[For Seniors] Perfect for winter events! Easy craft ideas

Felt poinsettiaNEW!

[Super Easy] Make a Poinsettia with Felt [Endless Arrangements]

This is a simple craft to brighten up your Christmas or winter decor.

You can display it in the entryway or on a table, or arrange it as a wreath or small ornament.

First, staple the template and cut the felt.

After folding it in half, press a crease with your fingernail.

Make a slit in the center, apply glue, then fold along the crease and pinch at the center with your fingers to shape it.

Prepare three cotton swabs cut in half, and wrap them with floral tape.

Insert the cotton swabs into the poinsettia, adjust the shape, and secure the back center with glue to finish.

Although it involves some handwork, it’s safe and easy, so older adults can enjoy it too, and it lets you create a warm, seasonal atmosphere by hand.

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Shimenawa wreath decoration

All Paper! How to Make a New Year’s Shimenawa Wreath Decoration

How about making a handmade shimenawa wreath, an essential New Year’s decoration? By crafting it yourself, you get a charm you won’t find in ready-made items, and it’s perfect for finger dexterity training for seniors.

For the shimenawa part, you can unravel paper cord available at 100-yen shops and braid it yourself.

You can also have fun decorating it however you like with fans made from chiyogami paper, camellia flowers made from colored paper, and mizuhiki cords.

Using a store-bought wreath base makes it even easier to finish.

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Sparkling snowflakes at the mallNEW!

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This is a fun and easy craft for making snowflakes using sparkly pipe cleaners.

The steps are simple and approachable, letting you enjoy creating a seasonal piece while working with your fingertips.

Divide two pipe cleaners into three equal parts and fold two pieces together.

Cut at the folded peaks.

Take the three one-third pieces and fold each in half.

Twist them together twice at the center.

Spread them out and shape them into the base.

Wrap the remaining six pieces around in a snowflake pattern.

Finally, wrap one more pipe cleaner around once, tie on a string for hanging, and it’s complete.

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A small New Year’s pine decoration at the mallNEW!

Tinsel Mini Kadomatsu Tutorial ✨ A thorough guide up to the red-and-white plum blossoms! Once you’ve learned it, feel free to mix, match, and create your own.

Pipe cleaners are also great for New Year’s decorations.

Let’s make pine, bamboo, and plum—auspicious plants for the New Year—and add them to a kadomatsu.

You create them by wrapping and curling the pipe cleaners.

While making these lucky New Year items, older adults can enjoy themselves and get plenty of fine-motor movement, too.

As you work, you might recall past New Year’s and year-end memories with family and have lively conversations.

A kadomatsu made with fluffy pipe cleaners gives off a cozy, heartwarming feel.

It could make a lovely interior decoration as well.

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Nakajima Junko

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Christmas wreath at the mall

[Easy] Sparkly Tinsel ✨ How to Make a Christmas Wreath 🎅 [All from the 100-yen shop 🌲] Just twist! DIY How to Make a Christmas Wreath.

We’d like to introduce an easy-to-make Christmas wreath using only twist ties from a 100-yen shop.

This craft makes full use of your fingers, so it’s also effective for fine-motor rehabilitation for seniors! How about incorporating this craft into your Christmas event preparations? To make it, overlap the ends of two twist ties and twist them together, then clamp a pen, straw, or battery between the ties and twist two or three times.

Repeat this process, and once you’ve wrapped to the end, form a circle and twist the ends together to connect—done! You can make it look even more festive by adding bow-shaped ties or decorative stickers.

Try making it with your favorite colors and get into the Christmas spirit.

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reindeer

Reindeer made with a Yakult bottle

You can make reindeer and Santa decorations using Yakult containers.

To remove the dent in the middle of the container after peeling off the label, wrap felt around it twice, then stick double-sided tape on the outside of the container and wrap yarn tightly around it without gaps.

Attach a bell to a felt strip for the collar and fix it to the reindeer’s neck area with double-sided tape.

Make the antlers from felt reinforced with a cardboard template, and attach them.

For the ears, use felt without a backing and attach them with a hot glue gun.

For the eyes, use stick-on pearl embellishments colored with a black marker.

Finish by attaching a red pom-pom for the nose.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Glowing Snowman

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How about making a fun Christmas-time snowman using just empty Yakult bottles, round stickers, and decoration lights from the 100-yen shop? Peel off the outer label from the empty Yakult bottle, then use round stickers to create the snowman’s features.

For the nose, cut a large round sticker into a triangle—it works great.

Put the decoration light inside, and you’re done.

Even if it’s not a snowman, you can add any pattern to the empty bottle and pop in a decoration light to use it as various kinds of ornaments.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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