Recommended winter wall decorations for seniors: heartwarming ideas
During the persistently cold winter, many older adults tend to spend more time indoors.
Winter is full of enjoyable events and festivities, such as Christmas, New Year’s, and Setsubun.
Let’s help older adults feel the season even while indoors with winter-themed wall decorations!
In addition to winter events and traditions, there are also decorations inspired by flowers that are at their best during this time of year.
Craft activities that use fine motor skills can help prevent dementia and are also recommended as a communication tool.
Enjoy creating together and have a wonderful time.
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[For Seniors] Recommended Winter Wall Decorations: Heartwarming Ideas (71–80)
Toilet paper Christmas wreath
Cut toilet paper rolls into thin strips, shape them like leaves, and assemble them into a wreath.
In addition to painting the rolls green, you can also apply translucent origami paper to enhance the leafy look—this is highly recommended.
Incorporating various colors of origami adds accents to the arrangement of leaves, resulting in a more beautiful wreath.
Finally, attach small decorations to finish it off; since the overall color is green, adding red will further emphasize the Christmas vibe.
Valentine’s hanging decoration
As the big February event, Valentine’s Day, approaches, why not get into the spirit by making hanging decorations with chocolate and heart motifs? These can all be made with origami, so be sure to include them in your February craft activity at the day service! Hearts and ribbons are easy to make using strips of origami paper.
You can also enjoy creating other Valentine-themed items with origami, such as strawberries, heart-shaped letters, and chocolate bars.
It might be lovely to make them together while sharing stories of romance and fond memories.
Felt Christmas garland
Why not brighten up your room by handmaking a garland with Christmas-colored felt? All it takes is cutting, rolling, and gluing felt, and you’ll end up with a stylish, cozy piece! First, cut felt into holly shapes in two sizes—large and small—and glue them together.
Next, cut the felt into circles, snip them into a spiral, and create flowers by rolling from the tip while gluing as you go.
The trick is to make flowers in different colors and various sizes! Finally, attach each piece to jute twine, and you’re done.
It’s a craft that uses fine motor skills, so be sure to include it in your day service’s winter craft activity!
Poinsettia wall decoration
This decoration features a poinsettia—an essential motif for Christmas—made by layering leaf parts in red and green.
Fold origami and cut it to create six-directional leaf pieces, then make them in different sizes and stack them to add a three-dimensional feel.
Adding a small indentation in the center gives it a realistic look that seems to spread outward.
It’s also recommended to try variations such as using crepe paper to change the overall mood, or putting extra care into decorating the backing board to which it’s attached.
Plum blossoms and camellias made with pom-poms
This is a vibrant wall decoration featuring plum blossoms and camellias—the quintessential flowers of winter.
It’s a simple craft you can make easily with materials from a 100-yen shop.
It’s perfect for craft activities during the winter when it’s harder to go out, so why not make it together and enjoy a brighter mood? To make the plum and camellia flowers, thread pom-poms onto a wire, form a loop, then twist to secure.
Thread yarn through these motifs to turn them into wall or hanging decorations.
By varying the pom-pom sizes and adding celebratory colors like red, pink, and white, you’ll get an extra festive, eye-catching finish!
Christmas wreath at the mall
Introducing an easy-to-make Christmas wreath that only requires twisting pipe cleaners from a 100-yen shop.
This craft uses your fingertips extensively, making it effective for fine-motor rehab for seniors! Why not include it in your preparations for Christmas events? To make it, overlap the ends of two pipe cleaners and twist them together, then clamp a pen, straw, or battery between the pipe cleaners and twist two or three times.
Repeat this process, and once you’ve wrapped to the end, form a circle and twist the two ends together to connect—done! Adding ribbon-shaped pipe cleaners or decorative stickers will make it even more festive.
Try making it with your favorite colors and get into the Christmas spirit.
Christmas wreath made with pipe cleaners
This is a cute, small Christmas wreath made by forming a circle with softly coiled pipe cleaners.
Since the goal is to create a tiny finished piece, it naturally draws attention to fine finger movements and focus on handwork.
Make parts of uniform length by wrapping a pipe cleaner around a pencil, then thread those parts onto a single pipe cleaner that serves as the wreath base.
It’s important to pay attention to the length of each part and carefully shape everything into a neat circle.
Because the base is a small wreath, it’s recommended to use small decorations like stickers or beads.