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[Childcare] Collection of Daruma Craft Ideas: Fun Projects Using Everyday Materials

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When it comes to January activities in childcare, making crafts with lucky daruma dolls is a must! Using familiar materials like paper plates, origami paper, and milk cartons, there are plenty of ideas that even two-year-olds can enjoy.

Children can create patterns with torn-paper collage or decalcomania, turn their creations into spinning tops or maracas to play with, or make daruma that gently wobble like roly-poly toys.

Why not enjoy the process of making them and share the joy of playing with the finished pieces together with the children? Here, we’ll introduce lots of ideas for unique, personality-filled daruma crafts! Because the children’s creations are treated as art pieces, we use the term “seisaku” (制作, creation/artwork) in the text.

[Childcare] Daruma Craft Ideas! Fun Projects Using Everyday Materials (21–30)

Spins great! A whirligig made from a milk carton

Spins Great! Whirligig Made from a Milk Carton – Handmade New Year’s Toy [Daycare/Kindergarten]

Spins great! A whirligig made from a milk carton

Open the milk carton and let it dry completely, then cut off the bottom part.

Cut off the spout, turn the inside outward, and fold it in half.

Sketch an oval shape, cut it out, and draw a daruma face on each side.

After sticking the pieces together with double-sided tape, paint the daruma.

Punch holes along the fold, thread a string through, and your buzzer spinner (whirligig) is complete.

Enjoy figuring out the timing for loosening and pulling the string.

Try challenging yourself to see how many times you can make it spin.

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Daruma-otoshi with a bottle cap

No.091 “Cap de Daruma-Otoshi” [Handmade Toy by a Nursery Teacher]

Daruma-otoshi with a bottle cap

Here’s a handmade daruma-otoshi idea that cleverly uses plastic bottle caps.

If you have lots of caps at home, give it a try and have fun playing with it.

For the basic method, make a hole in the center of a plastic bottle cap, thread a string through, shape it into a circle, and tie it to create the daruma.

Make four in different sizes, and on the front and back of each circular cap piece, glue thick paper covered with construction paper in the same color as the cap.

You can also make the mallet using a pair of disposable chopsticks and a bottle cap, but since a utility knife is required, an adult should handle that part.

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Easy! How to Make a New Year Daruma

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Making a daruma with balloons is unique and fun for children.

Prepare balloons, paint, construction paper, templates for the daruma’s body and face, eyebrows, mustache, scissors, and round stickers.

Dip the inflated balloon in paint and gently stamp it onto the construction paper.

Kids can enjoy the springy bounce of the balloon and the changes in color intensity as it varies from dark to light.

Place the daruma body template on the painted paper and cut along it with scissors.

For the face, cut white construction paper into a plump half-moon shape and glue on each facial part.

Try creating your original daruma by adding patterns with square-cut origami pieces and round stickers.

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Perfect for New Year too! A Daruma you can make and play with

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In January, it seems many regions hold Daruma markets.

Crafting a lucky Daruma is perfect for a January art project.

Prepare three strips of construction paper cut into small tanzaku-like pieces.

Take one marble and glue the paper strips together to wrap around it.

Draw a Daruma face on a round sticker and attach it to the marble-filled paper to finish.

Because the marble is inside, the Daruma will roll around amusingly when you set it in motion.

If you make a slope and hold Daruma-rolling races, the children are sure to get excited.

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Daruma-otoshi with masking tape!

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A Daruma-otoshi that even small children can make is a great way to learn about traditional New Year’s games.

Prepare construction paper, scissors, masking tape, and crayons, and let’s get started.

Cut out the face and body parts from the construction paper, then apply strips of masking tape at your preferred widths.

Color over the masking tape with crayons, using different colors as you like, and then peel off the tape.

Attach the face on top and draw the facial expression.

Once you glue together the dropping stick cut from construction paper, it’s complete.

You’ll end up with a Daruma-otoshi that showcases each child’s individuality.

Feel free to adjust the width of the masking tape and the colors you use to your liking.

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A Daruma mask made from a paper plate

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Paper plate Daruma dolls and zodiac masks that you can easily make with kids are sure to liven up New Year’s celebrations.

Get a paper plate, paint, chopsticks, and scissors ready, and let’s start.

Cut out the eye holes in the paper plate with scissors.

For the handle, glue a pair of chopsticks together.

Paint the entire paper plate, then add patterns and decorations to the body or face area, and you’re done.

Try poking your eyes through the cutouts and taking photos for fun.

It might also be fun to make them using pipe cleaners or yarn.

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Papercut Rabbits and Daruma Mochi

[Origami] How to Cut a Daruma and Mochi Rabbit — Kirigami ☆ Dharma Doll and Mochi Rabbit

Papercut Rabbits and Daruma Mochi

The set of a kagami-mochi, a rabbit, and a daruma—especially the plump, rounded daruma mochi rabbit—is just so cute, isn’t it? Get your scissors, origami paper, and a pencil ready, and let’s make it.

Fold the origami paper in half, and on one half, draw the shape of a daruma with a pencil.

The key is to make it like a rice ball (triangle) shape.

For the rabbit mochi, fold another sheet of origami paper in half and, keeping the shape of kagami-mochi in mind, draw the rabbit’s body.

Draw the eyes and mouth, then cut along the lines with scissors.

Finally, paste the finished daruma and rabbit mochi onto a sheet of construction paper as a base, and enjoy displaying your creation.

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