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[Today's Craft] Fun craft ideas recommended today that are useful for childcare!

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Graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Faculty of Music (now: Department of Music Culture and Education, Early Childhood Music Education major). In elementary school, my homeroom teacher was Jun Kusaba, a game researcher. After graduating from university, I worked as a kindergarten teacher for 10 years and as an after-school childcare instructor for 7 years, then took a position as a music teacher at an international school in Singapore. In addition to music education, I engaged in activities that introduced Japanese culture, traditional games, and recreational activities, working with many children. Later, through freelance writing, planning, and editing at Shogakukan, I met many delightful adults and experienced the joy of communicating and sharing. Drawing on the perspective cultivated in the field of education and my experience as an editor, I provide practical information with an emphasis on both input and output, mainly in areas related to music and children. My hobbies include instruments, singing, handicrafts, toys, drawing, traditional games, the outdoors, and books. My special skill is spinning-top tricks.

Many teachers may be looking to incorporate fresh ideas into their early childhood craft activities.

Here, we share craft ideas that children can engage with, across a variety of themes!

You’ll find many types, including wall displays, origami, and crafts tailored to seasons and events.

We introduce everything from classic projects to ones featuring popular characters.

We update daily, so you’ll constantly discover new ideas.

Be sure to bookmark this page and find fun crafts each day that suit your children’s activities!

[Today's Craft] Fun craft ideas recommended today that are useful for childcare! (21–30)

Koinobori craft

[By Age] 5 Types of Koinobori Crafts 🎏 Fun for Infants to Preschoolers! [Nursery School/Kindergarten]

Koinobori craft

Let’s make handmade koinobori (carp streamers) for Children’s Day on May 5! For children who can’t yet hold pens or crayons well, we recommend dipping their fingers in paint to make stamped patterns, or painting their palms to create handprints.

As they become more dexterous, try activities like torn-paper collages, wet-on-wet bleeding art, or origami.

Attach the koinobori you’ve made to a disposable chopstick, and you’ll have a mini koinobori you can wave like a flag and make it ‘swim’!

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Steaming Hot Roasted Sweet Potatoes Made with Chigiri-e (Torn-Paper Collage)

[Feeling Autumn♪] Make it with torn-paper art! Fluffy Roasted Sweet Potatoes 🍠 #preschoolcrafts #nurseryteacher #earlychildhoodideas #traineenurseryteacher #teacherlife #origami #origamicraft #tornpaperart #bulletinboardcraft #Octobercraft #roastedsweetpotato

Steaming Hot Roasted Sweet Potatoes Made with Chigiri-e (Torn-Paper Collage)

Here’s an idea for making a popular baked sweet potato craft using torn paper.

As a prep step, take a white sheet of construction paper and glue an oval made of purple construction paper on the top half and newspaper on the bottom half, shaped to resemble a baked sweet potato.

Then have the children tear colored paper and glue it on top.

For the potato part, they’ll tear and paste purple origami paper; for the wrapping, they’ll tear and paste newspaper.

Tearing paper creates a texture you can’t achieve with scissors, resulting in a wonderfully expressive baked sweet potato—give it a try!

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Acorn Cake

[Crafts for Toddlers] Perfect for Autumn! Let’s Make an Acorn Cake with the Acorns You Collected♪

Acorn Cake

Crafting with acorns sounds wonderful.

Picking up acorns in the park feels like a treasure hunt for kids and makes them excited.

The idea of making a cake base from a milk carton and topping it with the acorns they found is really fun.

I can’t wait to see what lovely cakes the children create with their free imagination.

The key is to prep the acorns beforehand; that way, you can enjoy it safely.

If they make it together with their parents or guardians, it’s sure to become a great memory.

Try lots of different autumn crafts!

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Summer camp

[Kindergarten/Daycare] With open-and-close interactive features! August Summer Camp Painting and Craft Project

Summer camp

This is a craft project with a camping theme.

First, paint patterns with paint on construction paper, fold it into a triangle to make a tent that can open and close.

Attach it to the center of a sheet of construction paper, then create and arrange trees, flowers, and a campfire made from tissue paper around it, gluing them in place.

Finally, make a child out of construction paper and stick them inside the tent, and it’s complete! When you open the tent, you can see a child enjoying camping—such a fun craft.

You can draw the child directly on the tent, or it might be interesting to add a pop-up mechanism that makes the child spring out when opened.

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Totoro taking a walk among the autumn leaves

[Kindergarten/Daycare] October: A walk among the autumn leaves — Totoro-themed painting and crafts

Totoro taking a walk among the autumn leaves

This is an art project featuring Totoro, a character beloved by children.

Cut out tree parts from drawing paper and glue them together.

Cut various origami papers into strips, glue the ends together to make teardrop shapes, and attach them to the tree as leaves.

Fold Totoro from a single sheet of origami and just draw the face.

Since it only takes one sheet, be sure to have the kids try making Totoro too.

Finally, glue the tree and Totoro onto a backing sheet, and you’ll have Totoro walking among the autumn leaves! Because there are quite a few steps, we recommend doing the tree and Totoro on separate days.

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In conclusion

How was it? Feel free to adapt the activities to suit the children’s ages and make use of them in your daily childcare! Since it’s updated every day, you can always find fresh ideas.

If something catches your eye, be sure to make it together with the children and enjoy a fun time.