For Seniors: Wall Decorations to Brighten Up February — Festive Ideas for Setsubun, Valentine’s Day, Plum Blossoms, and More
February wall decorations are a hands-on way to feel close to seasonal events like Setsubun and Valentine’s Day.
You can roll paper to make an ogre’s hair, or use a bamboo mat to craft realistic ehomaki sushi decorations.
As your hands are busy, the moments when lively conversations blossom about fun memories from February will surely be the most heartwarming of all.
This time, we’re sharing ideas for February-specific creations—from cute wreaths to Japanese-style ornaments.
Enjoy the fun of making and the joy of displaying while engaging your fingertips to stimulate the brain.
How about brightening up a senior facility or your home with wall art that evokes the coming of spring?
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[For Seniors] Wall decorations to color February: Festive ideas for Setsubun, Valentine’s Day, plum blossoms, and more (81–90)
Bean-throwing (Mamemaki)
Speaking of Setsubun, it’s a festival for inviting in good fortune and driving away evil, right? This is a wall decoration themed on bean-throwing—an essential custom for repelling those evils, the oni.
Since beans alone are just simple circles, it’s important to create a sense of dynamism that evokes either a container for the beans or the scene of beans being thrown.
First, make a square masu box, which has auspicious connotations, and arrange the beans inside it.
Create the masu’s joints and the beans placed inside as separate pieces, and layer them as you glue them on to give a three-dimensional effect.
Finally, place some beans outside the box as well to complete the piece, and adjust the angles of the beans and where they’re positioned around the masu to convey a lively sense that the beans are flying outward.
Peacock of Snow
This is a wall decoration featuring a peacock gracefully spreading its feathers, incorporating snowflake designs to evoke a winter theme.
Fold origami paper in an accordion pattern to make the feathers, then attach the body piece in the center to create a three-dimensional effect.
Finally, place snowflake designs across the wide-spread feathers to complete it.
The shape of the snowflakes matters, but I think the overall color combination is key to conveying a wintry feel.
It might also be fun to focus on glamour and make a peacock in colors that don’t exist in reality.
Snow Blossom
In February, when the severe cold lingers, many of us probably spend more time indoors.
That’s the perfect time to handcraft “snow blossoms” that are fun to make and beautiful to display! With snow and ice as their motif, these decorations can brighten up your walls and windowsills.
We’ll use familiar tissue paper to create the snow blossoms.
The trick is to accordion-fold the paper, staple it in the center, and gently fluff it open.
Since tissue paper is soft, it’s easy and safe for older adults to work with as well.
You can also customize them by combining lace paper or making paper-cut snowflakes.
Snowball fight
A snowball fight that sends kids’ excitement through the roof has long been a scene that really makes winter feel real.
For older adults, it may be easy to imagine as a February wall decoration, when we typically get more snow.
It’s a simple craft that just involves combining construction paper, so it’s perfect for a day-service recreation activity.
These days you can also download templates online to make it, so it’s an easy project to incorporate as training for the brain and fingertips.
Ogre Pants
There’s even a song that goes, “Oni pants are good pants,” and you know how ogres wear tiger-striped pants (haha).
There are various explanations tied to directions as to why they’re tiger-striped, but they actually have pretty good fashion sense—so how about using oni pants as a wall decoration? It’s also recommended if you’re thinking up unique decorations for Setsubun! Just cut construction paper into the shape of pants, then either draw the tiger stripes or paste on separately cut pieces.
Changing the color of the paper will give it a different feel, so give it a try.
If you make an oni separately and put the pants on it, your wall display will look even more impressive.