Enjoy with everyday materials! Fun ideas for making oden

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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steaming hot oden

When winter comes, you can’t help but crave warm oden, right? What kind of pot should we simmer it in? How about making an oden pot yourself? First, fill a sheet of drawing paper with any colors, pictures, or patterns you like.

Cut that paper into the shape of a pot and paste it onto a backing sheet.

Then paste colored paper for the inside of the pot as well.

Once that’s on, choose your favorite items from the pre-made oden ingredients and stick them on.

It’s handy to put double-sided tape on the back beforehand.

And there you have it—oden complete with your favorite ingredients!

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Oden with assorted ingredients

How about making delicious winter oden by having the children craft their favorite ingredients from origami and put them into a pot? Prepare a large pot made from colored construction paper, and then create oden ingredients out of origami—like daikon radish, konnyaku, chikuwa, thick fried tofu, and octopus.

Make the octopus legs with red origami and use white round stickers to represent the suckers; for the konnyaku, fold gray origami into a triangle and add little black speckles.

To show the pot’s cozy warmth, use cotton to create soft, fluffy steam for a gentle finishing touch.

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Three-dimensional oden

Oden is a dish you start craving when winter comes.

When oden appears at convenience stores, it really makes you feel that winter has arrived, doesn’t it? So here are some ideas for making oden crafts.

For example: chikuwa made by bleeding brown paint into washi paper and rolling it in bubble wrap; konnyaku made by soaking paint into a sponge; and goboten made by rolling two sheets of construction paper of different colors and stacking them.

There are lots of fun ideas! While valuing the ideas that children come up with, try making the oden you’d like to eat and plating it in a small bowl.

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Oden made with UV resin

[UV Resin] I made a Shizuoka oden kitty 🐱🍢 The pot is a kitty too! 🐱🩷 #miniature #handmade #resin #cat #ShizuokaOden #shorts

Shizuoka oden is known for its dark broth and black hanpen, and it looks absolutely delicious.

This time, we’re going to make a miniature version of Shizuoka oden using UV resin.

First, roll the clay into small balls and start creating the oden ingredients.

The key to making the hollow in chikuwa is to wrap the clay around a thin object.

Since Shizuoka oden’s broth is made with dark soy sauce, be sure to make the broth a deep color as well.

When making the oden ingredients, kids might come up with new ingredient ideas, too.

Once the Shizuoka oden is finished, talking about its characteristics could help deepen their understanding of oden even more.

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Three-dimensional oden made with a variety of materials

Let's play shop! Oden stand

Make oden with everyday items! Here’s how.

You’ll need a milk carton, an envelope, newspaper, string, felt, paper plates, disposable chopsticks, scissors, and glue.

First, cut the milk carton into long narrow pieces and triangular pieces.

Fold the long narrow pieces into triangles, cover them with the triangular piece, and you’ve made konnyaku.

For a mochi pouch, crumple an envelope, stuff it with newspaper, and tie it with string.

To make kombu, tie a strip of felt into a knot.

Finally, arrange everything on a paper plate, and you’re done!

Miniature Oden

[Fake Food] It’s cold, so let’s make oden 🍢 [Miniature]

Miniature oden is so tiny and delightful that just looking at it can make you excited.

This time, we’ll show you how to make miniature oden.

Prepare clay, resin, paints, and glue.

Roll and flatten small pieces of clay to create items like konnyaku, daikon radish, and hanpen.

For the konnyaku, cut shallow slits vertically and horizontally; for chikuwa-bu, wrap clay around a toothpick, let it dry, then slice it.

Use resin to make the pot, tint glue to create the broth, and once you’ve added shine to the ingredients, combine them with the soup in the pot to finish.

Kneading tiny bits of clay and painting them are steps that even young children will likely enjoy.

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