[For Seniors] Decorate your January wall with rabbits! Packed with ideas like snowball fights, New Year’s festivities, and rice cake pounding
Rabbits that brighten up January’s wall displays are a popular motif that instantly lifts the mood of a room.
Create a New Year’s atmosphere with a kimono-clad rabbit sitting neatly, a wreath made from fluffy yarn, or a snow rabbit crafted in 3D by crumpling tissues—all perfect for expressing the feel of winter and the festive spirit of the New Year.
Making these together with older adults keeps hands active and conversation lively, creating a time full of smiles.
It’s also lovely to admire the finished decorations and reminisce about days gone by.
This winter, why not try your hand at heartwarming rabbit-themed wall art?
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[For Seniors] Decorate your January wall with rabbits! Packed with ideas like snowball fights, New Year’s celebrations, and mochi pounding (21–30)
Rabbit garland
This is a rabbit garland made with softly colored yarn.
Because the decoration lines up rabbit faces side by side, you can create connected art as you assemble the garland.
To make the rabbits’ round faces, we recommend getting a pom-pom maker from a 100-yen shop.
Wrap your favorite yarn around it, snip, and tie to complete the pom-poms.
At this point, tie the pom-poms onto a string to form the garland.
Next, attach ears made from felt and pre-cut fabric to the faces to complete the cute rabbits.
When using fasteners or scissors, please have a staff member assist.
A rabbit playing karuta
It’s an idea that combines a traditional game, karuta, with rabbits! “Iroha karuta” is the game where you grab the card that matches the proverb being read aloud—many younger people have probably played it too.
It’s one of those New Year’s games that really feels seasonal.
A wall decoration themed around karuta is perfect for this time of year! If you use the zodiac animal for the karuta illustrations, it will feel even more fitting.
You can even make it playable as-is and enjoy it with your grandchildren.
Give it a try!
A rabbit playing daruma-otoshi
Many seniors probably played Daruma-otoshi when they were children.
There’s something really satisfying about that clinking feeling as you tap away with the little wooden mallet.
So here we have a wall decoration of a rabbit playing Daruma-otoshi.
Daruma dolls have long been associated with celebrations, and adding the zodiac rabbit makes it all the more festive.
You can certainly use cut-out cardstock pieces for the Daruma and rabbit faces, but drawing them yourself with a pen might make you feel even more attached to the piece.
rake
Kumade are traditional decorative rakes that have long been cherished in Japan.
Originally farm tools used to gather fallen leaves, they came to symbolize “gathering good fortune,” and have been treated as lucky charms since olden times.
How about decorating a kumade with a rabbit? A kumade featuring the zodiac rabbit—there aren’t many ideas that seem this auspicious.
You can get the materials at your local 100-yen shop or home improvement store.
You could even make the rabbit yourself out of origami!
battledore (a traditional Japanese decorative paddle used for New Year, also used in the game hanetsuki)
Hagoita paddles are a sure-fire idea! When you think of things associated with New Year’s and January, they come to mind alongside kagami mochi, shimenawa, and kites.
So why not decorate your wall with an ornament that combines a hagoita and a rabbit? Cute and simple versions using origami and cardstock are, of course, great, and if you want to go all out, trying tsumami-zaiku will make it look luxurious and beautiful! Decorations with a bit of dimension really lift the mood all by themselves.
Give it a try when you have some time!
Bunny Wreath
One animal that suits winter well might be the rabbit.
Its fluffy white fur is like snow and matches the season perfectly.
How about making a rabbit wreath using pom-poms made from yarn? Use a pom-pom maker sold at 100-yen shops to wrap the yarn and create fluffy balls.
Since wrapping the yarn uses fine motor skills, it’s also great for rehabilitation.
Once the balls are ready, attach ears made from precut fabric and felt.
Finish by gluing on ten rabbit heads with a hot glue gun.
Fukuwarai wall decoration of a rabbit daruma
Would you like to make a rabbit daruma decoration—an arrangement perfect for New Year’s that adds a cute twist to the traditional daruma and brightens up your wall décor? Use the template downloadable from YouTube to cut out each part.
For round pieces like the eyes, a circle punch is handy.
Once everything is cut out, glue the parts in place while referring to the template.
The expression will change depending on where you position the pieces, which is part of the fun.
Give it a try!