[For Seniors] Add Color to Your Room: A Collection of Flower Craft Ideas
Here are some flower craft ideas for older adults.
Why not try making seasonal flowers—like tulips, hydrangeas, sunflowers, and cherry blossoms—using tissue paper, construction paper, or origami paper?
In addition to crafts that create the flowers themselves, there are plenty of cute and charming ideas for wall decorations and displays, as well as projects that you’ll want to give as gifts to family and friends once they’re finished.
These are recommended not only for those who love flowers and crafting, but also for anyone looking to exercise their fingers and hands.
Handmade paper flowers never wilt, so once you make them, you can enjoy your favorite blossoms for a long time.
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[For Seniors] Add Color to Your Room: A Collection of Flower Craft Ideas (71–80)
Full-bloom cherry blossom display
This is a display created by combining pieces of paper to evoke a cherry blossom tree, which is essential to spring in Japan.
The cherry blossoms are made simply by cutting circles into flower shapes, but adding creases to give them dimension at this stage will contribute to a fuller, more voluminous final look.
Once the flowers are finished, arrange them while considering their angles, and install them as if placing them on a tree to complete the whole piece.
Making the flowers in various colors to create a gradient will enhance the three-dimensional effect, so that approach is also recommended.
An ornament of a morning glory and a watering can
Here’s a recommended idea for a summer craft to make at a day service center: “Morning Glories and a Watering Can” ornaments.
Create the morning glories using double-sided origami paper and washi (thin calligraphy paper) for a colorful yet gentle finish.
For the pot, edge a paper cup with paper cord and add paper-straw supports to give it a three-dimensional look.
The watering can uses a kitchen paper or toilet paper roll for the body, with a paper straw inserted as the spout.
Since all the materials are paper, it’s safe to make.
The finished piece is a cheerful work that also makes a delightful summer interior decoration.
A kusudama that bursts open like a flower blooming in an instant.
Let me introduce a kusudama that looks like it’s made of connected flowers.
It’s a gorgeous and cute piece, perfect for hanging as a decoration for the Peach Festival, and you can even arrange it into a kusudama bouquet.
Using a single sheet of origami, you fold both the petals and the parts that resemble stamens and pistils at the center of the flower.
Combine five of these units to complete one flower.
Even on its own, it makes an adorable origami flower.
Apply glue near the tips of the petals and connect the flowers to form the kusudama.
It really looks like a ball of blooming flowers, and I think even older adults would enjoy seeing the finished piece.
[For Seniors] Add Color to Your Room: Flower Craft Ideas (81–90)
Wreath of sunflowers and gerberas
Here’s how to make a bright, summery, and festive interior item: a sunflower and gerbera wreath.
Shape yellow origami paper into flowers and glue the petals so they are slightly offset.
Cut brown origami into thin strips, glue them, snip fine fringes, and roll them up to create the sunflower seeds.
For the gerberas, make the flowers with white origami in the same way and use yellow origami for the centers.
Making small mini gerberas adds size variation and an even cuter finish.
Attach leaves to the wreath base, then decorate it with the flowers to complete.
It turns out beautifully even with materials from a 100-yen shop, so it’s highly recommended.
Torn-paper collage of sunflowers
A popular recreation activity in senior care facilities is “chigiri-e,” a craft where you paste torn pieces of colored paper onto a coloring sheet.
Although the steps are simple—tearing paper by hand and gluing it down—it helps exercise the fingers and stimulate the brain.
By using yellow and brown origami paper to create summery sunflowers, you can capture a strong sense of the season.
It’s flexible and appealing because you can have a large group create one piece together or have each person make their own unique work.
No special tools are required, making it perfect for activities in day service programs and other senior facilities.
It’s a safe and enjoyable craft we highly recommend.
Sunflower pop-up card
Here’s an idea for a popup card that blooms into a three-dimensional sunflower when opened.
The sunflower’s yellow color gives a bright, cheerful impression and lifts the viewer’s spirits.
The mechanism that makes the flower gently rise the moment the card is opened adds a great element of surprise, making it perfect for birthdays, thank-you notes, and summer greetings.
By playing with the card’s color and the shape of the petals, and decorating with items like washi (masking) tape, you can enjoy creating your own original design.
Why not make a special, handmade card that conveys warmth?
A lifelike sunflower made with origami
Why not try making a sunflower out of origami that looks just like the real thing? All you need are yellow and brown origami paper, wire, tissue paper, and green floral tape.
First, cut the yellow origami into four equal squares and shape them into petals.
Next, cut the brown origami into thin strips and make fine slits along them.
Roll up the brown strips to create the sunflower’s center, then glue the petals onto a backing and attach the center to form the flower head.
Wrap tissue paper and green tape around the wire to make the stem, attach the flower, and you’ll have a sunflower that looks just like the real thing.
It’s full of summer charm, making it perfect as a gift or for room decor.