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[Childcare] A Collection of Origami Ideas for Hinamatsuri: Let’s Make Them with Kids!
As the Hinamatsuri season approaches, nursery schools and kindergartens have more opportunities to enjoy making crafts with origami.
In addition to the Emperor and Empress dolls, there are many motifs you can create with origami, such as lanterns, diamond-shaped rice cakes, and peach blossoms.
In this article, we’ll introduce plenty of origami ideas perfect for Hinamatsuri.
We’ve collected projects suited to various ages and stages of development—from simple steps to more intricate ones that require a bit of fine work.
Be sure to use them in your childcare setting and enjoy Hinamatsuri!
[Childcare] Origami ideas for Hinamatsuri. Let’s make them with kids! (1–10)
Self-standing Hina dollsNEW!
Use half-size origami paper to make the doll’s body.
Place the paper with the white side facing up.
First, fold the bottom edge up to the top, offset slightly from the top edge, and fold in half.
Turn the paper over, tuck the left edge into the crease on the right edge, then flatten it in this position.
Fold the bottom corner to the back and the body is complete.
For the head, prepare 15 cm origami.
With the white side facing up, fold the left and right corners inward to make three equal sections.
Next, turn the paper over and fold the top triangular part down toward you.
Then fold it toward you once more around the center of the paper.
Fold the four corners of this section to the back to refine the outline, cut off the unnecessary part at the bottom, draw the face with a pen, and attach it to the body to finish!
Hina dolls you can make just by cutting and pastingNEW!
Attach a light orange origami paper, representing the face, onto a black origami paper representing the hair, offset at a 90-degree angle.
Fold the overlapping corners of the papers to the back to complete the hina doll’s face.
Next, on the lower half of the origami, paste a washi-patterned origami cut to 1/2 size to represent the kimono.
Cut the same patterned origami into 1/4 to make two squares, layer them with red origami slightly offset, and paste them together.
Attach these to both lower corners beneath the face origami to finish.
Draw the face with a pen to complete it.
A fan made from a single sheet of origami paperNEW!
In this idea, the step of making creases is important.
First, fold the origami in half, then use that crease to make finer creases.
Next, cut the origami with scissors at the designated sections.
Add more creases to the remaining part and shape it into a fan.
The key point is to connect the corners of the creases and make diagonal folds.
By folding diagonally, the square origami will ultimately transform into a fan shape.
The folded-back white part will be the handle.
Let’s proceed carefully, step by step.
[Age 5] Hinamatsuri with Folding Fans SpreadNEW!
https://www.tiktok.com/@levwell_hoikushi/video/7600263943797460244Accordion-fold three 15 cm sheets of origami paper, stack them, and stick them together with double-sided tape.
Then, while still folded, staple about 5 cm up from the bottom.
Open the top and bottom to complete the fan spread.
Next, we’ll make the Ohinasama and Odairisama dolls.
Cut a circular base from construction paper, attach washi-patterned origami to the lower half, and draw the hair and face on the upper half to finish.
Attach these to the fan spread, and your Hinamatsuri craft is complete.
Display it on the wall and enjoy!
Hina dolls you can make in 3 minutesNEW!
Fold the top and bottom corners of the origami together into a triangle, crease well, then unfold.
Next, fold the two left edges in to meet the crease.
Rotate the paper so the folded part is at the bottom, and fold it in half by bringing the bottom corner up to meet the top corner.
Turn the paper over, and fold one layer of the top corner down to the bottom edge.
Fold the crease that forms the base of the triangle downward by about 5 mm, then tuck a little of the opposite triangle’s corner to the back.
This part will be the face.
Fold in the protruding sections on the left and right to match the shape of the lower triangle, and make the upper triangle a stepped fold.
Finally, fold the two bottom corners, and you’re done.
Plum blossom made from a single sheet of origami paperNEW!
Up to a certain point, the steps are the same as for the “dama-shibune” boat: fold the left and right edges, then the top and bottom edges, aligning them with the center of the paper in order.
Next, open the folded top and bottom sections into a boat shape, then squash the corners at both ends of the boat into squares.
After that, make cuts at the centers of the edges on the left, right, top, and bottom, and, while tucking in the corners of the squashed square sections, shape them into petals.
Fold the outermost corners last to create the rounded look of the petals.
If you draw the flower’s center with a gold or white pen, it will look even more like a plum blossom.
Easy Hina Dolls with Just Four FoldsNEW!
https://www.tiktok.com/@sachimama_asobi/video/7335656376703700225First, fold the bottom edge of the origami paper upward.
Make sure the folded section and the remaining white section are the same width.
Fold the right edge to the left in the same way.
The folded part is the kimono, and the remaining white part is the face.
Rotate the paper so the face is at the top, then fold the top and bottom corners backward into triangles to finish the Hina doll! Use pink origami to make the Empress (Ohinasama) and blue origami to make the Emperor (Odairisama).
Draw the face with a pen to complete it.