[Childcare] Fun to Make! February Craft Ideas Collection
February is full of unique delights—like Setsubun, Valentine’s Day, and activities that make the most of the cold, such as ice-making—that children look forward to.
However, when it snows or the temperature drops too low, there will be more days when you can’t go outside.
So this time, we’re sharing craft ideas perfect for February.
We’ve gathered lots of fun projects that will excite children and blow away the winter chill.
Be sure to try making them together with your kids.
Note: Since items made by children are treated as artworks, we refer to them as “creations” in the text.
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[Childcare] Fun to make! February craft ideas (11–20)
Plastic bottle bracelet
Let’s make accessories out of recycled materials! Here are some ideas for PET bottle bracelets.
What you’ll need: a PET bottle, an iron, scissors, a utility knife, masking tape, and nail polish.
Since you’ll be using an iron and a utility knife, it’s safer to make these together with a parent or teacher.
If you use a PET bottle with ridges or patterns, those textures become a cute highlight of the design.
It could also be fun to customize with permanent markers or stickers as you go.
Give it a try!
Moving paper-cup penguin
It flutters as it moves—so cute! Let me show you how to make a paper cup penguin.
You’ll need two paper cups, round stickers, a utility knife, a pencil, light blue construction paper, double-sided tape, glue, and scissors.
Crafts you can play with afterward keep kids engaged indoors for a long time.
How about making a penguin out of paper cups? When you stack the cups and move them up and down, the beak and flippers flutter—such a fun idea! Be sure to try making it together with your child.
Origami Polar Bear
Here’s an idea for making a polar bear out of origami.
All you need is origami paper.
Polar bears are active even in cold environments, and it seems their secret lies in their transparent fur! Why not try making such a polar bear with origami? Some steps can be a bit complicated, so at first, try making it together with a parent or teacher.
It could be fun to draw eyes on your origami polar bear or paste it onto construction paper! This idea recreates even the fine details of a polar bear.
Give it a try!
Origami snowman
Introducing a realistic snowman figurine that’s made from just one sheet of origami paper.
Prepare a single sheet of origami with a white backside.
It may look complicated at first glance, but if you follow the steps in order, you’ll end up with a cute, round, two-tiered snowman body.
Once the origami snowman body is complete, finish it by cutting and pasting on details like the face, hat, and twig arms to create an adorable snowman.
Instead of cutting and pasting colored paper, you can also draw the details with colored pens.
It’s fun to make lots of bodies in advance and then let small children or friends freely create the expressions.
Ogre Pants
Let’s make ogre pants to get into the Setsubun spirit! Cut yellow construction paper into a pants shape sized to fit the children, then use a craft knife to make vertical wavy slits.
Insert thin strips of black construction paper horizontally through the slits, glue them in place, and trim the excess—done in no time! Making them in a realistic size that kids could actually wear helps everyone picture what an oni would look like wearing them.
It might be fun to try different patterns while guessing things like, “What kind of pants will the oni wear this year?”
Oden wall decoration
Craving something warm for the cold season? Here’s a craft project to make oden using construction paper.
Prepare construction paper cut into oden ingredient shapes, a soup shape, a pot shape, and a spoon shape.
When it gets cold, we all start longing for hot oden, don’t we? Some children may have already tried oden at home.
It could be fun to ask, “What’s your favorite oden ingredient?” before starting the craft! Try this oden-making activity with construction paper—give it a go!
[Childcare] Fun to Make! February Craft Ideas (21–30)
Oni masks made with various materials and techniques
Let’s make oni masks using fun art techniques! The way to create the mask base and horn parts is the same; only the hair section uses different techniques.
We’ll introduce bleeding watercolor, wax-resist painting, torn-paper collage, and ideas that use glued-on yarn or tissue paper.
During Setsubun, we drive away oni by throwing beans.
Oni are scary, but wearing a mask you made yourself might give you the courage to face them.
Enjoy the crafting process and try expressing your own kind of strength!
