Enjoy with everyday materials! Fun ideas for making oden

Felt oden

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When winter comes, you crave warm foods, don’t you? So this time, let’s make oden out of felt fabric.

Soft felt is perfect for kids’ pretend play, too.

Cut and sew the felt to match your favorite ingredients—daikon radish, satsuma-age, konnyaku, chikuwa, mochi pouches, stuffed cabbage rolls, and more.

Add stuffing at the end to give them dimension, and they’ll look just like the real thing.

For the pot, prepare felt, fusible interfacing, thick cardstock, and quilt batting.

Make the pot’s base with the cardstock, then add the core layers—the key is to build the sturdy parts well.

Kids are sure to have a blast playing pretend cooking with the finished set.

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Making oden using scrap materials

[For 1- and 2-year-olds] Warm up with piping-hot oden!

Let us introduce how to make delicious oden (as a craft).

Prepare origami paper, construction paper, paint, a sponge, and cardboard.

Paint the construction paper and start making chikuwa.

Cream-colored construction paper is recommended for chikuwa.

For hanpen, cut a sponge to shape.

For konnyaku, put cotton inside origami paper to give it a three-dimensional look.

Using suzuran tape to represent the steam from the oden—and blowing air on it to show the steam’s movement—is another key point.

As the children get more excited, starting an “oden shop” play activity will make it even more fun.

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Oden made with yarn

Winter Oden Shop Pretend Play 🍢 – Handmade Yarn Toys [Nursery/Kindergarten]

Make it with yarn and felt! Here’s how to create oden.

What you’ll need: yarn, paper cups, toilet paper rolls, felt, paint, a sponge, double-sided tape, cloth tape, and scissors.

By crafting the ingredients with yarn and felt, you can achieve a cozy, warm look.

Adding paint with a sponge gives it a realistic touch.

When coloring the yarn or felt, the key is to build up the color little by little.

Give it a try!

Oden made with construction paper

Oden Craft: A Preschool Teacher Explains How to Make a Version That Also Works as a Wall Display (For Ages 2 and Up)

We want to decorate the wall! Here’s how to make oden using construction paper.

You’ll need construction paper, scissors, crayons, and glue.

First, cut out the pot, the broth, and the ingredients.

Children in the preschool class might be able to do the cutting themselves.

Once you’re done cutting, glue each piece into the pot.

After you’ve pasted them, add patterns and details with crayons! Finally, you can also add a spoon, chopsticks, or mustard.

Enjoy making your original oden!

Oden made with drawing paper and origami

[Made in February] Oden

How about warming up this cold winter by making oden with origami? Prepare construction paper for the pot and broth, and origami paper for the ingredients.

After cutting the construction paper into the shape of a pot and the broth, start folding eggs and daikon with the origami.

It’s cute to draw patterns or faces on the octopus, konnyaku, and kelp.

Paste the ingredients onto the pot you made with glue, and it’s complete.

This craft helps develop concentration while engaging with seasonal foods.

It’s also fun to ask the children what their favorite oden ingredients are and let them freely create them with origami.

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Let’s make oden toppings!

We’re making oden ingredients that are perfect for the cold winter.

Let’s make this kid-favorite dish together! Wrap a toilet paper roll core with tissue paper and dab on brown paint with a cotton swab to make chikuwa; shape yellow tissue paper into a pouch, stuff it with facial tissue, and twist the opening with a pipe cleaner to make mochi kinchaku; fold origami paper into a triangle and add patterns to make konnyaku.

Using only familiar, simple materials, you can easily create oden ingredients! This activity is perfect for 3-year-olds, so give it a try.

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Piping Hot Oden Production

When the cold winter comes, you start craving oden, don’t you? First, let’s cut out the base pot from construction paper.

For the chikuwa, crumple the paper to create bumps and give it a three-dimensional look.

Use finger stamps to add the chikuwa’s pattern.

For the kombu, accordion-fold it and secure the center to make it look delicious.

Try making eggs, konnyaku, and other various oden ingredients while chatting with your child! Since the ingredients for oden vary by family and region, you’ll end up with your very own original oden pot.

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