[For Seniors] Simple and Fun: Craft Ideas You Can Make with Everyday Items
What we introduce here are easy craft ideas for older adults.
They’re all easy to incorporate into recreational activities at senior facilities such as day service centers.
Using familiar, everyday materials, these crafts are simple to make, making it easy for seniors to give them a try.
We hope you’ll use craft-making to help stimulate both mind and body.
Since it involves using the hands, it also serves as brain training and can help prevent dementia.
Be sure to read this article and use it as a reference for craft activities.
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[For Seniors] Simple and Fun: Craft Ideas You Can Make with Everyday Items (31–40)
Swaying Rocking Horse
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How about a hobby horse craft that makes clever use of paper tubes and twigs? Cut corrugated cardboard into the shape of a horse’s profile and make slits in both the cardboard and a paper tube, then secure them with a hot glue gun.
Attach four twigs to the body to serve as legs, and fix slightly curved twigs to each side.
Those curved twigs are the key to creating that gentle rocking motion! Once you make the mane and tail with string or yarn, your hobby horse is complete.
Put the twigs you collected on a walk or from your garden to good use and create a charming hobby horse.
Tissue Paper Art: Horse
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We’d like to introduce a horse artwork in the style of torn-paper collage using tissue paper.
First, prepare a sketch of the horse’s outline.
Instead of coloring it in, tear tissue paper into small pieces and tint them with paint.
Once dry, lightly roll or stretch the pieces to shape them, then glue them onto the sketch.
You’ll end up with a softly textured, three-dimensional piece.
The fluffy feel evokes the horse’s coat and gives a warmth that’s different from ordinary coloring.
There are no difficult steps, and it doesn’t require much strength, making it perfect for older adults.
By changing the colors you use, you can create a white horse, a chestnut horse, and more—tailoring the expression to your liking.
A three-dimensional horse made with paper cores
@arooshkhan657 empty tissue roll horse#papercraftsforkids
♬ Chal Mere Ghode Chal Tik Tik – B2 Kids
Let’s try making an adorable horse using a paper tube and colored construction paper.
Draw the horse’s face and legs on thick paper to create templates, then trace them onto brown construction paper and cut them out.
Wrap the colored paper around the paper tube to form the body, and attach a yarn mane to the head.
Use white and pink paper to make and glue on the mouth, eyes, and ears.
Once you add the saddle—a piece of equipment for a rider—then fix the tail and legs in place, it’s complete! This horse ornament, fun to look at, is sure to bring comfort to older adults.
It’s easy to make with familiar materials, so give it a try.
a walking horse
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This is a gentle-moving horse craft made with paper cups.
First, take one paper cup and turn it into a horse by attaching ears, a mane, and a tail made from construction paper, and drawing patterns with a pen.
For the other paper cup, create a simple mechanism using a rubber band and a battery to make it move.
By winding the rubber band to create twist and letting it spin, the horse paper cup stacked on top will start to wobble and shake.
It looks adorable, and when it moves, it’s like a little horse is running.
All the materials are easy to find, and there are no complicated steps, so you can make it with confidence.
After it’s done, you can even race them on a desk—an imaginative craft full of playful fun.
A horse with a yarn mane
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♬ Originalton – Hej.maiken
This is a craft where you draw a horse on construction paper or cardstock and add a mane using your favorite yarn.
The overall look changes dramatically depending on how you make it—lay the yarn piece by piece in flowing lines, or make it stand up as if blowing in the wind.
Switching colors to create a gradient is beautiful too, and you can express your ideal horse, like a white horse or a chestnut.
Adding eyes and markings makes it even more lifelike.
The soft texture of the yarn makes the crafting time soothing and calming.
It’s a horse craft idea that sparks the imagination and is especially recommended for older adults.
[For Seniors] Easy and Fun: Craft Ideas You Can Make with Everyday Items (41–50)
Horse made from a paper cup
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This is a cute, moving horse craft made with paper cups.
For the head cup, attach a yarn mane and use pens or stickers to make the eyes and nose.
Add ears made from construction paper to complete a face full of expression.
For the body cup, attach accordion-folded construction paper legs to create a light, lively movement.
Finally, hang it from above with a bamboo skewer so it sways and looks as if it’s running—that’s the charm.
By changing the colors of the yarn and stickers, you can enjoy making unique horses like white or black ones.
Craft time will become a pleasantly refreshing break.
Horse made with a paper plate
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A horse made from a paper plate that instantly brightens up a space is perfect as a wall decoration or an ornament.
After coloring a white paper plate with brown or black paint, attach a muzzle piece made from construction paper.
Draw the nose and mouth in any style you like to give your horse a unique personality.
Add a fine mane and ears, and finish by attaching the eyes.
You can make the eyes from construction paper, or use googly-eye stickers available at 100-yen shops.
This craft is ideal for seniors’ fine motor exercise, involving actions like gluing pieces together and applying paint with a brush.