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[For Seniors] Enjoy the Cold Winter! Simple, Recommended Crafts
Here are some recommended winter craft ideas that are perfect for seniors!
Winter brings lots of fun events and occasions, such as Christmas and New Year’s.
You might also think of seasonal foods, games, weather, and the cold.
So this time, we’ve gathered many craft ideas that help seniors feel the winter season.
Why not enjoy some craft activities in a warm indoor setting?
Using your fingers and brain can also provide cognitive training benefits.
If the crafts are practical, you can take them home to use or display and enjoy.
Please make use of these ideas in your daily recreation activities.
[For Seniors] Enjoy the Cold Winter! Simple, Recommended Crafts (1–10)
Sparkling snowflakes at the mallNEW!
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.
A small New Year’s pine decoration at the mallNEW!
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.
Daruma ornament
Because they get back up even after falling, daruma dolls are considered lucky ornaments.
How about boosting your New Year spirit by crafting something inspired by a good-luck motif? Cut a milk carton into thin strips, wrap them gently with layered tissue paper, attach a face, and add decorations to complete your daruma.
You can enjoy various arrangements, such as using a toilet paper roll as a stand or placing a folding screen behind the daruma.
Red-and-white daruma are classic, but making them in a variety of colors also sounds fun.
100-yen shop snowman and reindeer
It’s an adorable mascot where a reindeer is peeking out from behind a snowman.
Attach evenly spaced strips of paper, cut into long, thin pieces, around the base of a plastic cup to form the snowman’s round shape.
Then stack two circles and add facial features and other parts to complete the snowman.
The reindeer is a simple design made by cutting and layering parts from construction paper; use the layered paper to create a three-dimensional feel.
Leaving small gaps in the snowman is also an important point—the way light passes through conveys a soft, gentle look.
stand snow globe
Even in harsh cold, a gently falling snow scene can make you feel happy, right? This project expresses that sparkling, snowy view at a photo size.
Inspired by the classic winter ornament, the snow globe, it overlays moving snow onto framed photos or illustrations.
Put liquid laundry starch (or glue) into a zipper bag, add sequins or other decorations, and you’ll have a mechanism where the decorations move slowly when shaken.
Then layer it over a photo or illustration and place it in a photo frame to create an easy-to-display, flat snow globe where the snow moves when you move it.
It’s also great that you can easily customize it—choosing your base photo or illustration, and adjusting the colors and amount of decorations to your liking.
bear
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DIBJuaPz_g0/There are many kinds of dolls made with Yakult containers, but using them upside down might be unusual.
Here, let’s use an empty container upside down to make a bear.
First, stick double-sided tape all around the container, then wrap yarn around and around it.
The bottom of the container will be the head, so attach a circular piece of colored paper there and add the ears.
Draw the nose and mouth on a round sticker and stick it on, add the eyes, and you’re done.
They look very cute if you make lots of them in various colors.
reindeer
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.