[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 (31–40)
Felt cosmos
Here’s an easy felt cosmos project perfect for beginners.
When crafting cosmos flowers from felt, make small jagged cuts with scissors as you go to create a three-dimensional look.
For the center of the flower, make a yellow felt piece and secure it together with a wire.
Cut felt leaves and attach them to the wire, and your cosmos is complete.
The warm, gentle feel of these cosmos flowers is so charming.
Try displaying them in a vase and enjoy!
Small peach blossom ornament
Peach blossoms bloom from March to May.
They come in single and double blooms, and in colors like white, pink, and red.
This time, let’s make a small peach blossom decoration.
All the materials can be found at a 100-yen shop, so it’s easy to make.
All you need are peach blossoms, a container, and colored sand.
When you add the colored sand to the container, be sure to pour it so it forms distinct layers.
Then just place the peach blossoms in, and you’re done.
Since there are no difficult steps, it’s also recommended as a craft activity for seniors.
Hydrangea ball
When it comes to flowers that are perfect for the rainy season, hydrangeas come to mind.
While we often picture them in purple, they also come in a variety of colors like pink and white.
Today, let’s make a hydrangea ball you can display in your room.
All the materials can be found at a 100-yen shop, so it’s easy to put together.
The process is simply embedding fabric into a round ball that serves as the base—no needles or anything sharp required, so it’s safe.
Plus, since you’ll be using your fingertips, it may help keep seniors’ brains active, too.
Gradient Cosmos
Cosmos flowers often flutter delicately and come in vivid colors.
Let’s try making a paper craft that captures the feel of cosmos flowers.
We’ll use medium-weight colored quality paper, which has more body than copy paper and is just the right thickness for folding and layering.
After cutting the paper into petal shapes, add a gradient.
Create the gradient by smudging crayon with your finger.
The key is to wrap your finger with plastic wrap when making the gradient.
This method seems enjoyable for older adults as well.
Layer the petals to form a cosmos flower.
Make some leaves and attach them to the flower to finish it off even more beautifully.
Bouquet of cosmos flowers
Many people are delighted to receive a bouquet, not just cosmos.
This time, we’re introducing a cosmos bouquet that’s fun to make and a joy to give.
Let’s fold several kinds of cosmos with origami and arrange them into a bouquet.
Choosing the colors of origami for the bouquet can be enjoyable too, don’t you think? Try making it in the favorite colors of the seniors you’re giving it to.
It’s also recommended as a bouquet gift for autumn birthdays or Respect-for-the-Aged Day.
How about adding a message card and presenting it as a gift?
[For Seniors] Add Color to Your Room: A Collection of Flower Craft Ideas (41–50)
Cosmos flowers dabbed with a sponge
This is a cosmos flower craft made by dabbing like stamping.
Cut a paper plate into the shape of a cosmos flower.
It’s easier if you first sketch the cosmos on the paper plate and then cut it out.
Place the cut paper plate on a sheet of paper, and dab a sponge with paint onto it to create cute cosmos flowers.
Try using cosmos-like colors such as pink, white, and red.
Aside from cutting the paper plate, there aren’t many complicated steps, so it’s a project that many older adults can easily participate in.
Translucent Cosmos Sheet
Let’s make a cosmos craft with beautiful translucency using tissue paper.
Stack three colors of tissue paper and cut them into cosmos petal shapes.
Sort the cut pieces by color and assemble the cosmos flowers.
Use watered-down glue to attach the tissue-paper cosmos to an OPP sheet for bouquets.
This will create a semi-transparent cosmos sheet.
You can fold or roll the sheet to make a variety of creations.
It would be fun to think together with older adults about what to make.