[Day Service] Handmade Autumn Crafts: Take-Home Project Ideas

Halloween mobile

Stained-glass-style with cellophane ♪ Halloween mobile

If you want to try a decoration that’s a cut above the rest, Halloween mobiles are a great choice! Their gentle swaying looks beautiful, and older adults are sure to enjoy them too.

First, cut construction paper into pumpkin shapes and stick colored cellophane on them.

It’ll look even more festive if you make a variety of shapes, not just pumpkins—like spider webs and bats! Next, thread twine through three straws, then tie the twine at the center of each straw.

Connect the mobiles by tying the twine to each straw, attach your cutouts, and you’re done! The colors change depending on how the light hits, so enjoy a wonderful Halloween with this charming mobile.

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Paper Flower ‘Spider Lily’

Handcraft a paper flower red spider lily wall decoration! How about making a fall flower that blooms around September using construction paper? [Tsukuru-mon]

Cluster amaryllis, which can be seen everywhere around the autumn equinox, are stunningly beautiful when you find them blooming in great masses, and just as lovely when a single flower quietly blossoms in a corner of a park.

Why not try making these flowers with origami? If you want to focus and immerse yourself in a detailed task, a craft that involves making and assembling small parts is perfect.

Make lots of them and display them in a prominent spot on the wall for a wonderful effect.

It’s also a wall decoration idea that seniors are sure to enjoy.

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Real and simple maple leaf

【Autumn Origami】Realistic and Easy Maple / Origami Maple

Here’s an idea for maple leaves you can easily make with origami and display in lots of places.

First, fold the paper into a triangle with the side you want to show—the colored side—on the inside.

Fold it in half again, then open it.

Fold both sides toward the crease you just made, and open it again.

After adding radial crease lines to the triangular origami, begin folding by gathering those creases toward the edges.

The key is to offset each fold slightly.

Then, freehand draw the leaf shape, cut along the line, and open it up to reveal a maple leaf.

You can use this basic method for many different purposes.

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It can be a piece of art! Maple leaf wall decoration

Autumn Decorations: How to Make Maple Leaves — Introducing Wall-Hanging and Hanging Decorations Using Origami and Construction Paper! Why not try making fall foliage for October and November? [Tsukuru-mon]

This decoration combines drawing paper and origami, featuring a soft look and striking, layered three-dimensionality.

You use a sheet of drawing paper with a lattice of cuts as the base, then layer maple leaf pieces on top.

By considering the base’s uneven surface as you add the pieces, you can effectively create depth and a realistic sense of dimension in the foliage.

It may also be important to choose a background color that highlights the maple leaf colors.

A rod and string are attached to the top of the base, making it easy to hang and display in a variety of locations.

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Moon-viewing dumplings made with cardboard and washi paper

How to Make Mini Sanpō (sanbo) Moon-Viewing Dumplings from Cardboard and Washi Paper - Instructions & Templates

Let’s make a sanpō (ceremonial tray) and dango that will be useful for a moon-viewing event.

There are templates for both, so please download those first.

Once you’ve downloaded the templates, cut the sanpō parts out of thick paper and attach them to washi paper.

After you’ve prepared all the parts, assemble them.

For the dango, roll up tissues lightly moistened with a misting spray, let them dry, then use glue to adhere chirimen fabric over the top.

Lay washi paper with red-painted edges on the assembled sanpō, place the dango on top, and you’re done! You’ll use a hole punch to make the decorative openings on the sanpō, but if you don’t have one, drawing black circles with a pen is fine, too.

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Cute maple leaves

[Autumn Origami] Easy! Cute Maple Leaf How to Make / Fall Foliage Decoration Origami Maple

When it comes to plants that symbolize autumn, brilliantly colored red and yellow autumn leaves come to mind.

Let’s make those evocative fall leaves with origami.

This project combines parts to create a three-dimensional finish, resulting in sturdy origami that works not only as part of a decoration but also stands on its own.

Cut small pieces of origami paper with scissors, fold them into diamond shapes, and assemble them to form a maple leaf.

By paying attention to the seam in the center, you’ll achieve a lifelike three-dimensional shape.

You can even aim for a more realistic look by intentionally combining parts of slightly different sizes instead of using pieces that are all the same.

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Cute cosmos

[Origami] How to make a cute cosmos flower

The flower name “cosmos” is written with the characters for autumn and cherry blossom (秋桜) because its petals resemble those of cherry blossoms.

This time, let’s make a cosmos flower with origami.

By folding a single sheet of paper finely to create each petal, you can nicely express the flower’s distinctive jagged notches.

Since a cosmos has eight petals, prepare eight sheets of origami.

Also, the yellow central disk of the flower, made by snipping fine cuts into the paper, turns out beautifully.

If it strikes you as somewhat similar to a chrysanthemum, that’s because cosmos is a member of the Asteraceae family and is also known by another name, “Ōshagiku” (literally, great spring wheel chrysanthemum).