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 (41–50)
Bill of Exchange Tree
Let’s use handprint stamps to create a stylish tree.
Stamp your handprints in green ink on the base paper.
The handprints will form the tree, so keep that image in mind as you stamp.
Place a star above the middle finger, draw a cord wrapping around the hand with a black pen, and add colorful lights using fingertip stamps.
Finish by attaching a paper flowerpot made from construction paper.
How about making a large wall decoration using everyone’s handprints? It also seems like a great idea for a Christmas card.
Christmas mobile made from paper cups
https://www.tiktok.com/@rin_hoiku_idea/video/7443415321878301960Brighten your walls with an easy-to-make Christmas mobile.
The materials are paper cups, straws, jute twine, construction paper, round stickers, and present-shaped parts.
Use the paper cups, construction paper, and round stickers to make Santa Claus and a reindeer.
Create the base of the mobile with the straws and jute twine, then hang Santa, the reindeer, and the present parts to finish.
Use thick, sturdy straws designed for tapioca/boba.
Decorating with tape or origami paper will make it even more festive.
Camellia flower wall decoration
A festive-looking camellia wall decoration made with origami! It’s a perfect piece to enjoy the winter season, so give it a try by hand.
To make the camellia petals, fold a circular piece of origami paper, sketch the petal shape, and cut it out with scissors.
For the center of the camellia, cut a strip of origami paper, fold it in half, make fine cuts along the top and bottom, then wrap it around a plastic bottle cap.
The camellia alone is lovely, but pairing it with paper fans made from Japanese-patterned origami or adding strings to turn it into a hanging decoration will make it even more eye-catching.
Jizo Bodhisattva pastel art
Many older people have probably seen rows of Jizo statues along the roadside at least once.
Let’s try turning a scene with Jizo statues into a wall decoration.
With pastel art, you can feel the gentle atmosphere of the Jizo even more.
We’ll powder the pastel medium and create the picture.
Pastel drawings are colored, but you can erase them with an eraser.
You can also use techniques like creating light and dark contrasts, blurring, and gradients.
Once older adults become comfortable with pastel art, it might be nice to have them try various techniques.
Jizo statues suit seasonal landscapes throughout the year.
Please use these pastel art ideas as inspiration.
Heart garland
Heart-themed decorations are cute and suitable for any season.
Try making them with reversible crepe sheets or textured paper, which you can even find at 100-yen shops.
Fold the paper, cut it, and create heart shapes.
Using an accordion fold adds a three-dimensional feel and gives the piece a bumpy, eye-catching accent.
You can connect the finished hearts with string to make a garland, or link four heart pieces together to form a flower-like shape.
Adding string to hang them also looks lovely.
Because it involves a lot of fine motor movement, this craft is also recommended for recreational activities with seniors.
Brush lettering art
Characters written with a brush have a distinctive sense of dynamism, and differences in layout and stroke style reveal individuality.
This piece is about freely writing text in brush script and using it as decoration.
Simply writing directly with a brush is fine, but if you keep design in mind and play with stroke thickness and placement, the letters can give an almost pictorial impression.
Adding accents—such as mixing red elements into the black—further enhances the sense of brilliance, so that approach is also recommended.
Crane and turtle amulet-style ornament
Cranes and turtles are classic decorations imbued with wishes for longevity, and they really convey a distinctly Japanese atmosphere.
How about experiencing the wishes and splendor embedded in such crane and turtle designs through a charm-like ornament? Firmly fold the base paper to create a three-dimensional amulet, then add crane and turtle motifs along with fine embellishments.
Since the crane and turtle serve as the elements that convey your wishes, make them prominently large in the design, and use the surrounding decorations to help them stand out—that’s the key point.