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 (1–10)
spinning bagworm
Bagworms, whose hibernation inside their cases is striking, are also known for appearing in traditional Japanese works such as haiku by Matsuo Basho.
By displaying them together with fallen leaves, let’s create an item that allows seniors to feel winter even indoors.
The key is to take a rectangular piece of origami paper, add fine lines, and roll it—this rolled section is the focal point.
Roll each piece individually to achieve a three-dimensional finish.
After combining it with eye parts, thread a string through at the end and hang it on the wall.
It’s also recommended to make the cases in multiple colors instead of just a single color.
Christmas tree
No matter how old we get, there’s something about the approach of Christmas that makes our hearts race with excitement, isn’t there? How about making an essential Christmas-tree wall decoration out of origami and enjoying the process? It’s also great for practicing fine motor skills, so give it a try! Accordion-fold green origami paper, glue one end, and secure it with a clothespin or similar clip.
Next, make the trunk from brown origami paper, attach it, and let everything dry.
Open up the accordion and your fir tree is complete! I think it would look lovely decorated with gold or silver origami cut into circles or stars.
A ceremonial arrow with an ema (wooden votive plaque) attached
Here’s an idea for handcrafting a familiar winter item: a decorative New Year’s bow and arrow (hamayumi) with an ema plaque.
You can make the bow using paper straws and construction paper, and since the materials come from a 100-yen shop, preparation is easy.
Creating it together with older adults is a great opportunity to use concentration and fine motor skills.
It’s even said to have brain-training benefits! Display the finished hamayumi somewhere visible, filled with your wishes and hopes for the New Year.
While enjoying a traditional atmosphere, it will make a lovely wall decoration that lets you feel the season in a fun way.
How about spending a heartwarming time making it together with older adults?
[For Seniors] Recommended Winter Wall Decorations: Heartwarming Ideas (11–20)
Stamp pon-pon, warm kotatsu
In the cold season, it feels so nice to warm up inside a kotatsu, doesn’t it? This is a stamp-based craft that seems to capture the kotatsu’s cozy warmth.
You can make the stamps by attaching pieces of sponge to chopsticks or a thin stick—simple materials are fine.
Dip your handmade sponge stamps in paint and gently dab them onto a paper kotatsu made from construction paper.
Since it doesn’t require much force, it’s a project that older adults may find easy to enjoy.
It’s also a nice touch to add a paper cat made from construction paper alongside the kotatsu.
Origami: Mount Fuji ema (votive plaque)
How about making an origami ema plaque with your New Year’s wishes for the New Year? First, fold the origami paper toward the center to halve it, then fold it in half again.
Next, fold the left and right sides diagonally to create angles and form the shape of an ema.
Finally, make a slit in the center so you can thread a string through.
Also, slightly fold each of the four corners of a small red origami paper to make a sun; fold a small green origami paper like a crane at first, then spread the left and right sides to make a pine shape.
For the blue origami paper, if you use the white reverse side to suggest snow, you can create a beautiful Mt.
Fuji.
With the first sunrise from Mt.
Fuji, your auspicious ema is complete!
Winter camellia and snow rabbit
These charming handmade decorations let you enjoy the feeling of winter on your walls.
The contrast between the pure white snow rabbit and the vivid winter camellias is striking, catching the eye and adding a quiet winter elegance.
Winter camellias are easy to create with colored paper or origami, giving them a soft, handmade appeal.
Why not bring winter’s unique cuteness and warmth into your room with an easy-to-make yet high-quality “Winter Camellias and Snow Rabbit” wall decoration? It’s a piece that joyfully captures the seasonal spirit of January as you welcome the New Year.
Setsubun! Oni head
Speaking of February, it’s Setsubun.
How about making a slightly different wall decoration this year? This wall display is a unique idea that focuses not on the ogre’s face, but on the ogre’s head.
Stack seven sheets of tissue paper, accordion-fold them, staple the center, then round off both ends with scissors.
Gently open it without applying force.
Once you have a round head shape, attach horns made from yellow origami.
Make the ogre’s pants and the holly-and-sardine charm with origami as well.
If seniors make the ogre heads in their favorite colors, the space will be filled with a bright, colorful atmosphere.
