[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 (11–20)
Koinobori wall decoration made with craft bands

How about making a wall decoration packed with the charm of May using origami and craft bands? First, prepare a craft band and attach double-sided tape to the end.
Shape it into a ring, then wrap thread around it as if drawing a line through the center.
Also wrap thread so that it hangs down on the left and right.
Using your favorite origami paper, make carp streamers (koinobori), streamers, pinwheels, samurai helmets (kabuto), and a banner flag, then use double-sided tape to attach them to the threads.
Secure them from the back with glue so they don’t fall off.
Add embellishments with pearl stickers, adjust the ring shape, and you’re done.
Although there are some fine tasks, using your fingertips can help prevent cognitive decline, so this is also recommended as occupational therapy or recreation in senior care facilities.
Hanging ornaments of plum blossoms and Japanese bush warblers

Here’s a seasonal hanging decoration you can make with materials from a 100-yen shop.
First, make the base: cut paper straws into short pieces and thread a pipe cleaner through them to form a pentagon.
Next, the Japanese bush warbler.
Cut green origami paper and washi paper into circles, layer them, and glue them together.
Add a beak and tail from origami, and stick on eye stickers to finish the bird.
For the plum blossoms, cut pink origami into small circles, layer and glue them, and add a bead at the center.
Attach the decorations to the base, add a hanging string, and it’s complete.
The plum blossoms and bush warbler seem to herald the arrival of spring.
Please give it a try and display it!
Flower message stand

Let me introduce a flower message stand made with felt, cork, and wire.
Prepare felt in the colors you like for the flowers and leaves.
For the flower, cut a strip of felt and make three slits along it; thread the felt through the slits to create twists.
After threading through all three slits, apply glue and roll it up from one end.
For the leaves, cut the felt into leaf shapes.
Bend the wire into a circle, extend one end downward, and stick it into a cork.
Use two more corks and attach them so the wire stands firmly.
Once you decorate the cork area with the leaves and flower, it’s complete.
With a message stand like this, you’ll find yourself wanting to tuck little notes into it.
Spring floral arrangement

Here’s a frame arrangement using materials you can get at a 100-yen shop.
Display it by your front door or in a room to easily bring a sense of spring.
All you need is a frame and artificial flowers.
First, remove the back panel of the frame and check the size.
When attaching the artificial flowers to the back panel, be careful not to let them overlap the edges, or the frame won’t close.
Decide on a layout with a focal flower in the center and surrounding flowers, then trim the stems and attach them slightly inward so the back can close.
If you can close it without crushing the flowers, you’re done.
The steps are simple, making it a great activity for recreation in senior facilities as well.
Hanging Hina Dolls Made with Jam LidsNEW!
@an_hoiku_seisaku I made a hanging Hina decoration using jam jar lids 🎎 Check my previous post for the origami Hina dolls! They’re super easy ✨#HinamatsuriCraft#Childcare Crafting#Production VideoMarchHina DollsProduction#Nursery school
♬ cute kawaii – nanaacom
Let’s make an original hanging decoration using jam jar lids, origami paper, construction paper, tissue paper, and kite string.
The origami part will be Hina dolls.
First, fold up two adjacent edges.
Fold so that the folded section and the remaining section are the same width.
Draw faces on the remaining white area, and fold up the bottom corner to finish.
With construction paper, we’ll make a spherical ornament: cut it into circles, fold them in half, then stack and glue them together.
Attach the Hina dolls and ornaments to the kite string, tie them to a lid frame (with only the rim remaining), and finish by gluing rolled-up tissue paper to the side.
Hanging Hina Dolls Made with Paper PlatesNEW!
@chii_1514m Hinamatsuri craft [Hanging Hina made with a paper plate]This time we made Hina dolls you can hang as decorations 🎎🌸When you look up from below, the paper plate’s pattern adds a nice accent and looks cute 💕There are many steps, so it may go more smoothly if you divide roles between the teacher and the children ✂️If there’s anything unclear or anything you’re curious about during the process, please leave a comment 😌🩵I’d be happy if you follow me ☺️#HinamatsuriCraftHina Doll MakingProduction#HinamatsuriHanging ornament
♬ New Sun – Chihei Hatakeyama
This is a paper-plate hanging decoration you’ll want to display in your room.
First, glue torn pieces of pink and white tissue paper onto a paper plate.
Then make a hole in the center of the plate and thread yarn tied to a straw through it.
On the opposite side, add a bead as a stopper and glue it in place.
Thread twine through the straw and attach paper hina dolls made from construction paper to the end.
Punch four holes at the bottom of the paper plate, thread yarn decorated with paper peach blossoms and circular ornaments through them, and tie to finish.
Simply changing the colors of the tissue paper and construction paper will give it a different feel.
[Day Service] Spring take-home crafts: Introducing ideas to warmly brighten your room (21–30)
Hanging Hina decoration made with accordion foldingNEW!
@mii_no_seisak If you want the pattern, follow my Instagram and comment “Ohinasama” (Hina dolls)! @mii_no_seisaku ◀︎ Search this on Instagram💕 🎎 Accordion-fold Hina dolls Just make an accordion fold in the origami: mountain, valley, mountain, valley. When you open it, it spreads out like a kimono—Hina doll complete✨ For infants, it’s fine just to experience the folding motion◎ Adults can help with the finishing touches. [Materials] • Origami paper • Glue • Face parts (construction paper) [Tips] • Make the fold width larger • It doesn’t have to line up perfectly • Enjoy the shape when you spread it out Easy prep, so you won’t rush even right before the event 🎎 Save this and use it before Hinamatsuri✨ .・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。 At @mii_no_seisaku, a current nursery teacher and mom of a 10-year-old and a baby share: 💞 A craft activity you can decide in 5 minutes for tomorrow 💞 Almost zero material cost! Use supplies already in your classroom✨ We’ll introduce handmade activities you can enjoy at home or in childcare🙆♀️ .・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。Hinamatsuri#japanNursery teacher / Childcare workerTranslationOrigami
♬ Cute heartwarming song(1425147) – sanusagi
Let me show you how to make a hanging Hina decoration that anyone can create easily.
First, accordion-fold a plain sheet of origami paper and fold it in half.
Then, sandwich a patterned origami paper folded the same way inside and glue them together.
This will become the body of the Hina doll.
After that, just attach a face and small accessories made from construction paper and you’re done.
Next, let’s make decorations like peach blossoms and hishi-mochi.
Tie kite string to a base made from a tapioca (bubble tea) straw, then glue on the Hina dolls and the decorations, and you’re all set! If cutting out the parts is difficult, prepare them in advance.



