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Umbrella Craft Ideas by Age Group: Perfect for Rainy-Season Childcare

How about incorporating umbrella crafts at daycare centers and kindergartens during the rainy season? Umbrellas are familiar to children and have a cute shape, so there are many ways to arrange and decorate them.

Here, we’ll introduce umbrella craft ideas by age group.

There are lots of ideas, so please use them as a reference.

The umbrellas children make can also be enjoyed as decorations on walls and other displays.

Make fun umbrellas together with the children and enjoy the rainy season! Because the items the children make are treated as works (artworks), the term used in the text is “制作 (seisaku)” rather than “製作 (seisaku).”

Umbrella Craft Ideas by Age Group: Perfect for Rainy Season Childcare (21–30)

Made with a single sheet of origami paper! Origami umbrella

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Made with a single sheet of origami paper! Origami umbrella

Here’s how to make a flat umbrella from a single sheet of origami paper.

It’s also great as a wall decoration during the rainy season.

Fold it in half horizontally, rotate it, and fold in half horizontally again.

Fold along one of the creases, then cut along the folded line to separate the paper.

Use the larger piece to make the umbrella canopy and the smaller piece to make the handle, then combine them to form the umbrella shape.

The key is to make crisp creases—using your fingernail helps create sharp fold lines.

Try using origami paper in various colors and patterns to decorate with a rainbow of umbrellas.

A Japanese parasol with cherry blossoms made of origami

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A Japanese parasol with cherry blossoms made of origami

A cherry-blossom paper umbrella perfect for spring.

Fold the origami square in half twice to create cross-shaped crease lines.

Next, fold the paper along the cross lines.

Flip it over, fold it in half, then sketch a curved outline on the paper and cut along the line with scissors.

When you open it, it will be a cherry blossom shape; now we’ll form it into an umbrella.

After a quick check, adjust the mountain and valley folds of the petals and remake them.

Match each petal’s mountain fold to a valley fold, and repeat this fold a total of five times.

Using a bamboo skewer, pinch the mountain folds together and define the valley crease lines.

Carefully shape the umbrella portion, make a hole in the center, insert and pass a stick through, then wrap masking tape around the tip to finish.

A cute parasol-like umbrella

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A cute parasol-like umbrella

The method is simple, and let’s make an umbrella that will brighten even a gloomy, rainy day.

For the umbrella part, prepare one sheet of origami paper and form the umbrella shape while creasing as you go.

As you puff up the triangular sections, squash-fold them, then fold in the tip of the triangle.

For the handle, roll the origami paper tightly to make it firm; this will give you a sturdy, reliable handle.

Finally, glue the handle to the umbrella and you’re done.

Using patterned origami paper may make it look even more festive.

An origami umbrella that can open and close!

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An origami umbrella that can open and close!

This is an origami umbrella that opens and closes realistically.

Fold a 15 cm square sheet of origami paper in half twice so it becomes a smaller square, then fold the pocketed part into a triangle.

Fold each of the two short sides along the central crease, then open along the creases and flatten.

After opening all four sections, tuck the corners inward.

Make the same piece with origami that’s one-quarter the size, and use a long, narrow strip of origami to make the umbrella handle.

Combine the three parts, and you’ll have an umbrella that opens and closes.

Moving models may seem difficult to make, but they’re actually very easy—why not give it a try?

Perfect for decorations! How to fold an umbrella

A small umbrella decoration perfect for the rainy season.

While many origami umbrellas are made in the open position, this one is folded closed.

Enjoy the rainy season with a different folding method.

Cut a sheet of double-sided patterned origami paper into a 10 cm diameter circle and fold it in half.

Fold it so the semicircle is divided into three equal parts, unfold, then cut along the folds to make three separate pieces.

Using a round, cylindrical item like a chopstick, shape each piece into a curved arch and form a cone, then adjust it so it resembles a heart shape.

Make the handle with wire, combine it with the umbrella pieces, and you’re done.

[Age 3] 3D Umbrella with Sponge Stamps

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Here’s an idea for making an umbrella using a paper plate and pipe cleaners.

First, attach a sponge to a chopstick to make a stamp.

Next, cut a paper plate in half and use the paint-covered stamp to add color.

Prepare a few paint colors and finish it in your favorite colors and patterns.

Finally, glue a pipe cleaner to the inside of the paper plate as a handle, then roll the plate into a cone shape so it looks like an umbrella, and you’re done! If you curl the end of the pipe cleaner that sticks out from the top of the umbrella, you can hang it with thread as a decoration.

[Age 4] Construction paper hanging decoration

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Here’s an idea for a hanging umbrella decoration made with construction paper and chenille stems (pipe cleaners).

Prepare six circles cut from construction paper and fold each one in half twice.

Stack and glue them together.

Attach a chenille stem as the handle, then open up the paper and shape it into an umbrella.

Make clouds and raindrops from construction paper and hang them with string along with the umbrella.

You can use a single color for the umbrella, but it’s also cute to prepare several colors of paper for a colorful finish.

It’s very easy, so give it a try!