[Childcare] Fun Craft Ideas for Hinamatsuri (Girls' Day)

Hina dolls in a wash painting style

[Blot Painting] Super Easy and Cute! Hina Matsuri Craft (For 2–3-Year-Olds)

How about making Hina dolls using a coffee filter bleeding art activity? As prep, the teacher should make the Emperor and Empress faces out of construction paper or origami.

Have the children draw on two coffee filters with water-based markers.

If you separate the markers into warm and cool color sets, you’ll get colors that suit the Emperor and Empress.

After they enjoy drawing, wet the coffee filters with a mist spray or by floating them on water in a tray to let the colors bleed.

Once they’re dry, attach the faces and you’re done! It’ll be fun to see the children’s expressions as the colors spread.

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Sakura Mochi Made of Paper

Make it with paper! Sakura-mochi: a cherry blossom rice cake made from paper.

A springlike and very appetizing craft: making sakuramochi out of paper.

Crumple up some tissue paper, wrap it with pink crepe paper, and secure it with clear tape to make the mochi portion.

Next, use zigzag scissors to cut green construction paper into a leaf shape, then accordion-fold it to create veins.

Finally, attach double-sided tape or a rolled piece of clear tape to the leaf and wrap it around the pink mochi to finish! Since the mochi is just wrapped up, even children who aren’t yet skilled with tools can enjoy it while feeling like they’re making sweets.

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Hinamatsuri garland

Here’s a handmade garland idea to instantly brighten up your wall for Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day).

Garlands originally referred to long, net-like decorations made from flowers, leaves, and other plants hung on windows or walls, but the concept has since been adapted for interior decor beyond just greenery.

How about crafting hina dolls from felt, or cutting out letters and peach blossoms—symbols of Hinamatsuri—from colored paper to decorate? If you’re displaying it to celebrate your child’s Girls’ Day, adding your child’s name would make it even more special.

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Perler beads

Why not make and display some cute, pixel-art-style Hina dolls? These Hina dolls are made with Perler beads that kids love.

Perler beads are a toy where you arrange beads freely to create a design, then press an iron on top to melt and fuse them together.

Some of you might remember them nostalgically.

You can make the Hina dolls, the Emperor and Empress, the three court ladies, as well as diamond-shaped rice cakes and paper lanterns with Perler beads, and they’ll look adorable strung together as a garland or hanging decoration.

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Cherry blossom tree made with plastic bags

Blow into it and make it! Let me show you how to create a cherry blossom tree using a plastic bag.

You’ll need construction paper, a plastic bag, paint, a cherry tree shape made from construction paper, and glue or double-sided tape.

First, tie the bottom of the plastic bag tightly, turn it inside out, then blow into it and tie it off.

Dab paint onto the plastic bag, which will be puffed up like a balloon, and stamp it onto the paper to make big cherry blossom petals! Attach the cherry tree cutout made from construction paper, and you’re done!

Three-color dango made with origami

Speaking of spring, cherry-blossom viewing comes to mind.

Here’s a perfect spring craft: how to make three-color dango with origami.

You’ll need three colors of origami paper for the dango and some bamboo skewers.

First, fold a balloon using the basic balloon base in origami.

Once you’ve made all three colors, simply skewer them one by one to finish.

You can enjoy the origami process itself, and then use what you’ve made for pretend play.

Taking a spring walk with the dango you made together with the kids could be fun, too.

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Cherry blossoms made with newspaper stamps

Let’s make use of familiar materials! I’ll show you an idea for creating cherry blossoms using a newspaper stamp.

You’ll need drawing paper, crayons, newspaper, paint, and a paper plate.

First, use crayons to draw the cherry tree trunk on the drawing paper.

Next, put some paint on the paper plate.

A single color looks nice, but I recommend using two colors so you can enjoy the way they blend.

Finally, pick up some paint with a crumpled piece of newspaper and dab it onto the paper—stamp, stamp—and you’ll have a tree full of cherry blossoms!