Puzzle together the pieces of a DIY LED-powered lantern, fit for any budding explorer. Sharpen your spatial reasoning skills while crafting with wood, foam, and fabric. Learn about the history of lanterns, lantern signals, and secret codes, while lighting the way for pretend play!

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Light-Up Lantern

My daughter loved this it was a super first build for her.

Bought the lantern for my 8 year old who loves using the real camping lantern around the house. Daughter loved it and assembled it in about 15 minutes with no assistance.  She has been carrying it around at night since she built it. 

The final product looks exactly like the picture. My nephew (7) and I put this together over the Christmas holiday. He's a good reader and has the mind of an engineer, so assembly required only occasional adult intervention. I was more of an assistant and trash collector. He was so proud of his work!

A bit long, repetitive and tedious build for my almost 5 year old's attention span. She lost interest around half way through and I had to finish it for her (and I was tired building it too, tbh). Nonetheless, the instructions were easy to follow and the result was awesome. My daughters still play with it a few weeks later. I just wish the internal lantern's on/off switch was easily accessible from the outside without having to unscrew the jar each time.

This is a great little project! Loved it all. Bought two, one for each of my kids. Good challenge on the instructions for them and they loved the end result. Only complaint was that the entire project is essentially held together with foam stickers which sadly didnt stay stuck together for long once we hung the lanterns up. Had to use elders glue to keep together.

It was easy and fun but you have to open the whole jar to turn ON/OFF the light.... not for a practical use. 

Very cute lantern. My son loved building it and can use it when camping!

My 5 years old daughter built this lantern all by herself ( include reading the instructions), she loved every process and hanged this lantern on her Buddha pray room. 

Love that this is functional and nice to display! My 5 year old needed a little help putting it together but she enjoyed the process and was so excited to see it work!

Another fun project with my 4 year old daughter, I have been getting things above her recommended age because they seem more like things she would enjoy. This one was harder for her because  of how accurate you have to be with sticking the foam pieces around the holes so I had to help a bit more than I expected but it’s still a fun toy for her (: 

He really liked this project, we camp so he really enjoyed putting it together.  Great project.

Puzzle together the pieces of an LED-powered lantern, fit for any budding explorer. Sharpen your spatial reasoning skills while crafting with wood, foam, and fabric.

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