A child assembling a paper pumpkin lantern with a cat beside the table.

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Making a Paper Pumpkin Lantern

A child fits a paper strip into a smiling pumpkin lantern while a cat watches beside the table. More strips, star decorations and a glue stick lie nearby.

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Orange paper strips with yellow stars

Bring the paper lantern and its decorations forward. Leave the child, cat, room and spare strips white.

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Orange paper strips with yellow stars — Orange — lantern paper strips / Yellow — star decorations — Digital coloring example

1. Orange — lantern paper strips
2. Yellow — star decorations

Color the lantern’s curved paper strips orange. Keep the gaps, top rim and handle white.
Color the star on the lantern, three loose stars and six stars on the sheet yellow.

The orange lantern keeps visible white gaps, and all ten stars are yellow.

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