Craft ideas with a maple-leaf theme. Fun craft activities for seniors.

Maple leaf photo frame

[Handmade Video] Hands Hint Club at Home: “Let’s Make a Photo Frame from Cardboard” [Official Hands]

Maple leaves have often been the subject of waka poetry since ancient times.

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro’s poem, “Akiyama no momiji o shigemi madoinuru imo o motome mu yamaji shirazumo,” is well known.

It’s quite charming to go on a momijigari (autumn leaf viewing) with everyone from the day service while thinking of such poems.

How about decorating a photo frame with the maple leaves you gather? It will make a lovely autumn memory, and photos taken in the fall will surely shine.

The photo frame can be handmade or store-bought—either is fine.

Arrange various shades of orange paper and maple leaves beautifully on the frame you’ve prepared.

Paper cutouts of maple leaves

[Autumn Origami] Easy Maple Leaf Cutting: How to Make Fall Leaves [Kirigami]

If you want to enjoy an easy touch of autumn in a day-service craft activity, how about making maple leaves by cutting origami paper? It’s a simple process—stack and fold the paper, then cut with scissors—so it should be easy for older adults to take part.

Once everyone gets used to each step, you can work together to make lots in various colors and decorate the walls beautifully! You can also arrange them as stylish memo paper, cards, or wreath decorations, so please enjoy them in whatever way you like.

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Colorful maple leaves made by cutting and folding origami

Maple leaf craft

Autumn can make being alone feel subtly lonely.

I imagine many seniors look forward to their day-service days.

In that case, if you’ve got a lot of people together, I recommend “colorful maple leaves made by cutting and folding origami.” The basic process is to make lots of small diamond shapes from origami paper and then glue seven of them together to form a single maple leaf.

The more people you have, the faster the work goes! Even the relatively simple task of making diamonds can become a fun time when everyone does it together.

You’ll definitely want to display the finished maple leaf art in classrooms or hallways.

Origami maple leaf

When we think of autumn, we think of colorful foliage—and when we think of foliage, we think of autumn.

It refers to the way tree leaves turn scarlet as temperatures drop, but the term is also used as a general name for maples that turn a vivid red.

Let’s try making these autumn leaves with origami.

If everyone gathers and makes a lot of them, you’ll end up with a magnificent autumn landscape artwork.

Make use of not only origami websites but also video platforms for instructions.

Mixing in pieces like the “long-life turtle” and “ginkgo” will make it livelier, so be sure to arrange those nicely as well.

Maple leaf wall hanging

Origami maple and moonlit night wall hanging decoration

Speaking of autumn, maple leaves are beautiful and are a symbol of the season.

How about making a wall decoration that evokes an autumn night with the moon and maple leaves? Paste chiyogami or origami paper onto thick cardstock, then add a circle of origami paper to represent the moon.

Fold a rabbit and paste it onto the moon, and decorate the surroundings with lots of maple leaves.

If you fold the maple leaves in various colors, it will look colorful and lovely.

You can get everything at a 100-yen shop, so why not give it a try?

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Maple leaf wall decoration

[Elderly Recreation] Maple Leaf Wall Decoration [Autumn Craft]

These maple-leaf wall decorations are perfect for large group craft sessions at day service centers.

All you need is origami paper, so it’s low-cost and low-effort—that’s the key point! You can make the leaves by folding the origami paper, cutting along a traced outline, and then unfolding it.

The result is a slightly three-dimensional, realistic autumn leaf.

Using gradient origami paper or pre-crumpling the paper before cutting are great ways to add variety.

They look lovely displayed against a background like washi or colored paper, or you can make lots of pieces and turn it into a large wall installation that brightens up the space!

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Autumn Foliage Wreath

For autumn decorations! Origami maple leaf wreath ☆ Autumn origami maple wreath

There probably isn’t a single person, man or woman, who grew up without doing origami.

You’ve surely folded more ninja stars and flapping boats than you can count.

Some skillful people can even make a monkey or an elephant from a single sheet of paper.

So how about making an autumn-themed maple leaf wreath out of origami? Once you master the basic maple leaf fold, all that’s left is to connect them.

It would likely be appreciated as a small prize or an award medal at gatherings for seniors.

Exchanging wreaths you’ve made yourselves at birthday parties and the like would also be a nice idea.