[Childcare] For 4-year-olds! Easy winter origami ideas

Santa Claus

Winter Origami: Easy Santa Claus Folding Method [With Audio Commentary] – Christmas Origami

Origami Santas can really boost your child’s excitement.

Use red origami paper to make the hat and outfit, then add pieces of white paper for a more authentic look.

It’s also fun to draw the face together with your child.

With only a few steps, it’s a craft that’s easy even for four-year-olds.

The finished Santa can decorate a room, or you can string several together to make a lovely winter mobile.

It’s a great way to build fine motor skills while enhancing the Christmas atmosphere.

It also becomes a nice time for parent–child communication and enjoyment.

lion dance

Childcare Ideas: New Year’s Origami — Easy Lion Dance Origami (Great for kids!) — Also perfect for New Year’s greeting cards · Origami Easy Lion Dance

Origami lion dance figures are perfect for the New Year.

Using brightly colored paper and following easy steps, the lion dance takes shape right before the children’s eyes.

Once it’s finished, drawing in the eyes and mouth makes the craft even more fun.

The folded lion dance can also serve as a room decoration or a bulletin board accent.

Lining up the lion dances everyone made and using them for New Year’s greetings is a lovely idea.

It might also be fun to chat about the lion dance while folding origami together.

Cute Daruma origami

[ New Year Origami ] Easy and Cute Daruma Folding Method | Origami Daruma

Auspicious! Making colorful daruma with the children and lining them up as decorations would instantly brighten up the room, wouldn’t it? Daruma are often displayed as New Year’s ornaments, and it’s said their origin as lucky charms comes from their characteristic of getting back up even after they fall.

It’s also lovely to make them with origami in the children’s favorite colors.

However, since the colors of daruma each carry meaning, it can be a great time to deepen learning while crafting.

This is a recommended idea for preschool classes, so be sure to give it a try.

Let’s tear and make it! Shishimai-kun

[Kindergarten/Daycare] January: Tear-and-Paste Craft! Shishimai (Lion Dance) Artwork & Craft Part 1

Don’t children also have chances to see the lion dance during the New Year? Some kindergartens and nursery schools put on lion dance performances, too.

Some kids even get scared and cry.

But if you make a lion dancer using torn origami, you’ll end up with a cute little lion-dance friend.

Cut origami paper into strips and tear them by hand.

These torn pieces will be the lion’s body.

Paste the torn pieces and the lion’s face onto a backing sheet, and it’s done.

It’s also fun to draw pictures around your little lion dancer.

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Festive! Cute origami sea bream

[New Year Origami] Easy and Cute Sea Bream Folding / Origami Fish Tai — Origami Sea Bream

Let’s make a lively sea bream that looks ready to swim away any moment! Sea bream are known to live long among fish, so they’re often eaten at celebrations and events as a wish for longevity.

What’s more, because the word “omedetai” (congratulatory) contains the sound “tai,” sea bream are considered lucky and are sometimes displayed for New Year’s as well.

This time, let’s make a sea bream out of origami and start a wonderful year! You’ll need one 15-cm square of red origami paper, one 7.5-cm square, round stickers or eye-shaped cutouts, scissors, glue, and a pen.

Some steps are a bit complex, so take your time and finish it carefully!

Easy and cute! Shimenawa wreath

[New Year Origami] Easy and Cute Shimenawa Wreath How to Fold / Origami Shimenawa Wreath

Something to make for New Year’s! Let’s decorate the room with a fluffy-looking origami shimenawa.

You’ll need ten 7.5 cm square sheets of origami paper and glue or double-sided tape.

Since you first make parts from the ten sheets and then assemble them, it seems like a great way to develop children’s thinking and spatial awareness.

If you attach flowers, the twelve zodiac animals, or other New Year’s ornaments to the shimenawa, it will look even more festive.

Recommended for preschoolers in the middle to senior age range! Give it a try.

A plump, cute long-tailed tit (Shima-enaga)

Origami: How to fold a plump long-tailed tit

Let’s make a cute long-tailed tit (shima-enaga) from Hokkaido with origami.

You’ll need 7.5 cm square origami paper, round stickers, a black pen, two strips cut lengthwise from a 15 cm square sheet of brown origami paper (each 1/4 the width), scissors, glue, and so on.

The step for folding the long-tailed tit’s wings is a bit complex, so children will likely feel more comfortable working carefully together with a teacher or guardian.

The finished long-tailed tit can stand on its own, so it looks adorable as is, but if you make a branch out of the brown origami and combine them, you can bring out even more charm.