[Day Service] Spring Take-Home Crafts: Ideas to Warmly Brighten Your Room
For crafts in day service programs, we recommend incorporating motifs that can only be enjoyed in that season.
Take-home projects using spring-specific motifs—such as cherry blossoms, tulips, carp streamers, and hina dolls—not only offer the fun of working with your hands, but also let people display the finished pieces at home to savor the season.
Even those who find it difficult to go out can feel the arrival of spring indoors.
We’ve included a wide range of items, from practical pieces like wall hangings, bouquets, and message stands to purely decorative creations.
Please make use of these ideas for spring-themed crafts.
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[Day Service] Spring Take-Home Crafts: Ideas to Warmly Brighten Your Room (61–70)
A clover flower crown
An irresistibly cute finish that’s sure to make your heart flutter! Here are some ideas for a white clover flower crown.
Many of you may have made flower crowns with white clover or clovers when you were little, right? This fun craft will bring back those memories.
You’ll need a stapler, white and pale light-green tissue paper, scissors, green pipe cleaners, and green duct tape.
After making white clover blossoms and clover leaves out of tissue paper or paper tape, twist and wrap them together just like you would when making a real white clover crown to complete it!
Flower memo stand made with origami
Let’s gather the materials at a 100-yen shop and give it a try! Here’s an idea for making an origami flower memo stand.
A memo stand is an item that holds papers or cards with notes written on them, right? It’s practical because you can display messages or things you tend to forget.
What you’ll need: origami paper, wood glue, a needle bottle, tweezers, scissors, a wooden clip, and wire.
If you make the flowers with your favorite colors of origami paper, or colors that match the recipient’s image, your feelings are sure to come across.
Strawberry wreath
Here’s a spring-like strawberry wreath you can make with supplies from a 100-yen shop.
First, prepare the wreath base.
Apply glue and wrap yarn around it so there are no gaps.
For the strawberries, use red felt—you can also use red gingham fabric.
Cut the felt into circles, then fold each circle in half and cut.
Stitch small seed patterns with thread.
Fold each half-circle in half again, sew along the top edge, open it once to stuff with filling, then close it up.
Make the calyx from green felt and glue it on to finish the strawberry.
Use more green felt for leaves and white felt for flowers, then glue them onto the wreath to complete it.
The arrangement can create many different looks, so you’ll end up with a unique wreath of your own.
Give it a try!
Spring flower wreath
Introducing a spring-like floral wreath you can make with materials from a 100-yen shop.
Wrap yarn around the wreath base so there are no gaps, and attach a hanging string with glue.
For decorations, use yarn balls made by wrapping yarn around tissue paper, along with felt flowers.
To make the flowers, cut the felt into small triangles and glue them together.
When you open up the connected felt, the flower is complete.
It’s fun to add your favorite embellishments like ribbons to create a one-of-a-kind wreath.
Since the steps are simple, it’s also recommended as a recreational activity in senior facilities.
Simple bookmark
This is a bookmark craft we’d like older adults who enjoy reading to make.
Prepare chirimen fabric, apply double-sided tape to the back, and fold it in half.
Thread a string through with a needle.
It looks lovely to add decorations to the string, such as a small Styrofoam ball covered with chirimen, or other chirimen craft pieces.
Because this bookmark is easy to make, it should be approachable for older adults as well.
Having a handmade bookmark makes reading even more enjoyable.
Chirimen fabric is also available at 100-yen shops, so gathering materials is easy.
Flower-knot beads made with craft bands
Have you ever seen bags made with craft bands or eco-craft bands? Many bags woven from flat bands have a handmade warmth to them.
Here, we’ll introduce flower-knot beads made with craft bands.
Prepare three long, thinly cut strips of craft band and start weaving.
The technique may look complicated, but once you learn it, it should be easy to make.
Because you use your fingertips a lot while weaving, it can also help stimulate the brain.
Once you’ve finished weaving, trim the ends and sprinkle with water.
When water is applied, the adhesive on the band dissolves and then sets.
You can also make beads in different sizes and colors; thread a cord through them to create charms.
They’re recommended for attaching to keys or bags, especially for older adults.
Japanese-style cherry blossom wall decoration
We’d like to introduce a cherry blossom wall decoration made with origami.
Using three rectangular pieces of origami paper, you accordion-fold them to create cherry blossoms.
The accordion folds give the blossoms a three-dimensional look.
Once the blossoms are finished, attach them to a backing sheet.
Changing the color of the backing will change the mood of the decoration: black gives a chic feel, while yellow creates a calm atmosphere.
It might be nice to choose a backing color that suits the preferences of the older adults you’re making it with.
You could also have them take the finished piece home to display in their own space.