:01 pm

Aimee said:

Great VLOG- we made these last year- aren’t they fun? Thank you for sharing your ideas with us on The Sunday Showcase It is great to have you there!

# 25 October 2011 at 5:33 pm

Annie said:

Oh this is right up my street! dinners late tonight dear -I have lanterns to make!

# 26 October 2011 at 3:00 pm

Michelle Breum said:

I love these! We’ll be making some at our house. I’m going to share this post in a few places online. Share some Halloween Joy!

# 26 October 2011 at 10:19 pm

crittersandcrayons said:

As soon as I saw this, I went back and fished out the mason jars my husband threw away (we don’t have glass recycling here)….we are totally doing this! And, thanks for the link up at the Halloween Blog-Hop! There is a badge in my blog’s left margin if you want to grab it! Thanks, again!

# 27 October 2011 at 5:39 am

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# 10 November 2011 at 7:33 pm