Simple Star Lantern For Diwali Coloring Page

A paper lantern hangs from one straight cord that runs up off the top of the page. The body is a plain ball shape crossed by four long curved seams, the way a real paper lantern folds, and a five pointed star sits square across the front of it, overlapping those seams. That overlap is what makes this sheet interesting to color. The star cuts across four separate panels, so you have to decide whether the star wins or the panels do, and the two answers look completely different when finished. A short collar sits at the top where the cord attaches and another sits underneath, with a narrow tassel of straight strands hanging below that. Nothing on the page is filled in and there is no background, no ground and no other object. Kandils like this one go up outside doors and on balconies across India in the week before Diwali, usually in bright paper that glows once a bulb goes inside. On paper the effect is up to whoever is holding the crayons. Warm shades in the star and cool ones behind it read closest to the real thing.