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

Perfect for New Year! Cute origami osechi

[Origami] Osechi: How to make simple and cute New Year’s origami crafts — Winter origami, January origami, an easy folding method that even kids can do [Origami]

Let’s make osechi ryori—New Year’s dishes that taste great when everyone eats together—using origami.

Using black origami paper, make four folded box parts for the outer box and glue them together in a box shape.

Attach them while checking the balance.

Next, make four inner boxes.

Once you set the inner boxes into the outer box, the base is complete.

For the contents, fold shrimp, nori (seaweed), kamaboko (fish cake), kelp rolls, and kampyo (dried gourd strips), making firm creases as you go.

Before you start, reading a picture book about the New Year to learn about its origins and meanings will help you enjoy making them even more.

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How to Make a Kite You Can Enjoy Playing With on New Year’s

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Here’s an idea for making spinning tops with acorns—very popular as an autumn craft.

You can buy acorns online, but since they’re often found on the ground in season, it’s great to use ones you’ve collected.

If you do, be sure to wash them and disinfect them with boiling water to prevent bugs before using.

The method is very simple: just make a hole in the acorn and insert a toothpick.

If the acorn is hard and difficult to pierce, have an adult help.

Drawing faces or patterns with a pen makes them extra cute!

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Perfect for New Year too! A Daruma you can make and play with

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In January, it seems many regions hold Daruma markets.

Crafting a lucky Daruma is perfect for a January art project.

Prepare three strips of construction paper cut into small tanzaku-like pieces.

Take one marble and glue the paper strips together to wrap around it.

Draw a Daruma face on a round sticker and attach it to the marble-filled paper to finish.

Because the marble is inside, the Daruma will roll around amusingly when you set it in motion.

If you make a slope and hold Daruma-rolling races, the children are sure to get excited.

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Let’s make it snow with Choki-Choki-Pon!

Let’s make it snow using stencils cut from origami paper.

First, fold the origami into quarters to make a triangle, then fold it even more finely.

Once folded, use scissors to cut along the outside and inside and then unfold it.

You’ll see unexpectedly beautiful snowflake shapes appear.

Load a sponge with white paint, place the stencil on a dark-colored backing paper, and dab to make lots of snowflakes.

It might be fun to shift the stencil slightly and dab again.

If you try different cutting methods when making the stencils, you’ll get all kinds of snowflakes, which makes it really interesting.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Cute decoupage gloves

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Are you familiar with decalcomania? It’s a technique where you press together paint applied to paper and transfer the accidental patterns that form.

Let’s use this to make decorations for gloves.

First, fold a sheet of colored construction paper in half and apply paint however you like on one side.

Once you’ve applied the paint, press the other half down to transfer the pattern.

Then cut the paper you’ve made into the shape of a glove.

Decorating the glove opening with cotton or similar materials adds a cute, three-dimensional look.

You can also glue it onto a backing sheet and add yarn or other embellishments.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Easy-to-make snowman using a plastic bottle

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For winter crafts, many projects use snowmen as their theme, don’t they? If you use an empty plastic bottle, you can easily make a snowman craft.

Stuff cotton into the empty bottle.

Once the container is tightly filled, put the cap on, then draw eyes with a pen or decorate it with stickers.

Wrap a thin, long strip of felt or ribbon around the snowman’s neck area and glue it on to finish.

You can display it in your room as is, or make several and line them up to play like bowling—it sounds fun either way.

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Just roll it up and stick it on! Easy-peasy kagami mochi

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Let’s try making New Year’s kagami mochi out of tissue paper.

It’s just rolling and gluing, so it’s great for small children, too.

First, glue a paper sanpō (offering stand) that you cut from construction paper onto a backing sheet.

Next, tear the tissue paper into vertical strips.

Spread glue on top of the sanpō, then crumple the tissue paper into little balls and stick them on.

Finally, glue on a round “daidai” orange cut from construction paper to finish.

Drawing a little face on the orange is cute, too.

Display it in your entryway or living room to create a lovely New Year’s atmosphere.

Give it a try!

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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