Fun January Crafts! A Collection of Ideas You Can Make and Play With for 5-Year-Olds

Shishimai (lion dance) made with cardboard stamps

Roll up a strip of cardboard, dip it in ink, and stamp it! It creates a pattern that looks like a shishimai (lion dance) design.

Stamp several times on green construction paper to make the pattern, and once the ink dries, cut it into the shape of an ema plaque.

Then, glue on facial parts made from construction paper.

After the shishimai is finished, paste it onto a postcard to complete your New Year’s card! When making the face, choose steps that suit the child’s age, like drawing the eyes and teeth with crayons.

If there’s blank space on the postcard, try adding New Year-themed stickers or drawing some pictures.

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Let’s make plum blossoms!

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Let’s incorporate the plum blossom—famous as a New Year’s flower—into your New Year’s card design.

Here’s a paper-cutting idea you can enjoy like a craft project.

Fold origami paper following the set steps, draw two curved lines, and cut along them with scissors.

Then slowly unfold the paper, and your plum blossom is complete.

There are only seven folds in total, and two of those are just to make crease lines.

It’s an idea that’s easy for children to make, so please give it a try.

Create plum blossoms in various sizes and colors to make a vibrant New Year’s card.

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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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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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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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winter hat

[Crafts Winter] “Wearable and Decorative Winter Hats” Origami/Construction Paper Decorations – Wall Decorations (For Nursery Teachers and Caregivers) Papercraft / DIY

Let’s make a hat that will help keep kids warm during outdoor play in the cold winter! Prepare two sheets of construction paper in your favorite color, sized to fit the children’s heads, and punch holes around the edges.

Then thread yarn in your chosen color through the holes, stitching the two sheets together like fabric.

Add a yarn pom-pom on top of the hat, and a small decorative drawing on the front, and it’s done! You can make the pom-pom by wrapping yarn around your fingers, but it’s also a good idea to ask the children for their favorite colors in advance and have the teacher prepare them ahead of time.

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