[For Seniors] Making a July Calendar: A Collection of Summer-Themed Motif Ideas
July is full of seasonal motifs like Tanabata, summer festivals, the sea, and sunflowers! Why not enjoy the July atmosphere by making a handmade calendar? By decorating it with your favorite colors and materials, you can create a piece full of originality.
Moving your hands also helps stimulate the brain, and displaying the finished calendar is sure to make every day more fun! This time, we’re sharing ideas that are easy even for seniors to try.
Let’s welcome July in a bright and cheerful way while enjoying the warmth of something handmade!
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[For Seniors] Making a July Calendar: A Collection of Summer-Themed Motif Ideas (11–20)
soft serve ice cream
Perfect for summer, let’s fold a soft-serve ice cream with origami.
After folding the paper in half, fold the bottom right and bottom left corners inward to meet at the center.
Next, fold the bottom point up to align with the top point, then fold so that the center crease lines up with the right crease.
While looking at the center crease, shape the ice cream by forming creases that create the ice shape.
When shaping the ice cream, it works well to fold it as if making a spiral.
Finally, draw a pattern on the cone with a felt-tip pen to finish.
Morning Glory Hanging-Scroll-Style Calendar
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Let me introduce a hanging scroll-style calendar featuring morning glories.
The calendars you make are usually displayed on a wall or on a table, right? Some older adults might find themselves thinking, while looking at their own calendars, “My calendars always end up in the same style.” A hanging scroll-style calendar, which is a bit different from the usual, might feel fresh even to seniors who have grown tired of making calendars.
After making the calendar, mount it on a backing sheet, and attach tubes at the top and bottom of the backing so that a cord can pass through them.
Thread a cord only through the top tube, and it’s complete.
It seems likely that older adults will enjoy this calendar’s different look and feel.
Summer Juice
On a hot day, gulping down juice lets you enjoy a deliciousness that feels different from usual.
Let’s use that juice as our theme and make a July calendar.
Prepare construction paper or origami in juice colors like orange and grape.
Cut them into the shape of glasses and color them with crayons as you like.
Make ice shapes out of plastic bags and create fruit with construction paper, then paste them inside the paper glasses.
Add straws, or place ice cream made from tissue paper on top of the glass.
Attach the finished juice glass to the calendar, and it’s complete.
The three-dimensional feel of the piece is sure to satisfy older adults as well.
Making a calendar with pressed flowers
Here’s a calendar featuring pressed flowers of July and summer, such as morning glories and hydrangeas.
Start by temporarily fixing the pressed flowers onto the calendar backing with glue.
The process of planning the design and arranging the flowers is something older adults can enjoy with excitement.
After that, apply a laminating film and run it through a laminator, or use self-adhesive laminating sheets to finish.
Self-adhesive laminating sheets are available at 100-yen shops, and they make it easy to create, so they’re recommended.
Making a seasonal flower calendar is a great way for older adults to craft while feeling the changing seasons.
Tanabata-style calendar
This time, we’ll introduce a July calendar craft centered on Tanabata, the July festival.
Many of you may be thinking, “I want to make a handmade calendar.” There are various calendar-making kits available for purchase.
A kit featuring bamboo branches decorated for Tanabata is especially handy.
If you use a craft knife to cut out the bamboo leaves on the double-layered calendar base, you’ll get a three-dimensional finish.
And of course, be sure to add tanzaku—wish strips imbued with the feelings of the seniors—onto the bamboo.
Including tanzaku will help you create a calendar with a unique, personal touch.
A calendar decorated with origami
Let’s make a calendar using summer-themed origami.
When it comes to summer origami, perhaps watermelon, morning glories, and goldfish come to mind.
A calendar decorated with pieces you’ve folded yourself can give older adults a real sense of accomplishment.
Have them make about two types of origami pieces, then arrange and attach them to the calendar with a thoughtful layout.
Folding with their fingertips and planning the composition for attaching the pieces can also help stimulate the brain.
The activity can be done while seated, and older adults are likely to enjoy lively conversations with those around them, sharing summer stories as they create.
[For Seniors] Making July Calendars: A Collection of Summer-Themed Motif Ideas (21–30)
Tanabata-style calendar with a brush pen
How about creating a special feel by drawing Tanabata on your calendar? Using a brush pen, draw Orihime and Hikoboshi in the calendar space.
It’s easier to tell them apart if you change their hairstyles and the colors you use.
Draw a starry sky between them to represent the Milky Way that separates the two.
In reality, it might rain or be too cloudy to see, but it’s nice to draw a starry sky with the wish that they can meet on the day.
With this little playful touch, checking the daily calendar might become something to look forward to.
Give it a try!
