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

Cute for New Year’s cards too! Daruma-chan

Here’s an idea for New Year’s decorations, and since daruma dolls are also a common motif for New Year’s cards, why not use this idea to make a daruma-themed New Year’s card? Make a daruma out of construction paper and attach it to gold design paper along with some flowers.

Simply sticking that onto the front of the card will give it a festive feel.

However, if you’re attaching it to a New Year’s card, be sure to make the daruma as a flat piece.

Create the face with any expression you like, using stickers or pens.

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New Year’s Cards Made with Onions

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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Great for New Year’s cards too! Easy-to-use stamps

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This is a New Year’s card featuring Mount Fuji made with construction paper and stamping.

It’s an easy project that kids can enjoy.

First, cut out the base of Mount Fuji from blue construction paper.

Cut it to postcard size, imagining a trapezoid shape.

Once cut, dab white paint onto a sponge dauber and stamp the upper area.

This creates the look of snow-capped Mount Fuji.

After the paint dries, glue it onto the postcard and draw the sun in the blank space to represent the first sunrise of the year.

Finally, write the year in Western numerals, and you’re done!

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For New Year’s cards! Cushion sheet printmaking

[Anywhere Art] [Easy] Cushion Sheet Printmaking [New Year's Card]

Here’s an easy way to make beautiful New Year’s postcards using cushion foam sheets.

First, take an A4-size clear file, cut off the edge, then cut it in half twice down the middle.

Trim the pieces into postcard shapes.

Next, cut the cushion foam sheet into zodiac shapes, letters, etc., and sketch your design on the backing paper with a permanent marker.

After sticking on the cushion foam pieces, color them with a water-based pen.

Dampen the postcard with a cloth, stamp it, and you’re done! You can usually stamp about three in a row.

Because cushion foam sheets can be repositioned, give it a try!

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Kagami mochi made with origami

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Kagami mochi, which are offered as yorishiro (vessels for the visiting Toshigami deity) during New Year’s, make a perfect design for New Year’s cards.

This time, let’s make kagami mochi using origami.

We’ll create two parts: the sanpō (the stand) and the kagami mochi itself.

Since each is made from a different sheet, please prepare two pieces of origami paper.

Because we also want to represent the mandarin orange on top, have an orange sheet ready.

The folding process includes steps like accordion folds and opening and flattening after creasing.

With only a few steps, it’s an easy, fun challenge for kids.

Be sure to make it and use it as part of your New Year’s card design!

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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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Daruma-chan art with a brush pen

The appeal of brush pens is, after all, that with a single pen you can create both thick and thin lines and end up with lettering full of character.

They’re tricky to handle until you get used to them, but once you can use them, they’re very handy tools that work in all sorts of situations.

In this idea, the “0” in the year is depicted as a daruma doll.

The daruma’s pattern is done with a colored brush pen, and a finer pen is used for the face.

It’s simple yet results in a highly designed illustration, so feel free to try copying it and drawing your own.

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