Chaos while making lanterns

Once again it was clear that I had to do everything just before the bang.

You can find out how our lanterns for the lantern parade turned out here.

There are a billion craft ideas for lanterns on the internet. So that the lantern parade becomes something really special! I had about a billion ideas in my head. I wanted to use a lantern made from old stuff that we had lying around. Totally creative .

Yes, but unfortunately things turned out completely differently than planned.

On the day we wanted to make the things at our son’s daycare, first our little one and then my husband and I got the norovirus . We were all laid up.

AfteChaos while making lanternsr recovering, the plan was to make the lantern at home . Unfortunately, I kept putting it off. As if to say: “It’s only in two weeks… a week… tomorrow!!!”

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The chaos begins…
Our little darling shouldn’t show up with us without a lantern . costa rica mobile database Luckily, my sister-in-law still had a lantern making kit * (owl version – really cute) left over that she hadn’t managed to make with her children.

So I prepared everything at home! There were even instructions! Nothing CAN go wrong!

Yes, it can, as I discovered.

To make sure the chaos could begin, the hot glue gun I bought especially for the occasion was leaking and was leaking everywhere. It was a mess! And an even bigger mess to clean the whole thing.

Chaos when making lanterns – glue residue

Only when this construction site was finished could I devote myself to my actual construction site: crafting. Let’s get started! It can’t get any worse!

Rejoiced too soon
You can now open a bag of popcorn – what follows is worthy of a movie.

Because: It can get even worse! Namely if you – like me – have playground on suhler straße prepared too much and have already put the “outer frame” together. In other words, without the colored foil, which logically would have had to be glued in beforehand.

Unfortunately, I was too lazy to take everything apart again (it takes a lot of time and effort, doesn’t it?), which made the whole thing even more complicated.

I put the glue from our hot glue gun on the inside, but noticed dy leads that the foil I had cut out was a bit too big. It didn’t fit in. So I quickly squeezed the foil in so that the glue didn’t harden.

Unfortunately, it didn’t look very good, as I realized when I took a closer look at my masterpiece. Everything was crumpled and wavy and just looked yucky. So I tried to remove the foil from the adhesive.