[For Seniors] Recommended for day-service centers. A collection of craft ideas for April
April brings warmer weather and a lighter mood.
How about incorporating seasonal flowers like cherry blossoms and hyacinths, as well as spring-themed motifs, into your craft recreation activities? Participants can take their finished pieces home, so they can enjoy the feeling of spring there as well.
Craft activities that use the fingertips allow for focused engagement, which many older adults particularly enjoy.
We’ve gathered a wide range of projects—from simple to more elaborate—so please choose the ones that best suit each individual and give them a try.
Let’s all enjoy them together while communicating and connecting!
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For Seniors: Recommended for Day Services. April Craft Ideas Collection (51–60)
Easter decorations
Easter is the celebration of Christ’s resurrection.
Easter eggs, which are displayed to mark the occasion, have a soft, rounded shape that brings a sense of calm—making them perfect decorations for day service centers.
Another nice point is that they’re eco-friendly, since you can make them by recycling toilet paper rolls used at the facility.
Simply attach your favorite animal—like a rabbit made from white paper—to a toilet paper roll, then cut it into an egg shape.
It’s an easy, straightforward process.
You might also enjoy making versions with different animals and displaying them side by side!
Making a dandelion calendar
In April, you can sometimes find fields and parks filled with lots of small, yellow dandelion flowers.
Just looking at them makes you feel the warm, cozy spring weather.
Let’s add some handmade dandelions to an April calendar.
You can make them by accordion-folding and cutting construction paper or using origami.
Creating a calendar with a dandelion coloring page would be lovely, too.
Since you can do the craft while seated at a table, it encourages conversation with those around you and helps promote communication.
It’s also nice that you can display the finished calendar at home.
Collage with stickers and paper postings
Let’s collage a simple April calendar with a spring vibe! We’ll add cherry blossom washi tape and patterned papers.
Fill any empty spaces with your favorite flake stickers, like petals or animals.
All the washi tape and stickers used here were purchased at a 100-yen shop.
Since 100-yen shops carry a wide variety of stickers, you can pick your favorites to create a fun, original calendar.
A calendar in full-bloom sakura will warm your heart every time you look at it.
Give it a try!
strawberry
Here’s how to make a three-dimensional strawberry using quilling techniques that older adults can enjoy as a fine motor activity.
Cut red origami paper into rectangles and make fine slits along the edge.
Wrap the paper around a bamboo skewer, twirling it as you shape it.
Once you finish wrapping, secure it with glue, then gently loosen it to create a soft, dimensional strawberry form.
For the leaves, cut green origami paper, add a jagged pattern, and fold it to give it depth.
The appeal lies not only in the joy of making but also in the pleasure of decorating walls with the finished pieces.
When displayed together, the work creates a bright, spring-like atmosphere.
[For Seniors] Recommended for Day Services. April Craft Ideas (61–70)
A simple flower made with an accordion fold
When we think of spring, we often picture lush natural landscapes, with flowers we don’t even know the names of blooming everywhere.
This piece is about creating those vibrant, colorful spring flowers using combinations of origami.
The process is to accordion-fold the paper, then fold the whole piece in half and round off the edges with a cut.
After that, open it up, connect the pieces, and shape them into a circle.
By changing the colors of the origami or varying the sizes, let’s create a colorful flower field.
Simple bouquet
Many flowers reach their best viewing season in spring.
It’s also a time when you’ll have more chances to see blossoms in parks and meadows.
Older adults may encounter flowers when they go for a walk, too.
Let’s make a bouquet out of origami that evokes those proudly blooming flowers.
Use origami paper in your favorite colors to fold the flowers for the bouquet.
Since many seniors love flowers, some may find themselves smiling as they create their pieces.
You can hang the finished bouquet on the wall, or take it home and display it there.
Tulip wreath
Tulips are one of the flowers that color the spring season, and their rich variety of hues conveys the excitement of spring.
This is a wreath that captures that springtime joy by arranging colorful tulips on a circular base.
It’s recommended to make the wreath base in green to evoke leaves; create triangular pieces and insert adjacent pieces into the gaps to form a circle.
Then just add tulips and other decorations to the base to finish.
To make the tulips really stand out, it’s important to use folds to give them a three-dimensional look.