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

Cutout artwork of autumn leaves made with fallen leaves

Easy With Fallen Leaves! Cutout Painting / [OT Let’s Try Making It! Vol. 30] (Recreation & Crafts)

Here’s an introduction to a maple-leaf cutout artwork.

First, draw a maple leaf on construction paper and cut out the leaf shape.

It’s easier if you start cutting from the center of the drawing.

Next, take a separate sheet of construction paper and glue on a variety of colorful, pre-collected fallen leaves.

Finally, place the maple-leaf cutout sheet on top and glue it down—the maple-leaf made of autumn leaves is complete! It’s a lovely idea that could even become a stylish wall decoration if you frame it.

The steps are simple, but the look of the piece changes dramatically depending on the leaves you use, which makes it a lot of fun!

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Fallen Leaves Bookmark

[Craft Play] Felt Fall-Leaf Bookmarks that Make Reading in Autumn More Fun

These bookmarks, inspired by fallen leaves, will make you look forward to autumn reading! Using felt gives them a warm, cozy feel, and they’d make wonderful gifts.

Simply cut two leaf shapes—such as maple or ginkgo—from felt, apply glue to one piece, place a string in between, and fix the second piece on top.

It’s also lovely to design leaves on both ends of the string.

Felt doesn’t require finishing thread ends and is easy to work with, so why not incorporate this project into a craft activity at your day service?

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Grape craft using plastic bags

Grape crafts using plastic bags! Crafts of Grapes ~Using a plastic bag~ (with template) (September/Autumn) (activities for seniors/day service) (wall decoration) (easy) (creative OT) (early childhood education) DIY

Cut a plastic bag into a triangle, and use it to form a bunch of grapes as if the bag were filled with the fruit.

Packing the bag to create a three-dimensional look—and doing it without glue—makes it a quick and easy project.

After filling in the “grapes,” seal the edges of the bag, wrap the top with brown origami paper to create the stem, and you’re done.

The key is the triangular shape of the plastic bag; when cutting, imagine how it will expand once filled.

You can use the same color for all the grapes to create a cohesive look, or mix different colors at random to enhance the three-dimensional effect with a color gradient.

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Maple leaf photo frame

[Handmade Video] Hands Hint Club at Home: “Let’s Make a Photo Frame from Cardboard” [Official Hands]

Maple leaves have often been the subject of waka poetry since ancient times.

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro’s poem, “Akiyama no momiji o shigemi madoinuru imo o motome mu yamaji shirazumo,” is well known.

It’s quite charming to go on a momijigari (autumn leaf viewing) with everyone from the day service while thinking of such poems.

How about decorating a photo frame with the maple leaves you gather? It will make a lovely autumn memory, and photos taken in the fall will surely shine.

The photo frame can be handmade or store-bought—either is fine.

Arrange various shades of orange paper and maple leaves beautifully on the frame you’ve prepared.

A maple leaf made by folding a strip of paper

Easy paper maple and ginkgo leaf decoration (with audio commentary)

Here’s an artful maple-leaf craft idea that brings out the feeling of autumn in Japan! If it’s for seniors, it’s best to keep the materials and steps as simple as possible.

How about a beautifully three-dimensional maple leaf made just by folding and gluing paper cut into strips? Since you’ll need lots of pieces, the more participants you have, the more smoothly the work will go.

The silhouette is as clean as a paper cutout, so if you hang them as mobile-style decorations, they’ll look great by windows, at the entrance, or on walls.

Please try incorporating this into day service activities so everyone can enjoy the autumn season together!

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Origami Maple Leaf Wreath

For autumn decorations! Origami maple leaf wreath ☆ Autumn origami maple wreath

This is a simple decoration made by combining and gluing origami maple leaves into a ring.

The folding method that creates a gap for inserting pieces is a particularly important point.

You’ll need six leaves to complete the ring, and I think it looks more beautiful if you alternate the colors.

Consider color combinations and balance, and try making a ring with maple leaves in a variety of colors.

To make it easier to display, you can reinforce the back by layering paper, and adding maple leaf parts to the front to enhance the three-dimensional effect is also recommended.

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