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Paper pumpkin lantern: Simple Halloween crafting instructions with video and photos

Are you looking for a guide on how to craft a paper lantern in pumpkin shape for Halloween with your child? Then you've come to the right place! Halloween is that special holiday that kids adore - with spooky costumes, trick-or-treating, and of course, creating Halloween decorations together. Our children only grow up once, and the time when they want to craft with us flies by faster than we realize. Later on, it will be too late for these precious shared moments. We know how wonderful it is to create something creative with your child. That's why we have prepared this detailed step-by-step guide.

Paper Pumpkin Lantern: Step-by-Step Guide with Photos and Text Description

So that you can easily follow how this lovely paper pumpkin lantern is made, our guide includes a detailed video, photos for each step, and clear text descriptions. This way, you can easily follow along and know exactly what to do at each step.

Materials

For this Halloween pumpkin lantern, you will need:

  • Colored crafting paper (orange, red, black)
  • Scissors
  • A pencil
  • A ruler
  • An empty toilet paper roll (the cardboard tube)
  • Glue

You can easily find all of these materials in any supermarket's crafting and stationery department, or you may already have them at home. The toilet paper roll is a great example of upcycling! Since this is a kids' project, we intentionally avoided using complicated materials. Crafting Halloween decorations should be fun and easy to do!

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Step 1: Let's start with the basics. Prepare a cardboard tube left over from a toilet paper roll, some sheets of colorful paper in various colors, a pencil, a ruler, and scissors.
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Step 2: Cover our toilet paper roll with colored paper to hide the unsightly, uncolored cardboard. Next, take orange paper, a ruler, and a pencil. Draw lines as shown in the photo. I wouldn't make the width of the strips larger than one centimeter. It looks much better when the lines are 7-9 mm wide.
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Step 3: Now, you need to make slits with scissors or a craft knife, but it is important that the horizontal lines at the top and bottom are not cut through. This is very important. After making the slits, cover our cylinder with paper as shown in the video and photos.
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Step 4: Cut three thin strips from dark paper and also cut out eyes and a mouth for our pumpkin lantern. Glue black paper as a border at the top and bottom, make a handle for our lantern, and stick on the eyes and mouth. And done!

Paper Pumpkin Lantern: Benefits of Creative Crafting for Child Development

Crafting with hands offers amazing benefits for your child's development. The fine motor skills practiced through cutting, folding, and gluing are directly related to brain development. Scientific findings show that working with fingers in children stimulates the formation of important neural connections in the brain. These connections are fundamental for overall cognitive development.

As parents, it is our duty to nurture the development of our children so that they will have the best chances for a happy life in the future. This includes shared reading, mental tasks, balanced nutrition, and physical activities. However, as we can see, engaging in creative activities like making Halloween decorations is equally important. These creative processes not only enhance motor skills but also promote concentration, patience, and a healthy self-esteem.

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Paper Pumpkin Lantern: Thank You to Our Readers

All the guides on our website are created by us. To produce these photos and videos, we craft each project by hand, and knowing that our work is appreciated brings us joy. Your presence on our platform and finding this content interesting is the greatest reward for us. We thank you for your time and hope that you and your child will be successful when recreating this project.

If our tutorial has inspired you, take a look at our other tutorials on the topic of Origami, DIY ideas for children, or Napkin folding for festive table. At the time of publishing this article, we have created over 400 video tutorials and we have many more ideas in the pipeline. We wish you lots of joy in crafting and all the best!

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Vitalii Shynakov
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Vitalii Shynakov has been working in the areas of online retail, marketing and customer satisfaction since 2012. Until 2022, he was the head of personnel development and online sales department of four successful stores. He has been part of the TutKit.com team since 2024.