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

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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.

[For Seniors] Add Color to Your Room: A Collection of Flower Craft Ideas (21–30)

Tulip bouquet

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Tulip bouquet

Tulips are an essential flower of spring, and landscapes where they bloom beautifully in a variety of colors evoke the excitement of warmer days.

This craft recreates tulip flowers using felt and bundles them together like a bouquet.

Cut felt into shapes that look like open petals, place a strip of felt—cut thin and rolled tightly—at the center, then close the petals around it to form the whole tulip.

Next, arrange the flowers on a Styrofoam ball, attach leaf pieces, and fill in any gaps.

Once everything is snugly packed, your bouquet is complete.

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a bouquet of tulips

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a bouquet of tulips

In spring, you sometimes see tulips blooming in park flowerbeds or along the roadside, don’t you? Older adults out for a stroll might also feel the arrival of spring when they see the tulips in bloom.

So let’s make tulips, the flowers that herald spring.

We’ll fold them in origami so they have a three-dimensional finish.

Using patterned or transparent origami paper gives them an even more charming look.

Attach wire for the stem and add leaves to complete the flower.

Bundle several tulips together to make a bouquet.

Having a beautiful bouquet of tulips you made yourself can give you a real sense of accomplishment.

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Sakura in tsumami-zaiku

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Sakura in tsumami-zaiku

Cute little rounded tsumami-zaiku are perfect for recreational activities for seniors because they make good use of fine motor skills.

They help train focus and creativity, making them great for dementia prevention as well.

Fold small pieces of chirimen fabric to create round petals.

Make five round petals, attach them to another piece of fabric, and arrange them into the shape of a cherry blossom.

The key is to work carefully using tweezers.

Fix small flower stamens in the center of the cherry blossom, and your tiny sakura is complete.

You can attach it to a keychain or a hair clip, or make many and turn them into a lovely sakura bouquet.

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Sakura wreath

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Sakura wreath

Starting around late March, we begin to hear more reports that cherry blossoms have started to bloom.

Some older adults may learn about the blossoms blooming through TV or newspapers.

How about enjoying spring a little early with a cute cherry blossom wreath? Using construction paper, we’ll make cherry blossoms with five petals.

By adding valley and mountain folds to the petals to create creases, the flowers will take on a three-dimensional look.

Attach stamens made from yellow construction paper to complete the cherry blossoms.

Then glue the blossoms onto a construction paper wreath base.

Besides a wreath, we also recommend sticking them on a calendar or on the wall.

How about brightening up your crafts or your room with cherry blossoms?

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Iris made with tsumami-zaiku

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Iris made with tsumami-zaiku

Let me introduce a tsumami-zaiku iris that beautifully highlights the fabric’s texture.

Cut your chosen fabric into squares and fold each piece three times with tweezers.

Apply adhesive and open it to form a petal.

Make several of these.

Next, fold smaller pieces to create the inner petals as well.

For the leaves, fold the fabric three times, then cut it into a long, narrow shape.

Slowly open it while securing the edges with glue, shaping it into a leaf.

Attach a round paper base to a wire, and then glue the parts you made onto the base in order to complete the iris.

Since this involves fine, delicate work, it’s best to proceed slowly, one step at a time.

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cherry blossom twig

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cherry blossom twig

Introducing a cherry blossom twig decoration that symbolizes spring in Japan.

Once you have pink origami paper ready, let’s make the blossoms.

Using a round dish or similar object makes it easy.

Cut out a circle, fold it in half, then fold it again so it becomes one-third the original size.

Sketch a petal shape with a pencil and cut along the line.

When you unfold it, you’ll have a cherry blossom with six petals.

Overlap one petal onto the neighboring petal to give it a three-dimensional shape.

Make a branch from brown origami paper and leaves from green origami paper, then attach them along with the blossoms to finish.

It looks adorable when added to a message card or gift box.

Give it a try!

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Paper tag of tulip

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Paper tag of tulip

Let me introduce some paper tags with lovely spring colors.

First, tie a ribbon.

Using a fork helps you make a neat bow.

Next, make the tulips.

Apply glue to a piece of wire and fix a bead in place.

Make five of these.

Then cut flower shapes out of construction paper, punch a hole in the center, and shape them nicely.

Make five of these as well.

Thread each flower onto the wire from the bottom and glue it so that it wraps around the bead.

Bundle the five together and wrap them with a strip of construction paper to hold them.

Make leaves out of construction paper and glue them to the wire, and your bouquet is ready.

Finally, attach the bouquet and the ribbon to a tag-shaped piece of paper, and you’re done.

How about adding a touch of gratitude for a Mother’s Day gift? Give it a try!

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