Mid-Autumn lantern templates: rabbit, round, slit paper lantern

Templates a family or class prints to cut, color and fold paper lanterns for Zhongqiu, the Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth night of the eighth lunar month. Each sheet shows the pieces flat, with solid cut lines and dashed fold lines: the jade rabbit lantern, the round lantern, the slit paper lantern. Choose simple, detailed or paper-fold. Type another lantern, such as a pomelo or star lantern, and the three styles follow it.

• a craft activity for a class
• a family lantern-making evening
• a holiday craft table
• a project sheet on festival crafts

Frequently asked questions

What do the solid and dashed lines mean?

Solid lines are cuts and dashed lines are folds. The sheet has no text on it.

Which style is easiest for a child?

The simple style: a few large shapes in one bold line, with wide areas to color. The detailed style has fine ornament on every panel.

What is the paper-fold style?

A craft-diagram look, with thin outlines and small arrows showing where each tab folds.

Can I ask for a different lantern?

Yes. Type a lantern as a direction; the design follows the request and is not a guaranteed result.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.