[For Seniors] Fun Halloween wall decorations: from ghosts and pumpkins to spiders and castles
Let us introduce autumn wall decorations that let you enjoy the changing seasons.
Especially around Halloween, you’ll want to create a fun atmosphere in facilities like day services.
Using familiar materials such as origami paper, felt, and construction paper, there are many easy projects like jack-o’-lanterns and bats that even older adults can enjoy making.
Carefully crafting each piece not only provides a good chance to use fine motor skills, but also allows everyone to chat and work together.
How about making some lovely wall decorations together—perfect for creating autumn memories?
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[For Seniors] Fun Halloween wall decorations: from ghosts and pumpkins to spiders and castles (21–30)
pumpkin garland
Let’s decorate for Halloween with a pumpkin garland! An easy method is to thread string through pumpkins cut out of construction paper or folded from origami.
If you make three-dimensional pumpkins, it will instantly look more festive.
Another option is to combine paper rings in large, medium, and small sizes to form pumpkin shapes.
Add eyes and a mouth to your pumpkins to turn them into Halloween jack-o’-lanterns—try whatever you like!
Spider
How about making a spider out of a single sheet of origami for a Halloween wall decoration? All you need is a 15 cm × 15 cm sheet of origami paper, a pen, and scissors, and it’s easy to make! Origami is perfect for recreational activities at senior facilities too, so be sure to use this video as a reference.
The spider’s legs might be a little tricky, but give it a try! Drawing your favorite face with eyes and a mouth, or making a spider web to display together, will make the wall even more festive.
[For Seniors] Fun Halloween wall decorations: from ghosts and pumpkins to spiders and castles (31–40)
Halloween Garland
Here’s how to make a Halloween garland using paper cutouts.
Prepare origami paper in your favorite colors, divide each sheet into three strips 5 cm wide, then glue the strips together end to end to make a long piece.
Accordion-fold it, then draw Halloween-themed designs like pumpkins, ghosts, and bats.
Cut along the outlines with scissors and unfold to reveal a cute garland! Since the steps are just gluing, drawing, and cutting, even older adults can complete it in a short time.
For shapes that are hard to cut with scissors, like circles, using a hole punch is convenient.
Halloween Castle
If you’re looking for ideas for Halloween wall decorations, how about a “Halloween Castle” that creates an elegant atmosphere? You can make it with just black and yellow construction paper, so it’s easy to try! Since you build it up by adding cut pieces of paper, the charm is that you can use small scraps and offcuts too.
It takes a little time, but it’s surprisingly simple—you just keep pasting the paper while keeping a sense of upward expansion.
It’s exciting to improvise and end up with a castle you like! It’s great not only for walls but also for decorating windows at home or in senior care facilities.
Halloween wall decoration
Here’s a craft idea that’s perfect for Halloween party wall decorations and can be made with construction paper.
It’s a simple project that adapts the classic party decoration, the paper fan, so anyone can try it easily.
Connect two sheets of accordion-folded construction paper, bundle them, and tie the center with string.
Next, open it into a circle and attach the sides together with clips or double-sided tape.
Finish by adding jack-o’-lantern or ghost faces, and you’re done! Using Halloween colors will enhance the festive vibe.
It could also be fun to make them in a variety of sizes, both large and small!
Halloween decorations paper flowers
In October, there’s Halloween, an event that has taken root in Japan in recent years.
How about making paper flowers using origami to celebrate? All you need to do is accordion-fold the paper, round off the ends with scissors, stack the pieces, and glue them together—so it’s easy for seniors to try as well.
You can use any color of origami, but if you want Halloween colors, try orange, purple, and black.
Besides origami, you can also make paper flowers with tissue paper or construction paper, so feel free to choose the texture you like.
Origami: Jack-o’-lantern
When it comes to Halloween motifs, you can’t go wrong with a jack-o’-lantern! How about making pumpkin ghosts out of origami to brighten up your care facility? This tutorial video is easy enough for beginners, so making them together as a recreation activity at day service can be effective for seniors’ fine motor training too.
If you change the color of the origami and let everyone draw their own pumpkin ghost faces, you’ll end up with lots of unique and expressive ghosts.
Stick them on the wall and enjoy a fun Halloween! Please use this as a reference.