Have fun with one-year-olds! A collection of craft ideas featuring recommended January motifs

Let’s enjoy New Year’s games!

[Ages 0–2] Let’s Enjoy New Year’s Games!

Let’s set up various stations in the playground so the children can experience New Year’s traditions.

We’ll introduce five activities: rice-cake pounding (mochitsuki), spinning tops (koma), karuta card games, kite flying (takoage), and visiting a shrine to offer prayers.

For mochitsuki, we’ll actually use a mortar and pestle to pound the mochi, while the tops, karuta, kites, and shrine are all handmade.

By making good use of cardboard and milk cartons, you can create remarkably authentic items.

Children can play with the toys you’ve made, or they can take on the challenge of making them themselves.

Enjoy New Year’s experiences suited to the children’s ages.

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Cute wobbly daruma doll

[Preschool Craft] New Year’s decoration: cute wobbly Daruma | Daruma doll for New Year’s decoration

Let’s make a cute daruma that wobbles when you poke it.

You’ll need a paper plate, construction paper, and a pen.

Please prepare construction paper in four colors for the body, face, eyes, and decorations.

First, cut the body piece of construction paper into a circle to match the size of the paper plate.

Next, cut an oval from the face-colored paper, and cut two small circles from the eye-colored paper.

Glue them in order—body, face, then eyes—and draw the pupils with the pen.

Then cut three ovals from the decorative paper and stick them below the face.

Fold the paper plate in half and attach the daruma to one side—that’s it! If you’re making this with small children, adults should prepare the parts in advance.

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Let’s make a Fukuwarai and play!

[For 4-year-olds] Laugh together! Let’s make and play Fukuwarai!

How about enjoying a classic New Year’s game, fukuwarai? Have the children draw and make the base sheet and facial parts however they like using construction paper and crayons.

By creating them themselves, the kids can grasp what the finished face should look like, and after playing fukuwarai they won’t be able to stop laughing! It might be even funnier if you make it as a self-portrait.

It’s perfectly fine if the fukuwarai face doesn’t turn out “well,” so why not encourage the kids by saying, “Make a funny face on purpose!”

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Cute! How to draw a horse

Among animals, many people find horses particularly difficult to depict in illustrations.

Unlike dogs or cats, they aren’t animals we see up close every day, and drawing just the face—let alone the whole body—raises the difficulty quite a bit.

So here, we’ll introduce an easy way to draw a horse! Surprisingly, you start with the ears.

Draw two ears, connect the space between them, and then sketch a longer outline for the head.

The key to making it look like a horse is to add the mane and pay attention to how you draw the nose.

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Colorful spinning top

Speaking of New Year’s, it’s common to play with traditional toys like spinning tops and battledores.

This time, let’s make a colorful spinning top.

All you do is paint a paper plate cut in half and stick on some chiyogami paper, and it turns out beautifully.

First, cut a paper plate in half and color it with crayons or any colors you like.

Then, paste square pieces of your favorite chiyogami on top, and the body is complete.

You can mount it on a backing sheet or display it as is.

It’s simple, yet each one can show personality—give it a try and make your own unique top.

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Just stick it on! Easy ramen

How about a “stick-on ramen” craft as an activity to enjoy with one-year-olds in chilly February? Parents or teachers can prepare yarn and small pieces shaped like noodles and toppings in advance, and the children can stick them onto a backing sheet.

As they recognize the colors and shapes of the ingredients and arrange the colorful toppings, children can experience making their very own bowl of ramen.

Adults should prepare the backing sheet ahead of time and apply double-sided tape.

Beyond displaying the finished work, the process can nurture interest in colors and food.

Make a warm bowl of ramen and enjoy the seasonal feel together!

[Tissue Paper] Fluffy Snowman

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Recommended winter craft for 1-year-olds! Here’s how to make a cute snowman using tissue paper and a paper plate.

What you’ll need: a paper plate, tissue paper, glue, crayons, a white drawing paper circle cut just a little smaller than the paper plate, and colored construction paper cut into a hat shape.

First, fold the paper plate in half and cut out the inside.

Tear the tissue paper into vertical strips, apply glue to the paper plate, then crumple the tissue paper and stick it on.

Using various colors to make it colorful is also cute.

Draw the snowman’s face with crayons on the round white paper, glue on the hat you made from construction paper, then attach the face to the paper plate—and it’s done!

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