[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 up your room (31–40)
Washi-Modern Hina Dolls with Lace PaperNEW!
This is a perfect idea for Hinamatsuri! First, cut a sheet of patterned origami paper and a doily in half, then fold both sides inward like a kimono.
Slip the folded doily inside the origami so the lace peeks out from the kimono for extra cuteness.
Once you decide on the placement, glue it down firmly and add the face parts and accessories.
Next, color the backing paper, and stamp around the border with a dauber or a balloon to make it festive.
Finally, attach the hina dolls, and your handmade, modern-Japanese Hinamatsuri decoration is complete.
Its vibrant colors will instantly bring a spring feel to your room, and the making process is fun, too.
Origami Hina DollsNEW!
Let’s make the parts for the kimono, face, hair, hair ornament, and fan, and complete the Hina doll.
Use Japanese-pattern origami paper for the kimono.
Cut out a triangle at the center, attach the collar on the back, then fold it into a triangle.
Fold up both corners, then fold them back parallel.
Open the origami once and refold so that the bottom corner splits into two layers.
Fold the top of these two layers upward toward the back and pass it through the triangular opening to form the neck.
Next, fold in the left and right sides to make the sleeves, and fold the remaining bottom corner up to the back to finish the kimono! Make the remaining parts and complete your Hina doll.
Oni decorations made of felt
How about some cute ogre decorations that blend nicely with your interior? Use a plate about 18 cm in diameter and some thick paper to make a cone-shaped base.
Apply hot glue to felt and stick it onto the base to create the body and horns.
The hair is made with yarn and a pencil.
Make the ogre’s pants and drum from felt, and finish by making the eyes and mouth with beads and thread.
In addition to red and blue ogres, using colorful options like green or yellow will brighten up the walls of elderly care facilities.
They’re small and don’t take up much space, so they’re also great for decorating a room.
Red and Blue Oni made from wine corks
Even the oni from Setsubun, which can seem a bit scary, can be transformed into something very cute by using a wine cork.
First, paint the cork white with paint.
After that, paint it your preferred oni color.
It’s also nice to paint the oni’s pants using yellow and black paint.
Next, glue some curled yarn onto the cork as the oni’s hair.
Make the oni’s horns out of felt and stick them between the strands of hair.
Then draw the face with a pen, add any decorations you like, and it’s finished.
You can display it anywhere, so give it a try!
Plum blossom ornament
Decorations shaped like plum blossoms can create a scene that lets you feel the arrival of spring, even indoors.
The three-dimensional ornaments made by combining paper strips crafted from colored construction paper can be made in multiples and turned into a mobile to bring a spring atmosphere to your room.
If you prefer something simpler, you can use patterned origami or chiyogami, cut them into plum blossom shapes, and layer different colors and patterns for a cute effect.
Of course, combining both styles will make it even more festive, but since both involve using tools like scissors, glue, and a stapler, be sure to provide support if older adults are doing the crafting.
[Day Service] Spring Take-Home Crafts: Ideas to Warmly Brighten Your Room (41–50)
Hanging decoration of cherry blossoms in full bloom
Speaking of spring, cherry blossoms are an essential motif.
Designs that evoke cherry blossoms in full bloom make you feel the arrival of the warm season and lift your spirits.
Here’s a decoration that incorporates such a cherry blossom design, made with paper plates and origami.
Cut out the center of a paper plate, attach semi-transparent chiyogami printed with a cherry blossom design, and scatter cherry-blossom-shaped origami pieces around the edge.
It’s a meticulous process of steadily attaching small cherry blossoms, but the more flowers you add, the more three-dimensional and beautiful the result becomes—so patience is key.
Finally, punch holes and connect the pieces to complete the decoration.
Vary the circle sizes and the number of pieces to create your own unique decoration.
Small flower bouquet
You can make a bouquet of tulips out of felt with just a few simple steps.
All you need are felt in your favorite colors, glue, and a ribbon.
First, cut the felt into thin strips to create parts for the flowers, stems, and leaves.
For the flower pieces, make small slits and round off the corners, then overlap them slightly as you glue and roll them up.
For the stems, roll long, narrow pieces tightly.
Cut the leaves into leaf shapes, and glue everything together to finish.
A single stem looks cute on its own, but if you make several and tie them with a ribbon, you’ll have a spring-like bouquet.
If you prepare the felt in advance, this craft is also great for recreational activities or finger rehabilitation in senior care settings.
Give it a try!
