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

Handmade karuta

[Kindergarten/Daycare] January New Year Handmade Karuta Art/Pottery

Handmade karuta is the perfect craft for children who are just starting to learn hiragana! When they make their own cards, they become more interested in hiragana during the process and can enjoy playing while experiencing the fun of being able to read letters.

Prepare card bases and pieces with hiragana characters on them, and let the children choose the characters they like.

After they stick their chosen characters onto the bases, have them draw a picture on a separate sheet that matches the hiragana they picked.

Once they paste on their finished drawings, their original karuta set is complete! With children’s rich imaginations, the result will surely be a set of cards with designs that adults would never think of.

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Handmade scarf making

Super Easy: How to Knit a Handmade Scarf — No Crochet Hook Needed! Just a Plastic Bottle and Chopsticks

Here’s a perfect handmade scarf project for chilly January.

When you think of a handmade scarf, you probably imagine knitting with needles and yarn.

This time, we’ll make a scarf using an empty plastic bottle.

Cut out a section of the bottle.

It’s recommended that the teacher prepare the cut pieces in advance.

Attach several wooden chopsticks to the side of the bottle.

By repeatedly wrapping and looping yarn around the attached chopsticks, you can create a scarf.

Wrapping and looping the yarn are delicate steps, but since the process is mostly repetitive, children can make it on their own.

Adding pom-poms to the finished scarf will make it even more charming.

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Plum Blossom Wreath

[Easy] Hinamatsuri ✨ How to Make a Pom-Pom Plum Blossom Wreath [No Sewing Needed] No glue required! Everything from the dollar store!

This is a New Year–style plum blossom wreath made with fluffy yarn and pom-poms you can find even at 100-yen shops.

Carefully wrap the fluffy yarn around the wreath base so there are no gaps.

To make each plum blossom, thread five pom-poms onto a wire and loop them together.

Cut the wire a bit long so you can insert it into the wreath later.

Create plum blossoms in various sizes, attach them to the prepared wreath, and embed a yellow pom-pom in the center of each flower.

You’ll have a bright, warm-looking wreath ready to celebrate the season!

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Battledore made from a milk carton

[Daycare/Kindergarten] New Year’s Craft! How to Make a Milk Carton Battledore (Hagoita) [100-Yen Store DIY]

When it comes to traditional New Year’s games, hanetsuki with a hagoita paddle is a classic! Hagoita can be quite pricey to buy, but you can actually make one out of an empty milk carton! First, open up the milk carton and crease it into the shape of a hagoita.

Stick a wooden chopstick in the center to serve as the handle, then fold the carton along the creases to wrap around it, and secure everything firmly with packing tape or similar.

Wrap the handle with leftover pieces of the carton, and apply vinyl tape around the handle and the paddle’s edges.

And there you have it—an easy-to-make, surprisingly sturdy hagoita.

Enjoy finishing it off by drawing designs or decorating it with New Year–style washi patterns or origami paper.

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Paper mittens you can make (with drawing paper)

[Winter Craft Idea♪] Easy construction paper project! How to make mittens 🧤⛄️ #preschoolcrafts #nurseryschoolteacher #teachersideas #traineeECCEteacher #teacherlife #withkids #constructionpaper #papercraft #mittens

Let’s make some cute mittens to warm up those cold hands! Use two sheets of construction paper in your favorite color, and cut both of them into mitten shapes.

Decorate the cut-out mittens by drawing patterns with crayons and adding stickers.

Then attach a piece of yarn, cut to a suitable length, to connect the two mittens—and you’re done! You might also like to size them to match your own hands.

They’re great as part of a wall display too, so definitely try making them to bring a warm, cozy feeling into your room.

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