[For Seniors] Add Color to Your Room: A Collection of Flower Craft Ideas

Herbarium with 100-yen shop materials

For a handmade Mother’s Day gift ♡ This all-100-yen-store herbarium was incredible ✨ How to make it ♡ Easy DIY ♡

A gift for people who love flowers! Here are herbarium ideas you can make using materials from 100-yen shops.

These ideas are perfect if you’re thinking about giving flowers as a present.

Many people feel it’s a shame that beautiful fresh flowers don’t last and eventually wilt.

This time, let’s make a herbarium gift so the recipient can enjoy lovely flowers for a long time.

A herbarium is an item made by placing preserved or dried flowers in a glass container and immersing them in oil.

It lets you enjoy flowers as interior decor, so give it a try!

Flower memo stand made with origami

[Origami] Make a Flower Memo Stand with All Materials from a 100-Yen Shop! / At-Home Time / Origami /

Let’s gather the materials at a 100-yen shop and give it a try! Here’s an idea for making an origami flower memo stand.

A memo stand is an item that holds papers or cards with notes written on them, right? It’s practical because you can display messages or things you tend to forget.

What you’ll need: origami paper, wood glue, a needle bottle, tweezers, scissors, a wooden clip, and wire.

If you make the flowers with your favorite colors of origami paper, or colors that match the recipient’s image, your feelings are sure to come across.

A simple flower made with an accordion fold

Easy Cute Paper Origami Flower: How to Make a Flower [Origami Paper Easy]

When we think of spring, we often picture lush natural landscapes, with flowers we don’t even know the names of blooming everywhere.

This piece is about creating those vibrant, colorful spring flowers using combinations of origami.

The process is to accordion-fold the paper, then fold the whole piece in half and round off the edges with a cut.

After that, open it up, connect the pieces, and shape them into a circle.

By changing the colors of the origami or varying the sizes, let’s create a colorful flower field.

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Origami bouquet

Origami bouquet 💐 Great as a gift for Labor Thanksgiving Day, too 🌼

They say “bouquet” is a French word meaning a bunch of flowers.

In Japan, the bride always does a bouquet toss at weddings, right? This time, let’s try making a bouquet that’s perfect as a gift using origami.

By simply folding and cutting your favorite colored origami paper, you can easily make flowers! There aren’t many difficult steps, so I think it’s easy for seniors to make as well.

To present it as a beautiful bouquet, let’s also make the wrapping with origami.

Choosing a cute patterned paper is where you can show your creativity! Put your ideas to full use, and you’ll have a stylish origami flower bouquet ready to go.

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Cherry Blossom Stamp

Sakura stamp play using lactic acid bacteria drink containers

This is a cherry blossom-pattern stamp that makes use of the small, easy-to-hold Yakult container—you can press it lightly and use it in various situations.

Simply attach a plastic bottle cap to the container and stick a cushion sheet cut into a cherry blossom shape onto the cap to finish.

By shaping it like petals, you can press at different angles to create a variety of cherry blossoms.

If you change the cushion sheet’s shape, you can make other designs too, so it might be fun to come up with your own original stamps.

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plum blossoms

[Origami] Easy! How to fold a plum blossom / origami ume

Plum blossoms have long been beloved by the Japanese as flowers that herald the arrival of spring.

Because they announce the start of the season, they are considered auspicious.

Their Chinese characters also carry the meaning of bringing abundance, which adds to their good fortune.

As flowers to accompany Hina dolls, which are displayed with wishes for children’s health and growth, plum blossoms are a perfect choice.

This origami plum blossom is easy to make with simple steps.

There is a step where you use scissors to shape the petals, so please handle them with care.

Make lots of them and enjoy arranging them in different ways, such as creating a garland or making a wreath by attaching them to a backing.

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pressed-flower bookmark

[Craft Idea] Pressed Flower Bookmarks Made with DAISO’s Self-Adhesive Lamination Film (Senior Recreation, Occupational Therapy OT, Day Service, Easy DIY)

A perfect gift for book lovers! Here are some ideas for making pressed-flower bookmarks.

Bookmarks are handy items you slip between the pages of a book you’re in the middle of, right? Many people probably use store-bought ones.

But how about making a one-of-a-kind pressed-flower bookmark to give as a gift this time? Press beautiful flowers that can only be seen in that season.

With self-adhesive laminate sheets and ribbon—both available at 100-yen shops—you can finish your bookmark in no time.

It’s a wonderful present, both lovely to display and practical to use.