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

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May, with its refreshing breezes, is a time when seasonal colors—like carp streamers and fresh greenery—become especially vibrant.

Here are some motif and calendar design ideas perfect for May.

We’ve gathered activities that let you enjoy the season with your hands, such as origami, coloring, and brush-pen illustrations.

Displaying a calendar crafted by older adults themselves in their rooms can bring a little sense of accomplishment and the feeling of the changing seasons each time they look at it.

Find your favorite idea and enjoy working on it!

[For Seniors] May Calendar Craft. Motifs that color May—Children’s Day, Mother’s Day, and seasonal flowers (21–30)

Origami Calendar

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

Origami Calendar

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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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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Making a carp streamer calendar

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Koinobori (Yaneyori Takai) – Junko Nakagawa

Some households probably still display carp streamers (koinobori) for Children’s Day and the Boys’ Festival.

These days, fewer families raise koinobori, though.

Still, some older adults may remember putting them up at home.

Here’s a koinobori calendar that might bring back those memories.

We’ll make carp streamers out of origami rolled into a tube.

For the scales, use flower-shaped punch-outs made from origami paper.

You can make adorable koinobori.

Using red or blue origami is classic, but creating them with your favorite patterns will make for a fun project.

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Hanko Calendar

2021 Calendar #2: A Calendar Made with Stamps (April, May, June Edition) OKAPI CRAFT HOBBY

Let me introduce a stamp calendar that brings a sense of everyday life.

First, prepare a base calendar where the dates are clearly visible at a glance.

For the stamps, I recommend seasonal illustration stamps.

If you also have bright stamp ink colors, you might be able to create a more vibrant calendar.

Make sure to leave enough space on the calendar so there’s room to place your stamps.

It’s also a great idea to add stickers or tear pieces of washi origami paper and paste them on.

Once it’s finished, decorate your room with it and enjoy!

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