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

Collage with stickers and paper postings

[Easy Collage] I made a collage of the April calendar 🌸 [Calendar]

Let’s collage a simple April calendar with a spring vibe! We’ll add cherry blossom washi tape and patterned papers.

Fill any empty spaces with your favorite flake stickers, like petals or animals.

All the washi tape and stickers used here were purchased at a 100-yen shop.

Since 100-yen shops carry a wide variety of stickers, you can pick your favorites to create a fun, original calendar.

A calendar in full-bloom sakura will warm your heart every time you look at it.

Give it a try!

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Making a calendar using your favorite flowers and plants

[Making the 2021 calendar] April

When spring arrives, older adults may have more opportunities to go outside for a walk, don’t you think? When you visit a park, try picking some flowers and leaves and turning them into a calendar.

Creating with seasonal plants might help older adults recall memories of spring days from the past.

It could also spark conversation and broaden social connections.

For those who have difficulty going out, using dried spring flowers is also recommended.

Calendars made with dried sweet peas or mimosa would be lovely, too.

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Making a calendar with origami

Day Service Fukaya: Magokoro no Koubouan – April Calendar Production

As April arrives, there are more and more days when we can feel the warmth, aren’t there? Let’s make a calendar decorated with spring flowers and insects out of origami.

You can create the origami pieces while sitting and chatting with others.

Making spring-themed origami might spark lively conversations about past springtime memories.

Origami also uses your fingers a lot, and using your fingers is said to stimulate and activate the brain.

It would be nice to think together with older adults about things that evoke spring and then make them with origami.

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Pressed Flower Calendar

A simple way to make a pressed flower calendar! Great as a gift, too!!

How about using pressed flowers for an April calendar? Some older adults may have fond memories of making and enjoying pressed flowers.

All you need are a calendar backing sheet and pressed flowers.

Use small and large blooms, and even stems together.

Traditionally, pressed flowers are made by placing them between heavy books, but you can also try quick methods using a microwave or an iron.

Once you’ve arranged the flowers in any design you like, place a cover film over the pressed flowers.

Creating a pressed-flower calendar with blossoms you find on a walk in the warm April weather would make a lovely memory.

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Three-dimensional helmet

Wall decoration for Boys’ Day in May made with colored construction paper: “Samurai Helmet”

Some households display May dolls and helmets for Children’s Day, don’t they? The kabuto helmets and armor of May dolls carry the wish that “they will protect our child.” Let’s make a kabuto that’s perfect for a May wall display and celebrate Children’s Day.

You can download the template in this video, so please have it ready.

Place the template on construction paper, cut along it, and make the parts.

A key tip is to score along the template in advance so it will fold easily later—you can do this easily with scissors.

Assemble the pieces so each one becomes three-dimensional.

Some steps are a bit challenging, so when making this with older adults, please have staff members work together with them to complete it.

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Full-bloom Sakura Calendar

[Beginner Work Video] Creating a March Full-Bloom Cherry Blossom Calendar

Let’s make a spring-themed calendar using a design sheet with cherry blossoms.

Attach double-sided tape to the back of a transparent sheet and stick it in the center of a cherry-blossom-patterned letter paper.

Place a small calendar in the upper right, and add more flair by applying design sheets or stickers cut into cherry blossom shapes.

Rounding the four corners of the letter paper with a corner punch will give it a softer look.

A cherry blossom–themed calendar evokes the warm mood of spring and is sure to soothe you every time you look at it.

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clover

(Origami / copy paper) Easy! How to make a clover [DIY]

Here’s how to make an easy and cute clover.

A craft punch that cuts paper into heart shapes makes it go faster, but you can use scissors too.

Prepare two sheets of green paper—one dark and one light—and cut out heart shapes.

Layer the leaves with a piece of wire sandwiched between them, and glue them together.

Make several of these.

Bend the leaves, bundle them, and wrap them with green floral tape to form three-leaf or four-leaf clovers.

Pour pebbles or beads into a small container and insert the clovers to enjoy them like houseplants.

Since it’s safe to make, it’s also recommended as a recreation activity in senior facilities.

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