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[For Seniors] May Calendar Craft: Fun and Easy
May is a beautiful season of fresh green and pleasant weather.
There are also many fun events like Children’s Day and Mother’s Day! Why not make a handmade calendar to enjoy May even more? With a few simple ideas, you can easily create a lovely, seasonal calendar.
In this article, we’ll share lots of ideas that seniors can enjoy making too! Let’s try making a calendar that captures the excitement of May while keeping our hands busy.
[For Seniors] Making a May Calendar: Fun and Easy (1–10)
Brush lettering art
Let’s introduce a calendar that uses brush-lettering art, whose characters and illustrations convey warmth.
Prepare pastels, a brush pen, drawing paper, and postcards, and let’s get started.
Use the brush pen to draw seasonally themed letters and illustrations on the postcards.
If you also get creative with color to evoke May, it might make the design even more vibrant.
On half of the drawing paper, write the dates.
Leave the other half blank so there’s room to attach the postcard.
Once you stick the postcard next to the dates, it’s complete.
By incorporating a sense of the seasons, you may find a bit of comfort in everyday life.
Making a May wall calendar
When May arrives, some of you may picture a refreshing blue sky with carp streamers swimming grandly across it.
There are likely older adults who used to raise carp streamers at home, too.
Here is a calendar featuring carp streamers that will bring back memories of May.
Make carp streamers out of origami or construction paper and attach them to the calendar backing.
For the scales, use glue to stick on origami or construction paper cut into scale shapes one by one, or cut round stickers in half and apply them as scales.
Using your hands so much also helps stimulate the brain.
If you add paper kashiwa-mochi made from construction paper to the calendar as well, you’ll have a piece that feels even more like May.
Kintaro tear-off daily calendar
Here’s a Kintaro tear-off calendar that’s perfect for May.
Let’s make the parts for Kintaro and the carp streamers by cutting colored construction paper.
By creating templates and cutting the paper from them, you can adjust the overall balance of Kintaro and the carp streamers, which I recommend.
When making the eyes of the carp streamers, use a compass to draw evenly sized circles.
Gluing together each part of Kintaro and the carp streamers is also a good hands-on activity.
Finally, glue everything onto the base, add the number cards, and you’re done!
Making a calendar with a carnation stamp
Let’s try making a calendar using a carnation rubber stamp carved from an eraser.
Eraser stamps are made by carving an eraser, and you can create a calendar with a unique, handcrafted charm that’s different from store-bought stamps.
A carnation stamp that evokes Mother’s Day can help older adults feel the season.
Of course, you could also make a calendar with stamps themed around May, such as the 88th Night (Hachiju-hachiya) or carp streamers (koinobori).
Eraser stamps don’t require much force and are easy to carve, so older adults should find the project approachable.
Calendar
Here’s a handmade calendar you can create using a corkboard and plastic bottle caps.
Prepare a corkboard and protect the wooden frame around it with masking tape.
Spray it with black paint, then remove the masking tape and push pins into the board at even intervals.
Gather 31 plastic bottle caps and write the numbers 1 through 31 on them.
Use a pen to label the month and days of the week on the corkboard, then hang the bottle caps on the pins.
By swapping the caps, you can use it as a monthly calendar, and it also serves as ongoing fine motor exercise.
Give it a try!
Making a calendar with coloring pages
https://www.tiktok.com/@fukushidan1979/video/7366193843399626001Speaking of May, there are events like Children’s Day and Mother’s Day, aren’t there? Let’s make a coloring calendar that evokes the month of May.
Coloring uses fine motor skills, which is said to stimulate and activate the brain.
That’s likely why many senior care facilities incorporate coloring, isn’t it? Coloring pages featuring carp streamers (koinobori), carnations, or sports day—perfect for May—might be a great fit.
Coloring is also said to help you refresh and reset your mood.
Looking at a calendar you colored and created yourself should also give you a sense of accomplishment.
Making a hydrangea calendar
https://www.tiktok.com/@hirose_ds/video/6832023049655553281Hydrangeas bloom with beautiful colors like purple, blue, and pink.
Let’s make a hydrangea calendar using tissue paper.
Prepare a styrofoam base.
Take small squares of tissue paper and insert them into the base using cotton swabs that have been cut short.
Just stick the swab into the center of the tissue paper, and it will look like a hydrangea.
It’s a simple method, but you’ll end up with a calendar featuring three-dimensional hydrangeas.
By the way, hydrangea colors change depending on the soil condition—whether it’s acidic or alkaline.
It might be nice to share this kind of trivia while making the calendar.
Try creating it together while enjoying the time with older adults.