[Day Service] Excited for Hinamatsuri! Craft ideas to brighten up your room

Hanging hina dolls made from empty containers

(9) Hina dolls made from plastic bottles (Art Fun Squad vol. 31: Hanging decorations for the Peach Festival)

Don’t you feel a little excited as Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day) approaches? Many older adults probably have cherished childhood memories of it.

Or, for seniors with children or grandchildren, it may feel even more meaningful.

This time, we’ll introduce an easy craft you can make at home: hanging Hina dolls using empty containers.

Besides plastic bottles, empty containers from lactic acid bacteria drinks work too.

First, make a hole in the container and thread a string through it.

Since making holes can be dangerous, please have staff handle this step.

Next, place washi-patterned origami inside the container to dress it like a kimono.

Draw the Hina doll’s face, hang it with the string, and in no time it’s finished!

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Nanaka

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Hanging ornaments

How to make hanging hina dolls

Let’s make a hanging decoration perfect for Hinamatsuri by combining easy-to-make origami and motifs! You can mix classics like origami cranes and paper balloons.

Tie them onto strings together with colored-in hina dolls, construction paper cut into peach blossoms, and accordion-folded fans to create a lovely hanging display.

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yuri

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Paku-Paku Hina Doll

[Craft] It opens and closes its mouth!? How to make a paper cup doll!

Hina dolls have a refined and glamorous image.

But wouldn’t it be fun to make a slightly mischievous hina doll whose mouth opens and closes wide? Cut a deep slit in the side of a paper cup, then make the same slit on the opposite side and open the cup.

This creates a base for a puppet that chomps open and shut with the bottom as the pivot.

After that, draw the hina doll’s face on the upper part and kimono patterns on the lower part, and it’s complete! It might also be fun to put on a puppet show with the dolls you’ve made.

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yuri

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Paper-cup Hina dolls

Hinamatsuri dolls that pop out from a paper cup

These are Hina dolls made from paper cups that you can whip up in very little time.

All you need are patterned paper cups and origami paper—everything can be found at the 100-yen shop, so the low cost is another nice perk! They’re perfect for chatting and crafting together at a day service center.

First, draw the Hina dolls’ faces on the bottom of the paper cups and their sleeves on the sides.

Next, make cuts in the cup, leaving about 1.5 cm from the bottom intact, and cut out the sleeve areas as well.

Finally, fold the faces upright and adjust the sleeves so they lift slightly, then add accessories like crowns made from origami to finish.

Display them as ornaments and enjoy decorating your room.

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roly-poly toy

Can you tell which character it is? A roly-poly toy. #IndoorPlay #ParentChildPlay #Crafts #HandmadeToy #BalloonPlay

This is a darling roly-poly Hina doll that pops back up even when it falls over.

Attach the faces of the paper Hina dolls you made to toothpicks, then insert them into holes you’ve made in the bottoms of paper cups.

Stick origami onto the sides of the cups to resemble kimono.

Cover a capsule-toy capsule filled with clay with the paper cup, and you’ll have a gently wobbly roly-poly doll all finished! It’s a handy idea that you can easily adapt just by changing what you cover it with, so be sure to remember it!

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yuri

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