Hi everyone, and welcome back to Curious By Nature.
My name is Airen and today we're going to learn how to make a fall-themed lantern
using materials from around the house with our friend and artist, Katherine Lampert.
Let's see what she's got for us.
Today, we're going to be making fall leaf lanterns.
The supplies that you're going to need are a mason jar, contact paper, an electric tea light, and fall leaves.
So you'll want to go for a nature walk and collect as many beautiful, brightly colored fall leaves as you can find.
I'm going to start with my contact paper, which is basically just a clear sticky back paper
that has a protective paper on it that you peel off.
And it comes in sometimes different patterns,
so be sure if you're buying this that you find the one that is completely clear with no pattern on it.
I'm going to lay my mason jar down.
This is a little bit like you're going to be wrapping a present.
You can be super precise with your measurements if you want,
but I feel like the easiest way to do it is to just take a pencil and kind of mark where you want your image to cut off.
So I'm going to make my contact paper just a little bit lower than the full height of the mason jar.
Then, keeping the contact paper attached to the mason jar, I'm gonna roll it.
This is really just to measure out, so I'm gonna make it a little bigger than I need to
in case I need to cut it down later.
I feel like that's always a good idea with almost everything.
Unroll it.
And this contact paper that I found is kind of nice because it has a grid on the back.
I'm just going to cut along the dotted lines that they've sort of already provided.
Now that I have my paper cut out, I'm just gonna make sure that it fits, that I like the size, I do.
So I'll set my jar aside,
and this is the kind of tricky part, peeling the paper off the back.
And I'm going to find my most exciting colorful leaves,
and put them colorful side face down on the sticky part,
because I want the color to be showing on the outside of the jar.
You can arrange them in any kind of pattern you want.
I am doing sort of a more of a random pattern,
but if you want to make a mandala or something,
you get to be the artist.
I found these hydrangeas that were just starting to turn, so I thought they would be pretty also.
It's a good idea to leave some space between your leaves so that there's some sticky paper exposed
so that your leaves stick to your mason jar.
You're just going to start at one end
and gently wrap the mason jar in your creation.
Then take your electric tea light, turn it on, and pop it in.
So I love the way these lanterns glow when you bring them into a dark room.
They make a beautiful night light or for sitting outside in the evening.
The colors from the fall leaves just really glow.
That's our show for today.
Thank you so much for joining us.
I hope you enjoyed learning how to make lanterns with Katherine,
and be sure to leave questions in the comments and send us a picture on social media of your designs.
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