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

Making an April calendar with clay crafts

Why not make a spring-like cherry blossom calendar using clay and craft bands? Use small pieces of green clay to shape leaves.

Add veins with a craft band, then fold each leaf in half.

Twist a moistened craft band to create tree branches.

Use light pink clay to form buds.

With scissors, shape them into cherry blossoms.

After softly drawing a background with pastels on construction paper (or similar), attach the branches.

Bend them to evoke real tree branches for a more lifelike look.

Apply brown clay where you’ll attach the blossoms, then add the cherry blossoms and leaves to finish.

It’s lovely to include your favorite words, such as a senryu or haiku.

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Strawberry Crepe Calendar Arrangement

[Cute Origami] Make-believe play that’s exciting to create: “Easy Crepes with 3D Strawberries,” plus a calendar arrangement version! #WallDecor Preschool Craft

When it comes to fruits you want to eat in spring, many people probably think of strawberries.

Just imagining strawberry desserts or going strawberry picking is exciting, isn’t it? Let’s make a calendar themed around a crepe featuring strawberries! There are many ways to fold paper strawberries, so choose the method that suits you.

Attach three strawberries to yellow cellophane, then add a half piece of lace paper.

Fold it into a fan shape and glue it down to complete a cute crepe.

Glue the calendar onto construction paper and attach the crepe.

For extra flair, decorate with spring motifs like clovers to make it even more festive!

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Making a calendar with drawing

I tried making a calendar for April 2024!! #drawing #handmade #calendar

Try making a calendar featuring your own drawings or paintings.

Some older adults may be especially good at drawing.

Ask them to create illustrations or paintings that evoke April or spring, and add color to complete a lovely calendar.

You can even have them write in the dates.

It will be a one-of-a-kind, original calendar.

For those who aren’t confident in drawing, spring-themed coloring pages are also recommended.

Please use this as a reference when creating a beautiful calendar.

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Hanging decorations for Children’s Day

[Felt] How to Make a Children’s Day Hanging Decoration (No Sewing) — Just Cut and Glue! Perfect with Koinobori 🎏✨

Speaking of May, it’s Children’s Day.

Let’s make a hanging decoration to boost the festive mood! This idea uses felt, but since you assemble it by gluing instead of sewing, it’s easy for seniors to try as well.

First, make a template—thick paper or cardstock works fine.

Trace the template onto the felt and cut it out.

Carefully finish each piece by gluing it together.

Try making lots of Children’s Day–themed motifs like carp streamers (koinobori), oak leaf rice cakes (kashiwa mochi), samurai helmets (kabuto), and festival banners.

They’re so cute that your grandchildren would love receiving them as a gift!

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Making a calendar with cherry blossom posters

[Day Service Functional Training] April Calendar Creation

Let’s make a calendar decorated with cherry blossoms made of paper.

Use long, narrow strips of paper, folding and bending them into the shape of cherry petals.

If you want to make a more elaborate version, paper quilling is recommended.

You roll thin strips of paper around a tool and build your piece as you go.

Prepare pink or red construction paper or origami paper beneath the folded cherry blossom petals to enhance the cherry blossom atmosphere.

Creating this may also help some older adults recall memories of enjoying cherry blossom viewing.

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Making a calendar with sakura (cherry blossom) eraser stamps

[Eraser Stamps 🌸] Making an April calendar with a cherry blossom eraser stamp 🌸 with gradient shading

Eraser stamps are made by carving patterns into an eraser.

A carving knife is handy for the cutting, but depending on the design, you can make them with a utility knife as well.

For seniors who enjoy handmade crafts, stamp making can be a lot of fun.

Since cherry blossoms are at their best in April, let’s make a calendar by creating and stamping cherry blossoms with an eraser stamp.

Using just pink ink is fine, but it’s also lovely to change the color at the tips of the petals.

Try experimenting with how you apply the ink.

Including branches will add atmosphere and make the piece look even nicer.

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Making a dandelion calendar

April Calendar Making 🗓️ Magokoro no Kōbōan

In April, you can sometimes find fields and parks filled with lots of small, yellow dandelion flowers.

Just looking at them makes you feel the warm, cozy spring weather.

Let’s add some handmade dandelions to an April calendar.

You can make them by accordion-folding and cutting construction paper or using origami.

Creating a calendar with a dandelion coloring page would be lovely, too.

Since you can do the craft while seated at a table, it encourages conversation with those around you and helps promote communication.

It’s also nice that you can display the finished calendar at home.

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