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

Wool Yarn Dandelion CalendarNEW!

Realistic dandelions made from yarn! Incorporating them into a calendar design highlights the three-dimensional effect, creating a piece that makes you want to touch it every time you see it.

Wrap yarn around your finger or a piece of cardboard about 20–30 times, then remove it and tie the center with a short piece of cut yarn.

Next, snip through the looped sections with scissors and trim away the excess yarn to form a hemisphere.

Once the dandelion is finished, pair it with paper-cut butterflies to recreate a spring scene.

It’s very easy to make, so be sure to use this idea in your creations.

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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 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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Making a calendar with irises

Iris?

Here is a calendar featuring irises made from origami.

Irises are beloved as an early-summer tradition, and they are said to be at their best around mid-May.

Some older adults may visit parks or temples to see them in full bloom.

While making origami irises, older adults might also recall past May memories, which could spark lively conversation.

The calendar can be made while seated, making it an activity that many older adults can comfortably take part in.

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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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