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[For Seniors] Wall Decorations to Enhance the Tanabata Atmosphere: Ideas Compilation

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For craft activities in senior care facilities, we recommend making seasonal projects that let everyone feel the changes of the four seasons.

Among these, wall decorations are especially useful: they help with fine-motor rehabilitation and can also spark deeper communication with those around them.

This time, we’re sharing wall decoration ideas for Tanabata, the major event in July.

We’ve gathered many ideas featuring classic Tanabata motifs such as Hikoboshi and Orihime, bamboo decorations, and the Milky Way.

Use this article as a guide to create lovely wall decorations together with the seniors.

[For Seniors] Wall Decorations to Enhance the Tanabata Atmosphere: Idea Collection (11–20)

Tanabata garland

Easy Tanabata Decorations: How to Make a Tanabata Garland with Origami — Crafts for Preschoolers, Elementary School Children, and Senior Activities

Tanabata garland

Let me introduce a Tanabata garland that brings a cool, refreshing feel.

Prepare design paper, glitter star decorations, tape glue, and scissors, and let’s get crafting.

Attach the design paper to the glitter star decorations to make stars.

Cut strips while leaving the edge of the origami intact, roll them, and stick them to the back of the star.

You’ll have a beautiful shooting-star-like decoration.

Cut the design paper into circles and attach them to a string with cellophane tape.

Stick on the stars and circles to complete the garland.

Do try making this lovely garland to brighten up Tanabata!

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Sendai Tanabata Festival

[Craft Idea] Tanabata Wall Decorations – Sendai Tanabata Festival (July wall display, senior recreation, day service, occupational therapy, childcare, origami, kusudama, origami DIY)

Sendai Tanabata Festival

A Tanabata-themed wall display! Here are some ideas inspired by the Sendai Tanabata Festival.

How about creating a wall display that evokes the Sendai Tanabata Festival, one of Japan’s three major Tanabata festivals? A glamorous and dynamic display is sure to lift everyone’s spirits.

You’ll need origami paper, chiyogami (patterned paper), colored construction paper, drawing paper, newspaper, tissue paper flowers, copier paper, and more.

While the overall effect is impactful, there are also many small decorations, making it a wonderful idea that everyone can collaborate on together!

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Strip with mesh

[Craft Idea] Tanzaku with Net – a strip of paper ~Tanabata~ (July) (Tanabata tanzaku) (Senior recreation) (Easy craft) (Craft activity) (Early childhood education) (Daycare/Hospital) (Psychiatric OT)

Strip with mesh

Tanabata, one of the major events in July.

In senior care facilities, don’t they often hold Tanabata events and decorate the rooms? Tanabata is also a day to tie wish strips to bamboo.

Let’s add a twist to those strips by cutting slits that create a mesh pattern.

There is originally a net-style ornament in Tanabata decorations, and as the name suggests, it’s said to carry the wish for catching lots of fish.

Fold down the top of the strip of paper, then make many cuts.

When you open it, you’ll have mesh-like slits.

If you like, you can also make Hikoboshi and Orihime and attach them to the mesh of the strip.

As they make these, some older adults may recall past Tanabata memories.

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Four types of Tanabata decorations

[Craft] Simple and cute! Four types of Tanabata decorations 🎋✨

Four types of Tanabata decorations

Tanabata, also affectionately known among young people as Summer Valentine’s Day.

No matter how old you are, it’s always delightful to write your wishes on tanzaku paper strips.

How about making a large Tanabata bamboo decoration together this year? The streamers topped with cute pom-poms are easier to make than you might think.

For the pom-pom parts, make tissue-paper flowers; for the tentacle-like streamers, accordion-fold paper and snip it with scissors.

Then just fluff everything up and assemble.

For the flying-saucer-shaped ornament, use a toilet paper roll as the core.

Using glittery colored paper will give it a more glamorous look.

It would be wonderful if everyone at the facility or day service could create a big bamboo decoration together.

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Tanabata Decorations – Double Heart

[Origami] Tanabata Decorations ♡ Double Heart Chain ♡

Tanabata Decorations - Double Heart

Let’s make a heart-shaped decoration that looks like a Tanabata casting net! Prepare several strips of origami paper cut into long, thin pieces in a few different colors.

Use each strip to form a heart shape, then link the hearts together so they connect like a net.

A stapler is handy for attaching one heart to the next.

Rather than using a single color, combining about two colors is recommended.

Linking around six hearts is enough.

Try hanging it as a wall decoration or as one of the ornaments on bamboo for Tanabata!

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Shell ornament

How to Make Tanabata Decorations: Shell Ornament! “Tanabata Wall Decorations: Part 2.” How about a slightly different-shaped shell ornament that’s easy to make using origami? [Tsukuru-mon]

Shell ornament

The shell ornament, famous as a Tanabata decoration.

Its intricate shape might make you think it’s difficult, but it’s actually very easy to make.

First, fold the origami paper in half, then in half again to make a square.

Along the folded edge, cut evenly spaced slits.

Open it, then make the same slits along the center crease, open it up, curl the pieces around, and secure them—that’s it.

The way you fasten it changes the shell’s shape, so try different variations.

Making lots in various colors and linking them together is also cute.

Three-dimensional decorations on the wall easily catch the eye.

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[For Seniors] Wall Decorations to Enhance the Tanabata Atmosphere: Idea Collection (21–30)

Swaying bamboo decorations of Orihime and Hikoboshi

[Tanabata Decorations / Hanging Ornaments] A Swaying Bamboo Decoration of Orihime and Hikoboshi 🌟 [Craft]

Swaying bamboo decorations of Orihime and Hikoboshi

“The Swaying Tanabata and Hikoboshi Bamboo Decoration” is a craft idea that lets residents enjoy the Tanabata spirit at a care facility.

Make a cooling, gently swaying mechanism by punching a hole in the bottom of a paper plate and threading a rubber band through it.

Create a starry sky on the plate by sticking on round stickers, and add star-shaped pieces made from colored construction paper.

Cut out Orihime and Hikoboshi from construction paper, color their outfits with colored cellophane, and hang them with pipe cleaners for a three-dimensional finish.

Use colored pens to freely draw faces and patterns, resulting in uniquely personal creations.

It’s a Tanabata craft filled with the joy of making and displaying.

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