[For Seniors] Enjoy the Hot Summer to the Fullest! A Collection of Easy Craft Ideas
Summer is the season when we start to sweat more and more.
Even indoors, you may sometimes feel the heat.
However, some older adults seem to have a harder time sensing heat.
This time, we’ll introduce some simple, recommended crafts you can do indoors during the hot season, when outdoor activities tend to decrease.
By creating summer-themed pieces, you can help people feel the season, even if it’s become harder to sense it.
After making them, you can take them home or display them at a facility, which can also give a sense of accomplishment!
Crafting involves fine motor movements of the fingertips and thinking through the steps in your head, stimulating the brain and serving as brain training.
Please enjoy making them at your own pace.
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Hang it up too! Sea creatures made of toilet paper
Toilet paper rolls are a must-have item for crafts! Try making easy ocean creatures.
Paste origami paper onto the roll, then use scissors to make slits to create squid and octopus legs or a fish’s tail.
Adding curls and creases will make them look more like sea creatures! Attach a string to turn them into hanging decorations.
Besides wall displays, you can also add clips to enjoy “fishing,” so these crafts could be great for recreational activities at day service centers.
Easy coloring! Stained-glass style of the sea
This is a stained-glass-style wall decoration with a cool, refreshing vibe.
Even if real stained glass feels daunting, you can easily make this with coloring pages, transparent cellophane, aluminum foil, and markers! It’s a great idea to copy when you want a wall display that’s a little different from the usual.
First, draw a draft on paper, place transparent cellophane over it, and trace the draft with a black marker.
Next, flip the cellophane over and color it in with markers.
Finally, crumple a sheet of aluminum foil, spread it back out, glue it down as if wrapping it with thick paper, and tape the colored cellophane on top—and you’re done! Try arranging various ocean-themed motifs like turtles, whales, and seashells.
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Summer interior frame
Summer brings various events like Tanabata, trips to the beach, and summer festivals, and many people may want to capture those moments in photos.
If you put some thought into the frames you display them in, your memories might be beautifully enhanced.
By simply adding summer-themed decorations to a photo frame you can even find at a 100-yen shop, you can easily create a summery frame.
A frame painted entirely in blue and adorned with shells or sand motifs strongly evokes the ocean, making it perfect for displaying beach photos.
In this way, choosing a frame theme to match the photo seems like a fun idea.
You could even use frames as decorations on their own, not just for holding photos.
Summer wall decoration
A summer-themed wall display lets you feel the season and brightens the mood, doesn’t it? This is a wall art project that’s easy for seniors to make, too.
How about a design with sunflowers stretching energetically up toward the blue sky? For the sunflower blossoms, tissue paper or colored paper works well.
For the stems and leaves, crumple paper into a ball, open it up, and cut it into shape after giving it a wrinkled texture—this brings out a natural, plant-like feel! Using materials like crepe sheets that already have a wrinkled texture makes it easy, so give it a try.
Adding clouds, the sun, and summer insects will make the display look even more charming!
Summer Flowers
Summer flowers like hydrangeas, sunflowers, and irises make perfect motifs for chigiri-e paper collage.
Their vivid colors—purples, blues, and yellows—stand out beautifully against white backgrounds, such as shikishi boards or postcards.
To express the softness of summer flower petals, washi paper is ideal.
The fibers that appear when you tear washi enhance a natural, organic feel.
Even if you simply tear the paper casually and paste it down, you can create an artful chigiri-e piece—so give it a try!
summer vegetables
When it comes to summer vegetables, many—like eggplant, cucumber, tomato, and corn—feature vivid primary colors, making them great subjects for torn-paper collage.
Another plus is that their shapes are so distinctive you can tell what they are at a glance.
While it’s common to use origami or washi paper, you can also tear pieces from ads or magazines to create your work.
The mood of the piece changes depending on which parts you tear, so torn-paper art really brings out the creator’s individuality—that’s part of its charm.
It’s also perfect to include with summer greetings, like seasonal postcards.
Wishes in a Jar of the Universe
Stories about the stars shining in the night sky are an essential part of Tanabata.
Here’s a fun craft inspired by that starry sky, with a bright look that evokes space and the near future.
Fill a small bottle with cotton and water, then layer in paint and glitter to decorate.
The cotton absorbs the paint, letting you create gradients inside the bottle—another enjoyable feature.
If you keep Tanabata in mind and add your wish, it should be easy to incorporate as a seasonal decoration.