[Day Service] Spring Take-Home Crafts: Ideas to Warmly Brighten Your Room

Strap made with artificial flowers

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How about making a lovely strap using seasonal artificial flowers from the 100-yen shop? It’s easy to make, and using your fingertips helps stimulate the brain.

It may also help prevent cognitive decline.

First, make a ring with craft tape and fill it with paper clay.

Insert the artificial flowers and leaves into the clay and arrange them freely.

Attach a handle with craft tape, wrap on a netsuke cord, and you’re done.

By using flowers of the four seasons, you can enjoy it all year round.

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carnation

[100-Yen Shop DIY] Carnations Made with Tissue Paper ♡ Paper Flower

Let’s try recreating those distinctive petals using tissue paper! Here’s a carnation craft idea.

When you think of carnations, their charming, layered frilly petals come to mind.

Fresh flowers eventually wilt, but tissue paper carnations won’t, so they’re a great option.

You’ll need green construction paper, tissue paper, floral wire, a toothpick, scissors, a stapler, glue, a ruler, a pencil, and floral tape.

You can find the materials at a 100-yen shop! There are some detailed steps, but the finished carnation looks just like a real flower.

Give it a try!

Hina dolls

When it comes to major events in March, some older adults may think of the Peach Festival (Hinamatsuri).

Here’s a calendar featuring the Emperor and Empress dolls as a Hinamatsuri motif.

You can make hina dolls out of origami and attach them to the calendar.

Of course, you can also cut colored paper into the parts of the dolls and glue them on instead of using origami.

Creating the hina dolls might prompt some people to remember festivals they’ve spent with family.

Talking about those memories could make for lively conversation while working on the calendar.

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Hina Dolls and Dandelions

We’d like to introduce a calendar craft featuring Hina dolls that’s perfect for March.

Many older adults may remember celebrating the Doll’s Festival (Hinamatsuri) by displaying Hina dolls with their families.

As you create the calendar, you might recall lively, joyful times spent celebrating with your children or grandchildren.

Alongside the Emperor and Empress dolls, adding dandelions will make the calendar feel even more springlike.

It’s a piece that conveys the atmosphere and warmth of March right from the calendar itself.

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Let’s turn dandelions made with lots of fingertip work into a calendar.

Cut the tip of a long, narrow strip of construction paper.

Then roll the paper round and round to form the dandelion flower.

Attach the dandelions you made, along with leaves, to the calendar to finish.

Because it uses the fingers, it can not only stimulate the brain but also serve as functional training for fine motor skills.

Creating calendars and dandelions can help older adults feel the seasons.

How about adding spring elements like butterflies and ladybugs as well?

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Making a tulip calendar

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Tulips, which bloom with beautiful flowers from late March to early May, are one of the quintessential flowers of spring.

They come in a wide variety of colors, and seeing beds of colorful tulips may make some people feel the arrival of the season.

This time, we’re introducing a spring-themed calendar featuring drawings of tulip flowers.

Use a fine black pen to draw the tulips, then paint them with watercolors.

Light colors will create a gentle, soft feel, while bold colors can give a bright and lively impression.

Have fun coloring with your favorite shades.

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yarn dandelion

March is the season when you can feel the warmth, isn’t it? With the pleasant, cozy weather, some facilities may even organize strolls as recreational activities.

Outdoors in spring, you’ll often spot dandelions blooming along roadsides and in parks.

Seeing those small yellow dandelions will make the season feel even more tangible.

Creating a March calendar with a dandelion motif is a lovely idea, too.

If you use yarn for the flower part, you can capture the gentle feel of a dandelion.

Making a cute dandelion calendar is likely to spark lively conversation among older adults and those around them.

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