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

Pochi-bukuro (small decorative envelope for gifting money)

[DIY Work Video] [100-yen Shop Budget-Friendly] Easy! How to Make a Koinobori Gift Envelope – Golden Week & Children’s Day – Left-Handed Tutorial

Let’s try making a small money envelope (pochibukuro) shaped like a carp streamer (koinobori).

In many older adults’ households, people still raise koinobori or display samurai helmets (kabuto) for the Boys’ Festival in May, don’t they? Since the Boys’ Festival and Children’s Day fall during Golden Week, it’s also a time when grandchildren or relatives’ children might gather.

In such situations, it would be nice to give them a gift tucked into a handmade koinobori pochibukuro.

The steps to make the envelopes aren’t complicated, so they should be easy for older adults to create as well.

Plus, handmade pochibukuro can be threaded onto a string to make a garland, so they can also be used as indoor decorations.

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Nakajima Junko

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Message Card

[Children’s Day] How to make a message card with Kintaro and carp streamers

Let’s try making a message card for Children’s Day.

We especially encourage older adults who have grandchildren to make a Children’s Day message card.

Create items that evoke Children’s Day or the Boys’ Festival using origami or construction paper, and attach them to the card.

For example, carp streamers (koinobori), iris flowers, or Kintaro are great motifs.

Besides crafting with paper, you can also write a message with a brush or draw a picture.

A heartfelt, handmade card is sure to delight the recipient.

If you like, please use this as inspiration to create a wonderful message card.

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Nakajima Junko

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Tulips made with pipe cleaners

Let's make 'Easy Chenille Stem Tulips' at the mall as a small gift for occasions like presenting them to teachers at a preschool graduation, a handmade Mother's Day present, cute handmade DIY accessories, or a little gift for an anniversary.

How about making a cute bouquet of tulips using chenille stems (pipe cleaners)? You’ll need pipe cleaners, wire for the stems, and floral tape.

Use the pipe cleaners to make the tulip petals and leaves.

Make six petals for each tulip.

Attach the petals to the wire, securing them with floral tape while checking the balance.

Once finished, gently press to adjust the overall shape.

It’s also adorable to make lots of colorful tulips and arrange them into a bouquet.

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Bouquet of pipe cleaners

[With Kids] Handmade Gift: Pipe Cleaner Flower Bouquet 💐 Thank You, Teacher • Thank-You Party • Graduation Ceremony • Cute Handmade • Easier Than Origami • Pipe Cleaner Bear • Pipe Cleaner Doll • Elementary School Crafts • Kindergarten • Nursery School • 100-Yen Shop DIY • Craft

If you’re making a bouquet, how about a pipe-cleaner bouquet that you can easily create using just pipe cleaners and beads? It’s also recommended as a gift for someone special.

You’ll make the petals with pipe cleaners, but this part requires fine, detailed work.

Please do the slightly tricky steps together with a care worker.

For older adults, it engages the fingers and the mind, providing good stimulation for the brain.

It’s a task you can quietly focus on, so it helps improve concentration as well.

It’s also a project that’s easy for beginners in crafts to try.

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Nanaka

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Gogatsu Ningyo (Boys’ Day dolls)

[Felt] How to Make Boys’ Festival Dolls [No Sewing Required] For Children’s Day 🎏 to go with carp streamers…

Let’s make a cute Boys’ Day doll out of felt without any sewing.

Use decorative balls—so-called pom-poms—from the 100-yen shop and stick on the armor and other parts.

Use a pom-pom for the face as well, and place a helmet on it.

If cutting small parts seems difficult, you can prepare just the parts in advance and simply have them assembled.

It’s fun because the finished dolls have a variety of expressions depending on the maker.

Please give it a try!

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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A wreath of double-flowered cherry blossoms

Before the blooming declaration is announced, let’s get excited by folding cherry blossoms! An origami double-flowered cherry blossom wreath 🌸 Origami Cherry Blossoms Wreath #papercraftsounds #paperflowers #diycrafts

Many seniors eagerly look forward to the cherry blossoms blooming, don’t they? Before the blossoms open outdoors, why not fold cherry blossoms indoors and feel the arrival of spring a little early? This delicate craft is completed by making several small cherry blossoms and layering them.

There are many fine steps, but you’ll feel a real sense of accomplishment when it’s finished.

Let’s make each petal one by one using small pink origami paper.

Glue the petals together, attach the leaves, and your cherry blossom is complete.

Make several blossoms to form a wreath, or decorate a garland or a wall—any of these would look lovely.

Enjoy trying different arrangements!

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Koinobori made with Japanese-style origami

[Easy] 3D ✨ Carp Streamer Craft 🎏 [100-yen Origami] How to Make Carp-shaped Streamers

Here is a three-dimensional koi nobori (carp streamer) made from Japanese-style origami paper that you can easily find at 100-yen shops.

You first make the koi nobori’s body flat, then add slits and fold along them to turn it into a three-dimensional shape, which is the fun part.

For the koi nobori’s pole, roll copy paper around a toothpick or skewer.

Apply glue to the slit section of the body and attach the pole there.

The colorful washi patterns are very cute and will brighten the atmosphere when placed in an entryway or living room.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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