[January] Enjoy with 2-year-olds! A collection of craft ideas that capture winter and the New Year

Fun for childcare! Indoor winter activities

[For 2-Year-Olds] Winter Asobi-Comi

Let me introduce some winter indoor activities that include crafts.

You can roll up cotton to look like fake snow, or put it into a plastic kiddie pool and play dynamically as if it were a bubble bath.

Use stamps on black construction paper to represent snowflakes, then glue origami penguins on top to create a winter-themed wall display.

A glowing tunnel made by sticking phosphorescent stickers onto cardboard is a space where kids will want to stay forever.

Why not fully enjoy winter indoors while incorporating children’s free ideas along the way?

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How to make a fun Fukuwarai

Fukuwarai Craft Full of Stimuli for Growth☆ January/Winter Craft Book: “We Made Funny Faces” ~For 2- and 3-Year-Olds~ [Nursery School/Kindergarten]

Here’s a craft idea for “Fukuwarai,” a traditional New Year’s game.

This version uses a daruma motif, letting you enjoy the game while you make it.

First, glue a daruma body—cut from construction paper—onto a backing sheet.

Then cut out the parts for the eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows, and cheeks.

Put on a blindfold and enjoy playing Fukuwarai by placing the parts on the face.

Glue the parts where they land, and decorate the empty areas of the backing sheet with flowers.

Finally, use crayons to draw the flower centers and the daruma’s patterns to complete your craft.

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A spinning top you can make with paper plates!

[Preschool Craft] Perfect for New Year’s crafts! Spinning tops made from paper plates | Colorful frames made from paper plates

Simple yet spins great! Here’s a spinning top idea made from a paper plate.

Prepare one paper plate, two plastic bottle caps, tape, and crayons.

First, color the surface of the paper plate with crayons.

You can draw pictures or patterns—design it however you like.

Once it’s colored, use tape to attach a bottle cap to the center.

Attach another cap to the center on the back side the same way, and your top is complete.

Pinch the caps and give it a strong spin.

It spins especially well on hard surfaces like hardwood floors.

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Zodiac illustrations using tape cores

@hoikushi_bank

Zodiac illustrations using tape cores#IllustrationSimple illustrationZodiac (Chinese zodiac)Zodiac Animal Illustrations#New Year's cardNew Year’s greeting card illustration

♪ Yes, gladly — Kent from this side

It’s an idea where you use the core of a tape roll to draw a face outline and then turn it into various animals.

It’s really fun to watch a single round shape transform into illustrations of different animals like a horse, sheep, monkey, and chicken.

You can use the circle as the full outline, or just use part of it.

Since you can’t erase unwanted lines if you start with a pen, begin by sketching in pencil and then trace over it with a pen afterward.

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New Year’s Cards Made with Onions

@atelier.ukippa

Using onions, we made New Year’s cards that kids can easily create in bulk! Draw patterns with a black Posca marker and the tiger is complete 🐯 Acrylic paint from the 100-yen shop works just fine.Life with childrenCrafts with Childrenwork#New Year's cardChildren's New Year's Card#VegetableStamp

♬ Itadakimasu – COINN

Cut an onion in half, paint the cut surface with paint, and stamp it.

Use that as the outline, then draw a face with a pen to turn it into an animal illustration.

Even with the same onion, each cross-section is different, and the way the paint goes on will change the look of the stamp.

In the video, they also use a triangular stamp to depict a tiger, but by changing the shape of the ears, you can represent various animals.

If you stack the shapes to make a snowman, it would make a wintery New Year’s card.

Let your imagination grow and try creating a perfect New Year’s card design using an onion stamp.

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Let’s make postcards with vegetable stamps!

Don’t waste them—let’s make postcards with vegetable stamps!

There are parts of vegetables that we cut off and don’t use in cooking, right? Let’s try turning those usually discarded parts into stamps and make New Year’s cards! You can use any vegetables you like—onions, green peppers, carrots, lotus root, spinach, and so on.

Prepare several vegetable stamps with different shapes.

Once you’ve got your veggies ready, dip them in paint or ink and start stamping.

They might look like flowers or animal faces—your imagination will surely expand.

Try expressing the design side of the postcard with your stamped artwork.

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Fun in winter! Let’s play Oden shop

@taisougakuen_osaka_ikuno

Sora Class (middle preschoolers) made oden! 🍢 They snipped away, making as many oden ingredients as they liked and put them into the pot. 🍲 Looks delicious! 😍 They captured the characteristics perfectly, with great shapes and use of color. 💮Gymnastics#Nursery school#Excellent Unlicensed Nursery SchoolI love gymnastics.#IkunoIkuno Ward, Osaka CityFun childcareUnique childcareI want to connect with people who like gymnastics.#Eins Gymnastics Club#fypMiddle-year kindergarten studentProduction#Oden

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Here’s a humorous craft idea where children transform into oden shop owners.

The oden ingredients are made by cutting and pasting construction paper and drawing patterns with pens.

Stick those into a paper pot you’ve made.

Glue the pot near the bottom of a large backing sheet, and above it, attach photos of the children with twisted headbands and their arms folded.

Finally, hang a noren curtain at the top of the backing sheet to finish! The children also write the characters on the noren, and each one gives the shop its own unique vibe.

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