[For Seniors] Lovely Crafts Made with Tissue Paper: Ideas Collection
Tissue paper, widely known as a craft material for making paper flowers.
Its wide range of colors and ease of handling make it especially appealing.
These days, you can even find it at 100-yen shops, making it more accessible and widely used for crafts, wall decorations, and more.
In this article, we’ll introduce craft ideas using tissue paper.
Enjoy its soft, fluffy texture as you crumple it, cut it with scissors, and—beyond making flowers—try creating items like translucent lampshades.
Let’s make all kinds of things with tissue paper and incorporate them as seasonal craft ideas!
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[For Seniors] Lovely crafts made with tissue paper: Idea collection (31–40)
Pressed Flower Calendar
Introducing a pressed flower calendar that captures seasonal blossoms and plants, letting you enjoy the beauty of nature.
Pick flowers and foliage yourself, carefully dry and press them, and pair them with the monthly calendar to create a gently colored, richly expressive piece.
By changing the types of flowers and plants, you can reflect the seasonal feeling of each month.
Lamination turns it into a long-lasting interior decoration, and its natural, warm charm makes it a perfect gift.
Going for walks to find flowers for pressing, and the process of making the pressed flowers and calendar, also involve planning, physical activity, and fine motor practice—activities that may help prevent cognitive decline.
Making teru teru bozu dolls with tissue paper
Here’s a perfect rainy-season craft: making a teru-teru bozu out of tissue paper.
Prepare a toy golf ball, tissue paper, wire, felt-tip pens, and round stickers.
Create the teru-teru bozu’s face using the golf ball, adding eyes and a nose with the round stickers and felt-tip pens.
Stack several sheets of tissue paper and open them one by one, then wrap wire around the center.
For the outfit, prepare three colors of tissue paper, cut them into squares, fold them like a napkin and then in half, trace a guide with a pencil, and cut along the line with scissors.
When you open it, it will be flower-shaped.
Make the remaining two tissue papers the same way.
Thread the three flower-shaped tissue papers onto the wire, glue them together, and then thread the pre-holed face onto the wire to finish.
Adding original decorations like ribbons or stickers would make it even cuter.
Full-bloom cherry blossoms made with tissue paper
Here’s a craft made with tissue paper that looks like fully bloomed double-flowered cherry blossoms.
Accordion-fold the tissue paper and tie the center with a plastic string.
A key tip is to split the ends of the plastic string; the frayed ends will stand in for the stamens and pistils of the cherry blossom.
Cut the tips of the accordion fold as well, then fan it out and shape it.
This will let you express the many layered petals of a double cherry blossom.
The plump, rounded blossoms are likely to delight older adults, too.
If you also make a cherry tree and decorate it with the double blossoms, you can enjoy a hanami atmosphere indoors.
cherry blossoms in full bloom
The sight of cherry blossoms in full bloom tells us that spring has arrived, doesn’t it? Here’s how to make items that let you enjoy hanami indoors.
Stack five sheets of tissue paper, accordion-fold them, and staple the center.
Round off the edges of the paper with scissors.
Then, gently separate and fluff each layer one by one to create soft, three-dimensional cherry blossoms.
If you lay pale pink or white paper in the background, you can evoke a gentle, spring-like atmosphere.
You can also fold origami paper into a triangle and cut out petal shapes; attach the pieces, and your wall decoration is complete.
June bride
Introducing a wall decoration with a June bride theme, surrounded by beautiful roses.
Prepare tissue paper in your favorite colors; crumple it, then shape it to create rose blossoms.
Make the leaves in the same way.
The more varieties of flower colors you use, the more vibrant it will look.
Cut out silhouettes of a man and a woman from black construction paper, then paste them onto a pale-colored background along with the flowers and leaves.
You’ll have a lovely couple encircled by flowers.
Since the process isn’t complicated, it’s easy to use as occupational therapy in senior facilities, and it might even spark lively conversations like, “Back when I was young…”
[For Seniors] Lovely Crafts Made with Tissue Paper: Idea Collection (41–50)
Iris made with tissue paper
Why not try making an iris flower wall decoration using tissue paper? Prepare blue or purple and yellow tissue paper, as well as green construction paper.
Cut the blue and yellow tissue paper into small squares.
Glue one blue and one yellow piece together to create the flowers.
There are several steps that involve using scissors, so please have staff assist anyone who is not comfortable with scissors.
Use the green construction paper to make stems and leaves, then display them on the wall.
The contrast between deep blue or purple and yellow will create beautiful iris flowers.
Craft activities are great for finger dexterity training and dementia prevention.
Everyone, give it a try!
paper stained glass
Let’s try making a stained-glass-style craft using tissue paper.
You often see stained glass in churches and public buildings.
Stained glass features brightly colored glass framed in black, creating patterns that look beautiful when sunlight shines through and illuminates the interior.
For this project, you’ll create the frame with black construction paper and attach tissue paper cut to match the template.
This helps develop fine motor skills and can stimulate the brain.
When you stick the finished piece on a window, the tissue paper sections become translucent—just like real stained glass.