[For Seniors] May Calendar Craft: Motifs that color May, such as Children's Day (Tango no Sekku), Mother's Day, and seasonal flowers

Brush lettering art

[Brush lettering] I’m making a hand-drawn calendar with brush-lettering art in May, too!

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.

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Making a calendar with pressed flowers

A simple way to make a pressed flower calendar! Great as a gift, too!!

When May comes around, you often see flower beds and planters beautifully filled with colorful blooms, don’t you? Here’s a calendar that uses pressed flowers, reminiscent of a flower meadow.

Pressed pansies, gerberas, and white clover might be nice choices.

Let’s start by attaching the pressed flowers to the calendar backing.

Place the pressed flowers wherever you like on the backing.

The beauty of pressed flowers may bring a sense of calm even to older adults.

It seems you can make pressed flowers using an iron or a microwave.

Why not try making pressed flowers yourself?

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Kintaro tear-off daily calendar

Let's make a Kintaro tear-off daily calendar! #Children'sDay

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!

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Making a May wall calendar

Making a May 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.

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Origami Calendar

How to Fold an Origami Calendar [May / Clover Edition]

May is a warm and refreshing season, isn’t it? In parks and fields, you can often find plenty of clovers and white clover in bloom.

Here’s a calendar that evokes those May landscapes.

Let’s make a clover-shaped calendar using a commercially available craft kit.

By folding the printed calendar sheet, you can create a calendar in the shape of a clover.

The folding steps are mostly simple, so it should be easy for older adults to enjoy as well.

Sit in a chair and try making it while chatting with the people around you.

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Calendar of Rose Flowers

There may be day service centers and facilities where people make monthly calendars as crafts to display in their rooms or take home.

If you’re creating a calendar that incorporates items representing or symbolizing each month, how about using roses as the motif for May? Cut petals out of origami or chiyogami in various colors, shaping them like crescents.

Start by placing the smaller petals in the center and gradually attach larger petals toward the outside.

Using washi (masking) tape to create it is a nice option, too.

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Making a hydrangea calendar

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♬ Buttercup – Jack Stauber

Hydrangeas 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.

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