[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 Ornaments (31–40)
Hanging cherry blossom decorations made with tissue paper
Let’s make a spring-like hanging decoration of cherry blossoms using tissue paper! Fold the tissue paper in an accordion, cut it into petal shapes, and simply unfold it to create cherry blossoms.
You can also make shapes that look like a single petal, and by wrapping green tissue paper on the opposite side of the petal’s slit, you can create bud-like shapes.
Make plenty of these using dark pink and light pink tissue paper and combine them.
Cut brown construction paper into long, thin strips to resemble cherry branches, and attach the blossoms and buds to them to finish.
Make lots and bring the feeling of spring into your room!
Hanging butterfly ornament
This is a hanging decoration that soothes the heart with the image of a beautiful butterfly with its wings spread.
Why not make decorations themed around creatures that evoke the coming of spring for Girls’ Day? After cutting origami with a butterfly silhouette, use it as a template to cut design paper.
Once you glue the papers together, connect them to a string and add items made with a craft punch, and so on.
Finally, open the design paper attached to the butterfly origami, and your hanging ornament is complete.
It’s a butterfly decoration that will add a bright, festive touch to the atmosphere of a senior care facility.
Let’s hang and display a Hina doll wreath
This is a Hina doll wreath that adds a touch of splendor to Hinamatsuri celebrations at senior care facilities and similar venues.
Let’s create a hanging decoration that sets the tone for a special day by displaying it on a wall or door.
Make the wreath by connecting origami sheets cut in half so that the patterns alternate.
After crafting the Emperor and Empress dolls using patterned origami, such as floral designs, decorate them with parts like hats and fans.
Create a fan at the bottom of the wreath by creasing origami, then attach the Hina dolls and peach blossom pieces to finish.
It’s a hanging decoration that evokes an authentic Japanese atmosphere.
Hinamatsuri mobile
A Hina Matsuri mobile where you can display items with a traditional Japanese feel, such as cherry blossoms and fans.
Let’s make hanging decorations together with seniors using construction paper and yarn—great for practicing fine motor skills.
Connect round pieces cut from colored paper and cherry blossom parts to create three-dimensional items.
You can also accordion-fold paper and fasten it to make fans.
Attach the pieces you made to pipe cleaners, and you’ll have an adorable mobile that gently sways.
It’s also recommended to make seasonal decorations like imperial dolls or peaches.
Hina dolls placed on a table, gently swaying
Here’s an easy Hinamatsuri hanging decoration idea that seniors can enjoy: Hang pipe cleaners from a paper cup.
Draw illustrations on the cup with pens or stickers, then make a hole in the center of the bottom.
Twist three pipe cleaners together from about 2 cm down to the halfway point, and thread them through the hole in the cup.
Secure the pipe cleaners inside the cup, then wrap the ends around a pen to form the base.
Attach paper decorations made from construction paper with tape, and decorate with gradient foam balls.
You’ll have a gently swaying hanging hina ornament.
[For Seniors] Handmade Ideas for Tsurushi-bina. Simple and Cute Hanging Ornaments (41–50)
Hanging Hina Dolls made with flour clay
Here are some ideas for hanging decorations made with salt dough! You can buy salt dough at 100-yen shops, or make it by mixing cake flour, salt, vegetable oil, and water.
If you want to add color, knead in your favorite paint.
Roll the dough into balls and poke a hole through the center with a bamboo skewer.
Once dry, decorate by threading a string through, adding lace, or wrapping ribbon, then string them up to hang—and you’re done! Try making Hina dolls to display together, too.
Hanging decoration of peach blossoms
Here’s an idea for a hanging decoration that showcases the beautiful shades of peach blossoms.
Why not make a Hinamatsuri item to brighten up the walls and doors of a senior care facility? Fold pink origami or tissue paper, then make small cuts with scissors to create petal shapes.
Once you’ve made all the parts in the same size, attach them to the string for the hanging decoration.
Finally, add floral patterns with round stickers, and your peach blossom hanging ornament is complete.
It’s also recommended to use floral-patterned paper or display cherry blossoms together.