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Making a Soda Can Lantern


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April 8, 2011

A quick outdoor decoration that costs nothing and you get to quench your thirst while making it. Make a whole string of them for your next barbecue. Finished lanterns.

 

Approximate Time: 30 minutes

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Instructions:

  1. Print out the pattern page and cut both from your heavy paper such as card stock. If you are making your own strip it should be 8 x 1 1/4 inch wide with 12 evenly marked notches along the long edge. Soda Can Lanterns
     

  2. Tape the long strip into a ring overlapping, it should fit snugly around a can. Now place the ring on a flat surface notched side up, slip a can in the ring. The notches are at the correct height for you.

  3. Use your push pin and punch a hole at each notch.

  4. Turn your can over and repeat marking the notches making sure that the notches line up directly one under the one above.

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  5. Now take the other pattern piece; lay the curved edge so it connects a dot on the top circle to the one below and over one.
    Do not connect with the one directly below. This is what makes the swirl effect. With a fine point marker draw along this edge for all 12 lines.

  6. With your cutter start at one hole and push your cutter in very carefully. This is a little tricky at first, but once you do one line you will get the feel of how much pressure you can use.
    I found the best method was to push in and put slight pressure down at the same time cutting just the width of the cutter at a time.
    Don't try to go to fast or you will go off the line at first.

  7. When you have all 12 slits made sit your can on a table; slightly put downward pressure on the top of the can, be careful it will be very easy to squash.
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  8. While holding it down part way insert your pencil, eraser first, between two of the ribs and put a bend outward in the bottom and top of each rib at the point where the slit starts.
    Round out the ribs in a lantern shape with the pencil or your fingers, being careful the ribs are sharp.

  9. You can paint your lantern if you want to cover the can.

Slip a tea light in-between two ribs and hang your lantern by the tab.
Make a string of these lanterns and slip each one on a bulb of a string of Christmas lights.

Finished lanterns.
 

By Ann Winberg from Loup City, NE

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April 5, 2016

This is how to recycle a soda can into a cute little lantern and use as outdoor decor.

Soda Can Lantern as Outdoor Decor

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