[For Seniors] Enjoy Koinobori Indoors: Wall Decoration Ideas Collection

Stained glass-style koinobori

A stained-glass-style carp streamer made with clear files 🎏 It looks beautiful when you hold it up to the sky! 🙌 #nurseryteacher #earlychildhoodstudent #nursery #nurserycrafts #athomeplay #crafts #koinobori

Stained glass is used in churches and public facilities, too.

The sunlight filtering through stained glass creates a lovely atmosphere indoors, doesn’t it? Let’s make a carp streamer that captures that stained-glass look.

Draw lines on a clear file folder with a black permanent marker, then color it in with various permanent markers.

After coloring, roll it up, secure it with clear tape, and form the tail fin.

Punch a hole near the head, thread a stick through, and it’s done.

You can also decorate the top of the stick with a paper samurai helmet or a streamer.

This stained-glass-style carp streamer—something you don’t see very often—seems like an activity older adults would enjoy as well.

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Koinobori everyone can freely draw together

[Koinobori] “Recommendation for Drawing Koinobori” — Craft, Painting, Wall Decorations, Preschool Crafts, Elderly Care Recreation #Koinobori

Instead of cutting thick paper or doing origami, how about freely drawing carp streamers? Using a brush helps exercise your fingertips and can even serve as brain training.

Feel free to choose any method or style you like! Brushes make it easy to vary pressure, so take advantage of that to draw scales and fins.

If you have plenty of space to work, preparing a large sheet of paper might be a good idea.

As you draw, you might find the ideas keep coming—“Let’s make it look like more are swimming,” or “Let’s focus on the background,” and so on!

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Koinobori made with tsumami-zaiku

[Tsumami Zaiku] Let’s make carp streamers to display in a frame! Children’s Day – Tango no Sekku

Koinobori carp streamers swimming majestically across the fresh May skies.

In some areas lately, chances to see koinobori have been decreasing.

For many older adults, Children’s Day and the Boys’ Festival may bring to mind these carp streamers.

So let’s make a koinobori frame decoration that looks as if it’s really swimming.

If you use the tsumami-zaiku technique for the koinobori’s body, it will give a scaly look.

Tsumami-zaiku is one of Japan’s traditional crafts.

The maru-tsumami, made by folding small pieces of fabric into triangles, seems perfect for the scales.

Craftwork that uses your fingers can also be expected to stimulate the brain.

If you also make iris flowers with tsumami-zaiku and arrange them in the frame, it will turn out even more lovely.

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Carp streamers made with felt and chirimen (crepe fabric)

[Cut and Paste Only] Easy! How to Make a Hanging Koinobori Decoration with Felt and Chirimen 🎏

Here’s an introduction to making carp streamers (koinobori) using felt and chirimen crepe fabric.

Cut the felt into the shape of a koinobori.

Cover it with a piece of chirimen fabric that’s larger than the felt and attach it with a hot glue gun.

Trim off the excess, then glue on another layer of felt to reinforce it.

Attach metallic yarn along the edge of the koinobori, and add the eyes and scales.

Cut it into the shape of a banner, attach a cord, and it’s done.

Koinobori made with colorful felt and patterned chirimen fabric look lovely.

Displaying them indoors might even prompt older adults to share stories related to koinobori.

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Carp streamers and wisteria flowers

May decorations: carp streamers and wisteria 🎏

When you think of small purple blossoms that bloom in May, wisteria comes to mind.

Let’s make a decoration that combines carp streamers (koinobori) with wisteria! Cut purple origami paper into small pieces, fold them, and turn them into wisteria flowers.

Make several—since you’ll arrange and glue them onto a backing at the end, the more you have, the more luxurious it will look! For the koinobori, use a simple folding method that takes advantage of the white underside of the origami.

Draw in the eye and the lines on the tail fin to finish them.

Then place the carp streamers and wisteria flowers however you like on a backing made from a paper plate or similar.

Attach a string so it can hang on the wall, and you’re done!

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Koinobori and Kintaro

Crafting with toilet paper rolls and origami: Easy! Carp streamers (Koinobori) and Kintaro. How to make stylish and cute Koinobori! Perfect for Children's Day decorations. May 5 is Tango no Sekku (Boys’ Festival). First festival celebration. Reuse. Recycle. Wall decorations.

These are adorable wall decorations of carp streamers and Kintaro with a plump, rounded look! They’re three-dimensional because they use toilet paper tubes.

You flatten a tube and then let go; using the shape as it springs back slightly, you take advantage of that gentle curve.

Kintaro is expressed with colored origami paper cut to show his bobbed hair and red apron.

The carp streamers are made by stacking and gluing cut sections of toilet paper tubes one after another to create that long, horizontal body.

Since they’re compact when finished, you can display them just about anywhere.

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Dynamic Koinobori

[Wall Decoration] May Dynamic Carp Streamers [Activities for the Elderly] Carp streamer

If you want to add a splash of color to a plain wall, why not create a dynamic koinobori carp streamer? It looks fantastic on the walls of senior facilities, making it a great craft activity for day service recreation.

The basic tasks are cutting paper and gluing, so it should be easy for older adults to take part.

The scales of the koinobori are made by cutting and pasting a mix of traditional Japanese chiyogami patterns and solid-colored paper.

Each scale is fairly large, which makes them very easy to handle.

Since the koinobori body is big, staff can handcraft it together, and have participants make the scales—perfect teamwork! Because it’s a large, handmade piece created by everyone, it’s sure to draw delighted reactions when displayed on the wall.

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