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For Seniors: Simple and Lovely Crafts – A Collection of Take-Home Project Ideas for Day Service

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If you can take home the pieces made at day service centers and other senior facilities, you can display or use them at home, adding a little extra enjoyment to everyday life.

Many older adults also enjoy focusing on the act of making things.

So this time, we’ve gathered ideas for projects you can take home.

We’ve included practical items you can use at home, like small organizers and photo frames, as well as pieces you can simply display and enjoy!

The materials are easy to prepare, and we also make use of recyclables like empty jars.

Crafting involves using your fingertips, which can stimulate the brain and help prevent cognitive decline, while also providing a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment from creating something.

Please have fun making these projects!

For Seniors: Simple and Lovely Crafts. Day Service Take-Home Project Ideas (41–50)

Weaving a coaster with a paper plate

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Weaving a coaster with a paper plate

Let’s make round yarn coasters that take advantage of a paper plate’s circular shape.

Cut slits around the rim of the paper plate.

The key is to make sure the number of slits is odd.

Thread yarn from the back of the plate through a slit, then across to the slit on the opposite side.

Continue threading the yarn through all the slits, and then start weaving from the center of the plate.

With this method, you can easily make a circular coaster.

Switching yarn colors partway through will create a cute design.

Both paper plates and yarn are sold at 100-yen shops, so it’s easy to gather the materials.

It also sounds fun to make matching coasters together with your child.

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[For Seniors] Simple and Lovely Crafts: Day Service Take-Home Project Ideas (51–60)

Simple summer craft: goldfish wind chime

[How-To Video] How to Make an Easy Summer Craft: “Goldfish Wind Chimes”

Simple summer craft: goldfish wind chime

The summer-perfect craft “Goldfish Wind Chime” is a cool, refreshing activity that even seniors can enjoy.

Cut out the bottom of a round cheese box to make a frame, attach a card case from a 100-yen shop to the inside, and add clear stones or small artificial flowers to create a goldfish-bowl-like, translucent finish.

Adding goldfish decorative stickers instantly brings a summery vibe.

With many steps that use the hands and fingers, the fingertip stimulation can activate the brain and may help prevent cognitive decline.

It’s a highly seasonal piece, perfect for indoor summer recreation.

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Swaying Rocking Horse

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How about a hobby horse craft that makes clever use of paper tubes and twigs? Cut corrugated cardboard into the shape of a horse’s profile and make slits in both the cardboard and a paper tube, then secure them with a hot glue gun.

Attach four twigs to the body to serve as legs, and fix slightly curved twigs to each side.

Those curved twigs are the key to creating that gentle rocking motion! Once you make the mane and tail with string or yarn, your hobby horse is complete.

Put the twigs you collected on a walk or from your garden to good use and create a charming hobby horse.

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Tissue Paper Art: Horse

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We’d like to introduce a horse artwork in the style of torn-paper collage using tissue paper.

First, prepare a sketch of the horse’s outline.

Instead of coloring it in, tear tissue paper into small pieces and tint them with paint.

Once dry, lightly roll or stretch the pieces to shape them, then glue them onto the sketch.

You’ll end up with a softly textured, three-dimensional piece.

The fluffy feel evokes the horse’s coat and gives a warmth that’s different from ordinary coloring.

There are no difficult steps, and it doesn’t require much strength, making it perfect for older adults.

By changing the colors you use, you can create a white horse, a chestnut horse, and more—tailoring the expression to your liking.

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Awaji-knot horse made with mizuhiki

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This is a refined, gentle craft that depicts a horse’s face using mizuhiki cords.

All you need are mizuhiki, scissors, and glue, so it’s easy to start with familiar materials.

Using the Awaji knot as the base, change colors while imagining the face and mane, and you’ll create a clean, elegant horse’s profile.

Gold or white mizuhiki make it suitable for New Year’s decorations, while soft, pale tones work year-round.

Because it involves delicate handwork, it’s also great for finger rehabilitation and improving concentration.

You can feel the beauty of tradition as you make it, and the finished piece becomes a lovely ornament to brighten your room.

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Horse made with a paper plate

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A horse made from a paper plate that instantly brightens up a space is perfect as a wall decoration or an ornament.

After coloring a white paper plate with brown or black paint, attach a muzzle piece made from construction paper.

Draw the nose and mouth in any style you like to give your horse a unique personality.

Add a fine mane and ears, and finish by attaching the eyes.

You can make the eyes from construction paper, or use googly-eye stickers available at 100-yen shops.

This craft is ideal for seniors’ fine motor exercise, involving actions like gluing pieces together and applying paint with a brush.

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A fluffy, cozy pouch woven from cardboard

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A fluffy, cozy pouch woven from cardboard

A fluffy, fuzzy pouch you can use for cosmetics or quick outings.

You’d never guess it was woven with cardboard.

Cut slits into both ends of a piece of cardboard and glue chopsticks to it.

Thread yarn through the slits and wrap it around the cardboard.

Using yarn attached to the chopsticks, weave over-under, over-under along the threaded yarn—similar to how you’d use a loom.

Once you’ve woven a sufficient length, cut it free from the cardboard.

Make two woven panels and tie the yarn at the ends to join them.

Turn it inside out, insert an inner pouch, add decorations, and you’re done.

Try making one with fluffy yarn!

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