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Spring has arrived, and it’s the season when cherry blossoms bloom.
How about enjoying some cherry-blossom-themed crafts with the children?
Here, we’ve put together ideas for cherry blossom crafts that are great for early childhood education.
There are plenty of ideas using a variety of materials, so try choosing ones that suit the children’s ages.
As you soak up the hanami mood and create colorful cherry blossom pieces, you might be surprised by the children’s unexpected creativity.
Enjoy the arrival of spring with the children—hands busy and hearts excited.
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[Childcare] Recommended for nurseries and kindergartens! Cherry blossom craft ideas (1–10)
Cute cherry blossom origami on the wall as wellNEW!
Here’s an idea for making a cherry blossom by combining petal parts.
Use one strip of origami paper measuring 15 cm by 1 cm to make a single petal.
First, leaving 3 cm at each end, accordion-fold the paper at 1.5 cm intervals.
Once folded, glue both ends so that the mountain-folded sections face inward.
With one petal complete, make four more and attach them together to form a cherry blossom.
Use pink origami paper and place the colored side on the inside when making it.
Newspaper stamp fun! How to make cherry blossoms
Once you roll up newspaper into a ball, dip it in paint and dab away! That alone creates a cherry blossom craft perfect for spring.
After stamping on cherry-colored construction paper, cut it out to resemble the blossoms on a cherry tree.
Combine it with a trunk made from brown construction paper and attach everything to the base to finish.
For the base, prepare construction paper in sky blue to suggest the sky and green to suggest a spring field.
By adding green only to the lower part of the blue paper, you can represent a cherry tree blooming on a hill.
Besides deep pink, I think using white or yellow paint will also look beautiful.
Let’s draw cherry blossoms using only a straw!
Make five evenly spaced cuts on one side of a straw, then spread that section out into a flower shape.
After that, just dip it in pink paint and stamp it to create a cherry blossom tree.
Beforehand, stick a trunk made from construction paper onto the backing sheet, and have the children stamp over it.
You can stamp to clearly show the flower shape, or layer the stamps to express a tree in full bloom.
After pressing the stamp onto the backing sheet, move the handle in a circular motion as it is.
That will create a clean flower shape!
Cherry blossom wreath made of paper
Delicate and beautiful! Here’s how to make a cherry blossom wreath out of paper.
You’ll need: cardboard or thick paper, paper twine, glue, scissors, copy paper or origami paper, a yellow pen, ribbon, craft adhesive, a compass, and a utility knife.
First, cut the cardboard into a circle, cut out the center to make the base, then unravel the paper twine and weave it around the cut-out base.
Next, cut the copy paper or origami paper, color it, and fold it.
Finally, assemble the parts to create cherry blossoms and attach them to the base to finish!
Fun for parents and kids! Origami cherry blossoms
Let’s make cherry blossom petals with origami.
Prepare one sheet of origami paper cut into a 3 cm-wide strip, then accordion-fold it into five equal sections.
Fold the edge of the tip of the accordion-folded strip into a triangle, draw a diagonal line and a curved line at the corner, and cut along the lines through all layers with scissors.
Crease as you go and open each layer to form individual petals.
Finally, glue the petals together, shaping them to add dimension, and you’re done.
They’re great for decorating walls for graduation or entrance ceremonies.
Also great for walls! Sakura paper cutouts
When people think of spring in Japan, many imagine cherry blossoms.
With that in mind, here’s an idea for a cherry blossom wall decoration.
Fold creases into origami paper and cut it with scissors to make the pieces.
It would be perfect for entrance or graduation ceremonies.
It’s also lovely to add a message and give it as a gift.
When making it, be careful that your fold lines are straight and that the angle of your cuts is correct.
Changing the cutting angle will alter the shape of the petals, so take care.
That said, you can also intentionally vary the angles to add your own creative touch.
Also for Hinamatsuri! Cherry Blossom Papercut
Let’s cut origami paper and make lots of cherry blossoms! Fold the origami into a triangle twice, then open it once.
With the widest angle at the top, crease it in half from the top.
Fold both ends toward the far edge to form a shape like a triangle with three spiky points at the top.
Next, cut it into the shape of a single cherry blossom petal and unfold—done! If you want a papercut-style design, use the same folding method, but while cutting the petal shape, also cut out the center.
When you unfold it, each petal will look slightly hollowed out.
Make them in various colors and sizes, and decorate with plenty of them!
