[January Crafts] Fun DIY Ideas for Kids: Perfect for Use in Childcare

Let’s make a hat with wax-resist painting!

Crayon-resist Art: Perfect winter crafts for 4- to 5-year-olds! A preschool teacher explains how to make hats and mittens.

Let’s enjoy wax-resist painting with winter-themed motifs! First, draw a hat and a pair of mittens on white paper.

Have the children trace the outlines with a white crayon, then let them add any patterns they like.

Since they’ll be drawing white on white, it’s hard to see—but hang in there! Once the patterns are done, paint over everything with watercolor diluted with water.

This will make the patterns drawn with the white crayon appear as if they’re popping out.

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Recommended in January! Make feathers and hagoita (battledores)

[Made in January] Hagoita and Hane (battledore and shuttlecock)

Speaking of games famous for the New Year, it has to be the traditional hagoita (battledore) game.

Let’s prepare milk cartons, bottle caps, raffia tape (suzuran tape), construction paper, scissors, and glue, and make one together.

For the paddle part, cut the milk carton into the shape of a hagoita and double it up to increase strength.

If you make the handle even sturdier, it will be easier to use.

For decorations, it’s recommended to cut shapes from construction paper or origami paper.

For the shuttlecock, place two bottle caps together and insert shredded raffia tape between them, then secure it firmly with tape.

Once it’s finished, try playing with your friends and have fun.

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Cute! How to draw a horse

Among animals, many people find horses particularly difficult to depict in illustrations.

Unlike dogs or cats, they aren’t animals we see up close every day, and drawing just the face—let alone the whole body—raises the difficulty quite a bit.

So here, we’ll introduce an easy way to draw a horse! Surprisingly, you start with the ears.

Draw two ears, connect the space between them, and then sketch a longer outline for the head.

The key to making it look like a horse is to add the mane and pay attention to how you draw the nose.

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Scratch-off New Year’s card

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Scratch-off cards you scrape with a coin make your heart pound with excitement as you wonder what’s written underneath, don’t they? How about incorporating that scratch-off idea into your New Year’s cards? You can easily make the scratch-off layer by simply mixing acrylic paint with dish soap.

Kids can enjoy it like a craft project, too.

As a New Year’s lucky draw, definitely try adding a scratch-off to your card designs.

Instead of painting the scratch layer directly, apply wax to the parts you want to hide first, then paint over it.

Once it’s fully dry, it will scrape off nicely.

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Shishimai (lion dance) made with cardboard stamps

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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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