Stay At Home Mum blogger Eileen Teo demonstrates how to make a Lunar New Year lantern, Blue Peter-style

YouTube creator Eileen Teo (aka ET Speaks From Home) is part of an online Stay at Home Mum (SAHM) blogger movement. Since 2012, she has shared parts of her family life online, and has created videos covering a wide range of themes and topics, including crafting, cooking, Chinese culture, technology, travel and consumer reviews.

This Chinese lantern tutorial was made in the days when online bloggers like Eileen were transitioning from written online blogs to dabbling with the video possibilities of YouTube, looking to diversify their income and share their knowledge and experiences with a bigger, broader audience.

Chinese lanterns are made and hung to bring good fortune at the end of the Lunar New Year. The creativity and authenticity of this simple, DIY-style tutorial is a homespun and heartwarming example of finding connection and building your own community online.

A tutorial showing how to create a Chinese lantern without staples.