[For Seniors] Handmade Ideas for Tsurushi-bina: Simple and Cute Hanging Decorations
Handmade tsurushi-bina crafts are perfect for seniors, offering the fun of working with your fingers and the sense of accomplishment when you finish.
Using familiar materials like origami paper, felt, and chirimen crepe fabric to create festive motifs for Hinamatsuri makes for a heartwarming time.
Display them in your room to feel the arrival of spring and spark conversation.
In this article, we introduce easy tsurushi-bina ideas for seniors! We also share ideas for hanging decorations perfect for Hinamatsuri, so give them a try.
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[For Seniors] Handmade Ideas for Tsurushi-bina. Simple and Cute Hanging Decorations (1–10)
Hina Doll Wreath
A Hina doll wreath is a great item to liven up the Doll’s Festival.
It brightens up the room and creates a lovely atmosphere.
For this Hina wreath, all you need are a wreath from the 100-yen shop, some yarn, pom-poms, and wire.
Choose fluffy yarn if you can.
Just wrap the yarn around the wreath and it’s done in no time.
You can also easily make plum blossoms, cherry blossoms, and rabbit Hina dolls by threading pom-poms onto wire.
The fluffy texture feels nice to the touch and is soothing just to look at.
Let’s try making a tiered display with tsurushi-bina (hanging hina ornaments).
Tsurushi decorations are an essential part of Hinamatsuri events held at senior facilities and day service centers.
They’re beautiful ornaments that brighten up a room just by being displayed softly.
This time, let’s make a tiered display of the Emperor and Empress dolls.
First, draw the illustrations and cut them out.
Then make the fan and hair accessories as well.
Finally, draw the faces to complete the dolls.
You can create any expressions you like, so finish it as a one-of-a-kind piece that’s uniquely yours.
Rabbit hina dolls made from pom-poms
For the Peach Festival, we recommend a cute and easy-to-make hanging decoration.
The Hina dolls are displayed to wish for children’s healthy growth.
This decoration uses pom-poms as the motif, giving it a soft and adorable look.
Displaying it in your room lets you fully enjoy the Hinamatsuri atmosphere.
This time, we’re introducing rabbit Hina dolls made from pom-poms.
All you need are pom-poms, wire, and wire cutters.
Just thread the wire through the pom-poms to complete the wreath! For the rabbit Hina dolls, attach felt and chenille stems to the pom-poms, then pass a thread through with a needle and connect them to the wreath to finish.
[For Seniors] Handmade Ideas for Hanging Hina Dolls: Simple and Cute Hanging Ornaments (11–20)
Sakura hanging ornaments
Cherry blossoms start blooming around the Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day) season, don’t they? On the tiered doll display, cherry blossoms and tachibana (bitter orange) are also arranged as a set.
They’re said to carry auspicious meaning, wishing for girls’ health.
The sakuramochi eaten during Hinamatsuri is another traditional treat that celebrates the arrival of spring.
The hanging cherry blossom decoration we’re introducing this time is easy to make—just fold and cut origami.
The blossoms look so realistic that hanging them in your room feels like viewing real cherry blossoms.
Cherry blossoms are beautiful yet fleeting, but with this decoration, you can enjoy them all year round, which is wonderful.
Hanging decorations made of felt without sewing
This is a perfect hanging decoration for Hinamatsuri that you can make just by cutting and gluing felt—no sewing required.
For the essential hishimochi, combine pink, white, and green felt cut into diamond shapes.
You can also layer about four circles of felt to create a round ornament with ruffled folds.
Try arranging finely cut pieces of felt to make flowers, too.
Once you’ve made various ornaments, attach them to strings on a support pole using a hot glue gun, and you’re done! There’s lots of detailed work, so it’s great brain training as well.
A hanging hina (ornament) with a rabbit made using tsumami-zaiku
How about making a cute hanging hina decoration with tsumami-zaiku? Using chirimen crepe fabric, you’ll create rabbits, flowers, and other ornaments to hang.
For the rabbit’s face and body, as well as round ornaments, cover small styrofoam balls with fabric to form the shapes.
Use safety eyes or beads for the rabbit’s eyes and the centers of the flowers.
For delicate work like the rabbit’s ears and flower petals, use tweezers.
Once you’ve made as many ornaments as you like, punch holes and thread a cord through them, or glue them directly onto the cord.
A springlike decoration will brighten your mood!
Origami hanging Hina decorations
Origami hanging hina decorations can make you feel the arrival of spring when you display them in your room for the Peach Festival.
Because hanging hina are considered lucky charms, they have long been beloved in Japan.
Try making them by hand as a wish for the growth of your cherished grandchildren or children.
Create each essential Peach Festival piece out of origami—such as the hina dolls, peach blossoms, hishimochi, folding fans, and dumplings.
Some steps may be intricate, but they’re perfect for fine-motor rehabilitation for older adults.
Origami has a handmade warmth, so you’ll end up with a heartwarming hanging hina.