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Tea Light Lantern Template

A table lantern of three to twelve walls, each with an arched window, standing on a base. An LED tea light inside throws the window shapes onto the table. Diwali, weddings, dinner tables.

Tea-light lantern — change shape

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Only here Your own design

Put a logo, photo or pattern straight onto the box — most free template sites give you the outline and stop there. Drag it where you want it; it is trimmed to the cut lines so nothing prints off the card, and it stays in your browser.

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Bigger than the paper? Each piece prints whole on its own sheet. A single piece is never split: pick bigger paper or a smaller size. More about printing

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Drop a picture anywhere on the drawingTap “Add a picture” below to print your own design on this box.

Print at 100% (“actual size”), never “fit to page”, or the box comes out the wrong size.

The tea-light lantern template, flat and folded

Tea-light lantern template — free printable dieline with cut and fold lines, any size
The printable dieline at its standard size. Type your own size above for yours.
Tea-light lantern folded up from the template — the finished piece
The box it folds into.

What this template is for

A table lantern of three to twelve walls, each with an arched window, standing on a base. An LED tea light inside throws the window shapes onto the table. Diwali, weddings, dinner tables.

Also called paper candle lantern · luminary template · tea light holder · diwali table lantern — all the same shape, and this is it.

How to use this template

All four downloads are the same tea-light lantern at the same size — only the format changes.

PDF printing at home
Print at 100 per cent, or hand it to a print shop as "actual size, no scaling".
PNG 300 dpi Canva, Photoshop, Procreate
Upload, lock it in place and design your tea-light lantern on top. Free plan and phone included. Full Canva walkthrough →
SVG Cricut, Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity
Vector, with cuts, folds and labels on separate layers. Cricut and Silhouette walkthrough →
DXF Silhouette, laser and vinyl cutters
Two layers, CUT and FOLD — and the one free Silhouette Studio Basic will open.

Getting it printed properly →

Printing it

  1. Type your size above, then download the PDF.
  2. Print at 100% — never “fit to page”, or every measurement comes out wrong.
  3. Too big for the paper? Pick your paper size and leave Fit the pieces to the page ticked: each piece gets its own place on a sheet and the PDF comes out with every page in it, nothing cut in half and nothing to tape.

How to put it together

These pictures are the tea-light lantern itself, not a generic diagram — change the measurements above and the template changes, but the three steps never do.

  1. Cut the solid lines

    Every solid line is a cut. Do the inside shapes first, while the sheet is still whole and easy to hold.

  2. Score every dashed line

    Dashed lines are folds. Score each one first — an empty ballpoint against a ruler — or the card cracks along the outside of the bend.

  3. (glue)LANTERN WALLBASE

    Fold, glue and hold

    Cut every window out first, then tape tissue or vellum behind them if you want a coloured glow. Crease each wall and the fixing flaps along the bottom, glue the wall into a ring with its tab, fold the flaps in and glue the BASE onto them from inside. Stand a battery LED tea light in it — never a real candle.

Glue: a glue stick for paper, white PVA on card — hold each seam thirty seconds, and let the box dry standing up.

Questions about the tea-light lantern

Can I use a real candle?
No — paper burns. Use a battery LED tea light; it gives the same flicker without the flame.
How do I get a coloured glow?
Tape tissue paper, cellophane or vellum behind the windows before you close the wall. Each window can be a different colour.
Will it print at home?
Yes. At the size it opens with — six walls, 45 mm wide and 110 mm tall — it prints on two A4 or US Letter sheets: the wall in two sections and the base.

Print your own design on it

Add a logo, photo or pattern in the panel on the left and drag it onto the tea-light lantern. It is trimmed to the cut outline, embedded properly in the PDF, and never leaves your computer — most free template sites hand you the outline and stop there. How printing your own design works.

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