For 4-Year-Olds: January Crafts! A Collection of Fun Ideas with Winter and New Year Themes

Winter oden shop pretend play

Winter Oden Shop Pretend Play 🍢 – Handmade Yarn Toys [Nursery/Kindergarten]

On cold days, some families might gather around a pot of oden.

So let’s make oden ingredients that look just like the real thing and have fun playing pretend shop.

By cleverly using materials like yarn, toilet paper rolls, and felt, you can create delicious-looking oden pieces.

The key is to add small touches, such as coloring them to look like the flavors have soaked in, or giving them a soft, fluffy finish.

Kids will likely enjoy dabbing on color with a sponge, too.

Put them in a toy pot, and when you lift the lid, you’ll have oden that looks good enough to eat.

The children are sure to be delighted by pretend play with such realistic oden ingredients.

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Origami for New Year’s that you can also use on walls!

[New Year/January] Origami instructions you can also use for wall displays [Daycare/Kindergarten]

Ornaments that bring good luck and toys we don’t usually play with are part of the unique New Year’s scene.

Let’s try making origami pieces of things you only see at New Year’s.

Finished origami like kagami mochi, daruma dolls, and hagoita paddles are also great as wall decorations.

As the shapes take form with origami, kids might chime in, saying, “We have the same thing decorating our room!” If you’re making a daruma, let the children draw the face however they like.

These are lively, fun origami projects to create together.

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Make a stylish snowman!

[Winter Bulletin Board] Stylish Snowman Craft by Preschool Teachers (for 4-year-olds)

We usually imagine snowmen as pure white, but let’s get creative and turn them into stylish art.

First, fold a sheet of white origami paper and make several cuts.

The key is to cut it so that when you unfold the paper, it forms a round shape.

You’ll get a circular shape with beautiful patterns.

Children will be excited to see how the snowman’s pattern changes depending on where they cut.

Use the patterned cutouts to make the snowman.

If you stick it onto black cardstock, you’ll have a lovely winter craft.

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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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Scratch-off New Year’s card

Scratch-off cards you scrape with a coin make your heart pound with excitement as you wonder what’s written underneath, don’t they? How about incorporating that scratch-off idea into your New Year’s cards? You can easily make the scratch-off layer by simply mixing acrylic paint with dish soap.

Kids can enjoy it like a craft project, too.

As a New Year’s lucky draw, definitely try adding a scratch-off to your card designs.

Instead of painting the scratch layer directly, apply wax to the parts you want to hide first, then paint over it.

Once it’s fully dry, it will scrape off nicely.

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New Year’s cards made with stencils

If you’re not good at drawing, try using stencils! With stencils, you just dab ink over a stencil sheet with a sponge, so even kids can easily create illustrations.

You can buy stencil sheets, but you can also make your own by punching shapes out of a clear file with a craft punch.

Think about the kind of illustration you want as you design with your stencil sheet.

Adding patterns or drawing faces on top with a pen will give your illustration a more polished, next-level finish.

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Zodiac illustrations using tape cores

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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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