A Flower Bouquet Lantern Made of Red Packets 红包绣球

This is another video I found in YouTube to make a "Flower Bouquet lantern with Red packets".

This video shows a different approach. It uses 60 square red packets, instead of having to trim 30 red packets into 1:2 rectangles.



I just learnt that this is also known as  "Flower Kusudama"

Found Video on How to Make a Decorative Flower Ball with Red Packets 红包绣球

I'm so glad to find another video that demonstrate How To Make A Decorative Flower Ball With Red Packets.

When I browsed through this video, I noticed this lantern is different from the one I made in my earlier post on "How to make a Flower Ball Chinese New Year Lantern"

This lantern is also beautiful. To me, this one looks like a flower bouquet. I would like to call it the flower bouquet lantern instead.

I counted this lantern would need 30 pieces of red packets, each red packet trimmed into rectangle of 2:1, i.e. a rectangle comprising of 2 squares.

In another words, it means there are 24 pieces of rectangles, the balance 6 pieces rectangles to be trimmed further to make 12 squares.

This video I found would demonstrate how to make this flower bouquet lantern

How to make a Ornamental Hong Bao Flower Ball (彩球, 花球)

I know many would love to learn to make flower balls with Ang Pow packets. Here's another video I found that teach the "HOW". It's an 11 minutes video, so give yourself so patience to watch and learn.

Chinese Lantern Making at Yio Chu Kang CC

If you are in Singapore when Chinese New Year is around the corner, do look out on the activities conducted by the Community Clubs (CCs) here. Some CCs do conduct Chinese New Year Lantern Making, and if you are lucky, you can sign up to attend one of the sessions.

I was so happy when I see this posted video on facebook and YouTube. Our Tai Chi teacher had volunteered and conducted a Chinese Lantern Making Session at Yio Chu Kang Community Club earlier this year, during the Chinese New Year period to share with her students to make a Flower Ball with Ang Bao packets.

Guess what?! I'm surprised to see that she is still keeping the Ang Bao Flower Ball that I gave to her last year. She has used it as a sample to guide her students and share with them the process of making it. How wonderful she is!

I felt so apologetic for I'm unable to draw time to make any new Ang Bao Lanterns to gift my favourite teacher and my mother due to my new job commitment this year 2011.

Nevertheless, I'm elevated by this video. I still do keep up with my hobby! So I hope you too, to do something you enjoy. Be Happy and Be Passionate, just like my Tai Chi teacher, I'm so proud of her.

How to make a Flower Ball using only 12 red packets

My friend brought some square red packets. At first, we could not decide what to do, later we discovered we could make a flower ball with only 12 square red packets!

I've created this video to show you how to do it, it's very simple.



If you have kids, you can teach them to make one for their art lesson or make one to decorate your house for the coming Chinese New Year on 3 Feb 2011.

Here are the materials required:

1. 12 square red packets
2. A piece of red string about 30cm
3. Stapler with yellow or red staples filled
4. 1 Tassel
5. Sticky tape

Have Fun!

Flower Ball Lantern Origami

We can reference this video from YouTube to make a Flower Ball Lantern.
From the video, we need to fold 60 triangles altogether. 5 triangles to form a "flower drum", combine 6 "flower drums" to form the flower ball.

During Chinese New Year, some Chinese do not like to see the "white" sides of the flower ball lantern. I think one way to solve this is to get 30 pieces of square Red Envelopes (Ang Bao), fold them into half triangle, then use a pen knife to cut the triangles. Alternatively, use square paper that is red on both sides to cut the triangle.

I'm going to try make this one when I'm free.

Chinese New Year Lantern - Another folding method for flower ball

This is further to my video on "How to Make A Flower Ball Chinese New Year Lantern" and my previous post on "How to fold a Spherical Flower Ball Chinese New Year lantern".

Sometimes you might not get red packets that have patterns printed on both sides, and the spherical flower ball you made with ordinary red packets did not look as colourful as mine in the picture of my previous post. Here's another method to fold the edges to make your flower ball looks outstanding that gives you a 3-dimensional feel.

See the pictures below, you can fold the edges to form various 5 petals flower ribbons on it.



This is a close up of how I fold the edges. Exercise little patience to fold the edges. You may use double side sticky tape to hold as you fold.

How to fold a Spherical Flower Ball Chinese New Year Lantern

In my earlier video post on "How to make a Flower Ball Chinese New Year Lantern", some of my visitor might be wondering how to further fold the flower ball to remove spikes to make it a sphere flower ball just like my picture below.

Thus, I upload this post. I sincerely hope you could learn to make one for your loved ones for Chinese New Year to bring more joy to your family.



If you have followed my earlier video on making the flower ball, here's the very simple additional steps.
Just fold in the edges or "spikes" and staple them. My picture below gives you a reference of how I did it.



I would suggest you to use red staplets in your stapler to do this, otherwise it could be quite unsightly to see staplets all over your flower ball lantern.

How to make a Chinese New Year Lantern using Red Packets - Flower Ball

Make a Flower Ball Chinese New Year lantern using 30 Red Packets or Ang Pows to decorate our home or office with this step by step instruction guide.