[For Seniors] Wall decorations to fully enjoy the seasonal atmosphere: Fun Christmas decoration ideas

Christmas bell

[Origami] How to Fold a Christmas Bell (Origami Time)

One of the major events in December is Christmas.

Aren’t the streets and interiors adorned with luxurious and festive Christmas decorations? Christmas bells are an essential item for holiday decor.

Try making Christmas bells out of origami or construction paper and create a calendar.

If you add items like a Christmas wreath or a Christmas tree to the calendar as well, you’ll have a calendar perfect for December.

Besides a calendar, handmade Christmas bells also look lovely displayed on the wall.

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House of Chimneys

[1 Sheet Origami] Christmas Easy Cute Chimney House Folding Method (Slow/Step-by-Step Tutorial)

There’s also the story that Santa Claus comes down the chimney at Christmas, isn’t there? It’s exciting to imagine him arriving at night in a sleigh pulled by reindeer.

The chimney is what Santa uses to deliver presents to the children inside the house.

Let’s try making a house with a chimney out of origami and add it to a calendar.

You can make both the house and the chimney from a single sheet of origami paper.

The folding method is simple, so it may be easy for seniors to make, too.

By changing the folding steps, you can create versions with different chimney positions and house colors.

Try making a piece that suits the preferences of the seniors.

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Christmas tree

Day Service Fukaya Magokoro no Kōbōan: We’re making the December calendar♪

When you think of the biggest event in December… yes, it’s Christmas.

These days, it feels like fewer people shy away from Christmas by saying their religion is different—how is it around you? It’s said that Christmas began to take root in Japan around 1900.

A calendar featuring a Christmas tree as the main motif feels perfectly December-like and lovely.

Folding stars out of origami for the tree and using beads for ornaments makes creating it even more fun.

Cotton is perfect for adding a three-dimensional snowy effect!

Santa Claus and Presents

With You Mizonokuchi: December Calendar Craft – Christmas

The gold coins that Saint Nicholas threw into poor households happened to land in stockings that were drying by the fireplace.

Thanks to those coins, everyone became happy.

From this anecdote came the custom of putting Christmas presents in stockings.

It’s a lovely story, isn’t it? Did you also receive presents in your stockings when you were children? Let’s use Santa and presents as decorations for the calendar.

Presents can be box-shaped, a big sack, or of course the stocking type—anything is OK! It would be great to create a colorful calendar!

gingerbread man

[Christmas Origami] Easy, Cute Gingerbread Man Folding Method / Origami Gingerbread Man

Do you know the Gingerbread Man? It’s the brown, person-shaped figure you often see during the Christmas season.

That’s called a Gingerbread Man, and it’s a human figure made from gingerbread or ginger cookies.

These days, it appears not only at Christmas but also at Halloween and Easter in different shapes.

How about folding a gingerbread man with origami and making a calendar? Adding small accents like a ribbon or a hat is the key to making it extra cute!

Christmas tree made with an eraser stamp

[Eraser stamps] I’m making a December calendar with Christmas stamps 🎄

Eraser stamps are a lot of fun, even if you feel a little sorry for the eraser itself.

A similar activity might be the rubber block prints we made in elementary school art class, right? I remember carving the zodiac animals to use on New Year’s cards.

If you’re good with your hands, making a calendar with eraser prints would be great, too.

Try carving Christmas-related motifs like fir trees, stars, presents, and snow.

Your sense of style will show in how you combine them and arrange the colors.

And please be very careful with the carving tools!

Simple Christmas decorations

[Christmas Origami] Easy! Cute Santa, Reindeer, Tree, and Snowman Folding Instructions / Christmas Decorations Ornaments – Origami Christmas Ornament

These days, supermarkets and convenience stores start putting up Christmas decorations even before December.

It’s exciting how the year-end mood suddenly ramps up, but there’s also something a bit lonely about the year coming to a close.

How about you all? I think a calendar featuring all the Christmas characters—Santa, reindeer, snowmen—would be a lot of fun.

You can make them all, including the Christmas tree, by arranging triangles.

If there’s a chance to make it together, you could even divide up the tasks—like having Yamada-san make the reindeer.