DIY Easy Chinese Fish Lanterns made from Red Packets | Make your own Chinese New Year Decorations!

CHINESE NEW YEAR (LUNAR NEW YEAR) SERIES - Lucky Fish Lanterns made from Red Packets

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After collecting a lot of red envelopes/lai see/ red packets/ red pockets/ hong bao/ lucky envelopes, let's reuse them to make some really nice lucky fish lanterns to celebrate Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year.

Fish is a very auspicious symbol during Chinese New Year because the sound of fish means abundance/plentiful and extra, meaning that if you eat fish, you will have everything you need in abundance for the new year. This is why you see a lot of fish decorations during Lunar New Year. Why not make our own fish decorations to decorate the house with?

This lantern is bested for those maybe 10 years old and up, if you're looking for a simpler alternative, we have a DIY 5 minutes lucky envelope lantern that is much easier. This fish lantern, will take 10 envelopes to make and will take about 30 mins of your time. We have the you can use glue, hot gun, tape, double sided tape and a stapler, and we found that the mini stapler was the easiest, though in my sample fish, I did use a bit of double sided tape as well for the hard to reach areas.

Level: INTERMEDIATE
Age: 8+ (Adult supervision needed! Parents, you know what's best for your kids.)
Time: 30 mins

Materials for 1 Fish Red Packet Chinese Lantern:
10 x lucky envelopes
Mini stapler (glue, hot gun, double sided tape or tape as alternatives)
Ribbon
Scissors
1 x tassel
Ruler
Goggly eyes (or just draw it on)

Steps:

Start | 0:00
Supplies | 0:50
Step 1: Cut the envelopes to 13cm in length | 1:59
Step 2: Fold all 10 envelopes to the same base shape | 2:14
Step 3: HEAD | 3:07
Step 4: BODY | 3:45
Step 5: BUM | 6:56
Streamlined Fish Bum | 7:13
Nemo Fish Bum | 8:48
Step 6: TAIL | 10:36
Streamlined Fish Tail | 11:24
Nemo Fish Tail | 11:49
Step 7: EYES | 12:20
Step 8: HANG IT | 12:49
Step 9: TASSELS | 13:13

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@midala40 2 years ago

Happy New Year.

@aha_fitness 2 years ago

This was aesthetically very joyful ❤️

@dominichill1492 2 years ago

Those are some beautiful Chinese New Year envelopes. The color red is seen a straight. Thank you so much for sharing this with us Virginia. You have always been good at content creation in my opinion.