Our Fun Lantern DIY With Doodle Crate · Craftwhack

Kiwi Co sent me a Putter Crate to try out and I'm going to tell you all virtually it.

You've most likely heard of their Kiwi Crate, the art project in a box phenomenon that popped on the scene in 2011, and it's since grown to include:

Tadpole Crate for 0-36 monthers

Koala Crate for 3-4 yrs old

Kiwi Crate (scientific discipline, art, and more) for v-8 yrs onetime

Atlas Crate (geography and civilisation) for 6-11 yrs old

Doodle Crate (art & design) for nine-16 yrs sometime +

Tinker Crate (scientific discipline & engineering) for 9-16 yrs old +

Eureka Crate for (engineering & design) 14-104 yrs old

(I guess you're out of luck if you're 105.)

Each crate comes complete with all the goodies you need to make a project, and yous tin choose from different subscriptions or gift options.

Now why, you may ask, do I indulge in pre-made activity boxes, when my brilliant mind produces zillions upon zillions of my own creative projects?

I'll tell you. Sometimes y'all only demand something fun and pre-idea-out to drop onto your doorstep, waiting for yous to open it and explore the wonderful contents within.

Right? Subscription boxes are the flop. Kiwi Co makes super high-quality, uniquely creative subscription boxes that include everything you demand for at least one projection, plus you can reuse the supplies they send for future projects.

What We Made

Here are the supplies that I pulled out of the box nosotros got. Y'all can see by the pamphlet that they are all the ingredients you need to make some piffling embossed paper lanterns. Then nosotros did.

This lantern project was inspired by the beautiful metallic lanterns of Morocco, and the lantern carte stock had a slight metallic sheen to it.

I enlisted the help of my small-scale friend Beckett, he enlisted the help of his small friend Porg, and nosotros got to work embossing. That wooden tool is the embosser, and y'all lay the individual lanterns over the stencil-looking pieces to rub the pattern into them.

Beckett and Porg left me to emboss the balance. I had fun deciding on the designs, but I may have developed a big blister on my finger due to overzealous embossing.

After embossing, nosotros used the clever fiddling hole dial to punch out designs for the lights to shine through the lanterns.

Then I folded the lanterns onto each fiddling lightbulb on the cord of fairy lights.

Ta-dah! Finished product:

Cool, huh? And since my mind goes a mile a minute when I'm working on creative projects, I idea up some more fun ideas based on these lanterns:

• Reuse the embossing templates as stencils
• Emboss dissimilar colors of card stock over them to make cards
• Practise crayon or oil pastel rubbings over them with white carte stock
• We didn't utilise the tiny colored tissue paper samples they provided, so you could utilize those for collage
• The embossing tool would make a perfect incising tool for watercolor projects.

Dear the thought of DIY lanterns? Endeavor your paw at my orb lantern made with old book pages.

Happy making!

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