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[For Seniors] Simple and Fun: Craft Ideas You Can Make with Everyday Items

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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.

[For Seniors] Easy and Fun: Craft Ideas You Can Make with Everyday Items (41–50)

acorn beanbags

Let’s gather acorns and try making handmade beanbags♪

acorn beanbags

Modern people live surrounded by digital gadgets, and it feels like we don’t play games like beanbag juggling as much anymore.

Making beanbags with acorns could be a fun way to feel like a kid again.

Some people might even be surprisingly skilled, almost like professional jugglers! When using acorns for beanbags, start with proper prep.

First, wash them thoroughly and either boil them or freeze them to eliminate insects.

Next, sun-dry them completely.

It’s also effective to leave them for a while in a plastic bag together with a desiccant.

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Hair tie / bracelet

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Hair tie / bracelet

Why not try making accessories like hair ties or bracelets using long, thin fabric scraps? If the length isn’t enough, you can piece fabrics together.

First, place the fabric right sides together and sew with a 1 cm seam allowance, then turn it right side out to form a tube.

Next, prepare a 50 cm length of yarn and thread it through the fabric.

Sew a ring elastic to one end of the fabric, then prepare another elastic; thread the fabric through them in a figure-eight pattern to finish.

The thickness of the fabric and the diameter of the elastic will change the volume and fit, so you can adjust them to suit your purpose.

The finished items are lightweight, easy to wear, and great for both your wrist and your hair.

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Handmade kadomatsu made from paper products and felt

[New Year Decorations] How to Make a Mini Kadomatsu

Handmade kadomatsu made from paper products and felt

Many handmade creations convey the warmth and feelings of their makers.

A kadomatsu crafted with construction paper, tissue paper flowers, or felt might be one of those, too.

You can create a beautifully detailed kadomatsu that exudes handcrafted warmth using materials sold at 100-yen shops and the like.

Using toilet paper rolls as the base of the kadomatsu is also recommended.

By combining recycled materials, it can be effective both in terms of cost and for the environment, don’t you think? Adding tissue-paper flower decorations to the kadomatsu gives it a soft, gentle finish.

It’s said that older adults, too, can feel a sense of accomplishment from creating their own pieces using recycled and familiar materials.

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Tabletop kadomatsu

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Let’s make a tabletop kadomatsu (traditional New Year’s pine decoration) using a milk carton.

We’ll place decorative elements that form the kadomatsu inside pieces cut from the carton.

There are detailed steps such as folding origami or construction paper and cutting short lengths of plastic ribbon.

Because it uses fine motor skills extensively, it can stimulate the brain and may offer brain-training benefits.

It’s also a project that can help improve concentration.

Starting from a simple milk carton and building it up into a splendid kadomatsu is likely to delight older adults as well.

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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.

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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.

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A three-dimensional horse made with paper cores

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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.

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