[For Seniors] Brimming with June’s seasonal charm: A roundup of fun craft ideas

Rainy season plastic shrink art

Rainy day motif ☔️ #shorts #rain #rainyseason #shrinkplastic #resin #handmade

Let’s make a rainy-season inspired craft using shrink plastic! Draw hydrangeas, frogs, raindrops, and other rainy-season motifs on the plastic sheet with colored pencils, then cut around the drawings.

Coat each piece with resin and cure it under a UV light.

Place small, finely cut and heated pieces of shrink plastic onto the hydrangea section, then cure again.

Arrange all the parts in your preferred layout, layer on more resin, and cure to finish.

You’ll have a cool, transparent-looking craft! It also makes a great keychain or bag charm.

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Hydrangea ball

How to Make a Floating Flower Ball [Hanging Flower Ball]: Starfish and Hydrangeas ★ Summer

A festive hydrangea ball made by inserting fabric into a round Styrofoam base! Prepare various colors and patterns of fabric and cut them into 5 cm squares.

Cut green felt to make leaf pieces as well.

Once you place them on the Styrofoam ball, just poke the center with a bamboo skewer to tuck the fabric in! If you embed a ribbon with glue at the top of the ball, you’ll have a cute hydrangea ball that can be hung as a decoration.

Just choosing the fabric colors is enough to get you excited!

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firefly

[Craft Idea] Fireflies – Firefly crafts (June, summer) (with template) (wall decoration) (recreation for seniors) (childcare/educational activity) (hang with thread) (moving) (origami) (insects) (creative) (OT/occupational therapy)

Fireflies are famous as a symbol of summer.

In the past, people enjoyed “hotaru-gari,” or firefly viewing, but due to environmental changes their numbers have declined in recent years, and it has become rare to see them.

How about recreating that firefly viewing as a wall decoration and sharing your memories together? It involves fine handwork—folding, cutting, and pasting origami—which stimulates the brain and can help keep it active, offering a brain-training effect.

If you blow air with a circulator, it will look as if the fireflies are flying through the night sky.

Give it a try!

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paper-cutting teru teru bozu

Teru teru bozu ☔️

The connected teru teru bozu siblings are so cute! Here are some ideas for making teru teru bozu with kirigami (papercutting).

When you think of teru teru bozu, you often picture three-dimensional decorations, right? This time, let’s make kirigami teru teru bozu that you complete by cutting paper.

You’ll need white origami or paper, a pencil, scissors, glue, and a hole punch.

When drawing your template, be careful not to make the design too detailed, or it will be difficult to cut.

You’ll end up with adorable teru teru bozu that look great anywhere!

Balloon decorations of hydrangeas and snails

[Balloon Craft] Hydrangea and Snail Balloon Decoration 🎈

How about spending some at-home time making a “balloon decoration” themed around hydrangeas and snails for the rainy season? Use colored construction paper to craft pieces inspired by hydrangea blooms in red, blue, purple, and more.

In Japan, snails tend to be brownish, but abroad there are snails with yellow-green shells and vivid patterns.

It could be fun to make snails like those, too.

Also, since it’s hard to stick things directly onto the smooth surface of a balloon, it’s a good idea to first cover the surface with washi paper or newspaper.