Recommended Moon-Viewing Crafts for Seniors

Papercut Art: Moon-Viewing Rabbit

[Kirie] How to Make Moon-Viewing Rabbits 🌙 Adorable bunnies pounding mochi on the harvest moon 🐇 Easy to make with just scissors ♪ [With voice instructions] / Let’s start paper-cutting!

Here’s a paper-cutting idea of a moon with the silhouette of a rabbit pounding mochi.

It seems useful for wall decorations, autumn crafts, and many other settings.

The method is simple: fold a sheet of yellow origami paper in half, draw the rabbit and the moon with lines, and cut them out with scissors.

If you have trouble drawing a perfect circle for the moon, fold the paper twice and draw one quarter at a time.

Also, since freehand drawing the rabbit can be tricky, it may help to draw guide lines beforehand; for older adults, it might be better to have them trace over those lines with a pen.

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Torn-paper collage: Moon-viewing rabbit

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Otsukimi (moon-viewing) is one of Japan’s long-standing traditions.

So, let’s make a moon-viewing scene with a rabbit for the September calendar using torn-paper collage.

Because you use your fingertips to tear and paste the paper onto a backing sheet, this kind of collage can also serve as brain training.

The September moon-viewing is known as Jūgoya or the Harvest Moon and is held on the full moon around September 15.

It became cherished as an autumn harvest festival, and because people offered taro as a prayer for a good harvest, it came to be called Imomeigetsu (“Taro Moon”).

Many older adults may also be very familiar with September’s moon-viewing.

Try making it while chatting about Otsukimi.

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Moon and Cosmos

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For the September calendar, let’s use the moon and cosmos flowers as our theme.

The full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival and cosmos, one of the representative flowers of autumn—cut these two motifs out of origami or construction paper, or fold them with origami, and paste them onto the calendar base.

A calendar featuring graceful cosmos blooming under the harvest moon will help seniors feel the season as well.

It’s said that from September to October is the time when the moon looks most beautiful.

During this period, it rains regularly, washing dust out of the air, so the moon can be seen in clear, crisp skies.

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Moon-Viewing Skewered Dumplings

[Autumn Origami] Make four from one sheet! How to make Otsukimi skewered dumplings [Origami]

Let’s make skewered dumplings for the Moon Viewing festival (Otsukimi) out of origami and add them to a September calendar.

If you divide one sheet of origami paper into four equal parts, you can make four skewers.

First, crease the cut piece of origami paper, then proceed with the folds.

Because these are made with smaller pieces of paper, you’ll use fine motor skills as you fold.

This can also be expected to help stimulate the brain.

Four delicious-looking origami skewered dumplings—some older adults may be reminded of past Moon Viewing celebrations.

This piece can be used not only for calendars, but also for wreaths and wall decorations.

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Moon-viewing dumplings

[Cute Origami] How to Fold Tsukimi Dango (Origami no Jikan)

During the moon-viewing season in September, some households knead dango flour and offer rice dumplings.

Since ready-made ones are widely available these days, perhaps making them at home has become less common.

Older adults may also have made dumplings and celebrated the Harvest Moon with their families.

Let’s try making rice dumplings out of origami that you can display on a September calendar.

We’ll fold the dumplings, a sheet of hanshi (thin paper), and a sanpō (offering stand).

By placing the dumplings on the sanpō, the piece will look even more realistic.

Through creating this craft, older adults might share stories about moon-viewing festivals they spent with their families.

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raccoon dog

[One Sheet of Origami] Easy and Cute Mini Raccoon Dog (Tanuki) Folding Method (Step-by-Step Guide)

The moon and tanuki are said to be closely connected.

It’s believed that tanuki gather on moonlit nights, drumming on their bellies like taiko and dancing.

On the night of the harvest moon, when offerings like rice dumplings and taro are placed out, you might even hear their lively dance.

Try incorporating tanuki into your September calendar craft—fold a tanuki with origami and paste it onto the calendar as decoration.

As you work, some older adults may be reminded of the children’s song “Shōjōji no Tanukibayashi.”

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Rabbit making mochi

[Moon-Viewing Origami] How to Fold Rabbits Pounding Mochi 2 (Origami no Jikan)

As in the children’s song “Usagi,” which celebrates the night of the mid-autumn full moon in September, moon viewing is often associated with rabbits.

Indeed, the patterns on the full moon’s surface look like a rabbit pounding rice cakes.

Let’s try making a September calendar featuring an origami design of a rabbit pounding mochi.

Even older adults are likely to smile as they create these cute rabbit origami pieces.

You might also enjoy lively conversations about moon viewing while you work.

It’s also recommended to craft the full moon, pampas grass, and more with origami and paste them onto the calendar.

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