[For Seniors] Easy Koinobori Crafting: A Collection of Fun Ideas Using Various Materials

Koinobori decoration

[Children’s Day] Let’s make a carp streamer decoration. 🎏

Here’s an idea for a carp streamer decoration in the style of a hanging scroll.

You can use origami carp and finish it in a way that suits the celebration of Children’s Day.

Fold the carp out of origami paper—Japanese patterns or other designs are recommended.

Attach crepe paper and washi to create a hanging scroll backing, then stick the origami carp onto it.

Making and attaching a windsock (fukinagashi) alongside the carp will look lovely as well.

Displayed on the wall like a hanging scroll, it can help evoke the feeling of May even for older adults.

Alternatively, insert a stick into a paper cup weighted with clay and attach the hanging scroll to the stick.

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Nakajima Junko

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Hanging decorations for Children’s Day

[Felt] How to Make a Children’s Day Hanging Decoration (No Sewing) — Just Cut and Glue! Perfect with Koinobori 🎏✨

Speaking of May, it’s Children’s Day.

Let’s make a hanging decoration to boost the festive mood! This idea uses felt, but since you assemble it by gluing instead of sewing, it’s easy for seniors to try as well.

First, make a template—thick paper or cardstock works fine.

Trace the template onto the felt and cut it out.

Carefully finish each piece by gluing it together.

Try making lots of Children’s Day–themed motifs like carp streamers (koinobori), oak leaf rice cakes (kashiwa mochi), samurai helmets (kabuto), and festival banners.

They’re so cute that your grandchildren would love receiving them as a gift!

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Koinobori and wisteria flowers

May decorations: carp streamers and wisteria 🎏

Wisteria flowers reach their best viewing time from the end of April.

You may have opportunities to go see them with older adults.

Some seniors might look forward to the purple wisteria trellises every year.

Here, we introduce wisteria—the flower that represents May—and carp streamers (koinobori) decorations.

We’ll make wisteria and koinobori out of origami.

There are some steps with fine folds, so seniors who enjoy origami are likely to have fun with this craft.

Once the wisteria and koinobori are finished, attach them to a paper plate.

If you paste a sheet with a sky pattern in the center of the plate, it will look like the koinobori are swimming in the sky.

Cutting out the center of the paper plate to make it into a wreath shape is also lovely.

Koinobori hanging decoration

[Easy] 🎏 How to Make Koinobori (Carp Streamers) 🎏 Just cut and paste ✨ [100-yen shop origami] How to make carp-shaped streamers

Koinobori look magnificent as they swim grandly through the sky and are a seasonal symbol of spring and early summer.

Let’s make a hanging decoration so you can enjoy koinobori indoors, too.

Use washi-patterned origami or regular origami to create the body of the koinobori and add the eyes.

Then thread the koinobori onto a string, make the fins and tail, and you’re done.

If you make several koinobori and hang them on the same string, it’s like seeing the magoi (black carp), higoi (red carp), and more together.

Watching the gently swaying indoor koinobori hanging decoration, some older adults may feel the arrival of May.

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Nakajima Junko

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Wobbly paper-plate carp streamer

Wobbly Paper Plate Koinobori (Carp Streamers) – #easycraft #easydiy #recreation #seniorrecreation #facilityrecreation #easykidscraft #koinobori

Would you like to make a gently swaying carp streamer using a paper plate? First, fold a paper plate in half.

Staple only one side; the stapled side will be the tail.

Trim the head end slightly.

Cut a colorful sheet of paper a little smaller than the body, and glue it onto the body.

Then cut another sheet slightly longer than the tail portion of the plate and glue it on, offsetting it.

Add an eye using an eye part or a round sticker, and it’s done.

When you display it, it will sway in the breeze and look very charming.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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