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

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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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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Hina dolls made from wine corks

Shall we make a one-of-a-kind set of Hina dolls together? (You can make them with wine corks and materials from a 100-yen shop)

Many senior care facilities incorporate craft activities that reflect the seasons.

Some staff members may struggle to come up with a theme each time.

Here, we introduce a set of Hina dolls made with unusual materials.

Insert a bamboo skewer into a wine cork and paint it with acrylics.

Squeezing the paint onto a milk carton makes cleanup easy, so it’s recommended.

Drawing the faces might seem tricky, but the seniors’ unique personalities will surely shine through! Use your favorite fabric and a hot glue gun to dress the dolls in kimono.

Add mizuhiki cords or buttons to finish.

These one-of-a-kind Hina dolls will become a wonderful memory.

Please feel free to use this as a reference.

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Wall decoration made from a milk carton

Local News [Milk Carton Craft Workshop] Broadcast on 2022/2/18

Let’s try making Hina dolls for the March Hina Matsuri using milk cartons, which are often used in crafts.

The paper from milk cartons is sturdy and durable.

Since it’s something you always have at home, it’s easy to get and easy to use—that’s another great point.

Let’s use such a milk carton as the base for the Hina dolls.

Decorate the carton base with Japanese-pattern origami, then neatly attach the handmade Odairi-sama and Ohina-sama, also made from origami, in a well-balanced arrangement.

If you make it card-shaped, you can hang it on a wall or display it anywhere in your room.

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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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