For Seniors: Come, Spring! Recommended March Craft Ideas for Daycare Services
In this article, we introduce March craft ideas recommended for seniors!
When it comes to March events, there are many with a cute image, like Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day) and White Day.
Using lots of soft colors like pink and white in your crafts can put you in a gentle mood.
It’s the season when spring flowers begin to bloom, so let’s create a bright, festive atmosphere through crafting!
There are plenty of ideas you can use in senior day services and other elder care facilities, so please use them as a reference when making crafts together.
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[For Seniors] Come, Spring! Recommended March Craft Ideas for Day Service (141–150)
Cactus and flowers
A cactus characterized by prickly spines.
Cacti also bloom in a variety of colors, such as red, yellow, and white.
It varies by species, but they mainly flower from early spring to around summer.
Some older adults may also be growing cacti at home.
Let’s make a potted, flowering cactus out of origami that you can display at home.
Fold along the creases you’ve made to create the pot.
Use accordion folds to add creases, shape, and form the cactus.
Fold a triangle three times, cut off the excess, and make the cactus flower.
Put all the parts together to finish.
Real cacti have flowers in many different colors.
With your origami piece, try making the flowers in whatever colors you like.
Let’s draw cherry blossoms with a straw
Starting around late March, there are regions where cherry blossoms begin to bloom, right? Many older adults may also associate cherry blossoms with spring.
Let’s make an easy cherry blossom craft using straws.
Cut slits into the tip of a straw to divide it into five sections.
The five split tips will look like cherry blossom petals.
Apply pink paint to the five-sectioned tip.
If you dab the straw onto a backing sheet, it will look like cherry blossoms are blooming.
If you use colored paper as the backing, it becomes a lovely wall decoration.
Or you could press the straw like a cherry blossom stamp onto a postcard to create your own card.
Hina dolls made with jelly cups
These hina dolls made with jelly cups are highly recommended for a Hinamatsuri craft at day service centers.
To make them, stuff a jelly cup with tissue paper to form the body, then add a face and crown made from construction paper and decorate with origami to resemble a kimono.
The overall look changes dramatically depending on the tissue paper colors and origami patterns, so have fun customizing your own version.
Placing the dolls on a handmade stand will make them look even more festive, so give it a try if you have the time!
[For Seniors] Spring, Come! Recommended March Craft Ideas for Day Service (151–160)
Tulip arrangement
Fresh flowers are lovely, but handmade ones have their own charm and are wonderful too.
This time, we’re making a parallel arrangement of tulips using origami.
Please prepare origami paper, bamboo skewers, scissors, tape or glue, and wood glue while watching the video.
Once you get the hang of it, you can make plenty! They’re perfect for interior decor, and by crafting tulips in various colors, you can enjoy a touch of spring indoors.
They’re also great for recreational activities.
Have fun making them!
Tulip bouquet
Tulips are an essential flower of spring, and landscapes where they bloom beautifully in a variety of colors evoke the excitement of warmer days.
This craft recreates tulip flowers using felt and bundles them together like a bouquet.
Cut felt into shapes that look like open petals, place a strip of felt—cut thin and rolled tightly—at the center, then close the petals around it to form the whole tulip.
Next, arrange the flowers on a Styrofoam ball, attach leaf pieces, and fill in any gaps.
Once everything is snugly packed, your bouquet is complete.
Tulip wreath
Tulips are one of the flowers that color the spring season, and their rich variety of hues conveys the excitement of spring.
This is a wreath that captures that springtime joy by arranging colorful tulips on a circular base.
It’s recommended to make the wreath base in green to evoke leaves; create triangular pieces and insert adjacent pieces into the gaps to form a circle.
Then just add tulips and other decorations to the base to finish.
To make the tulips really stand out, it’s important to use folds to give them a three-dimensional look.
Tulip field and butterflies
Tulips are one of the flowers that represent spring.
Many older adults probably think of tulips when they think of spring flowers.
So let’s make lots of origami tulips and decorate an entire wall.
Cut two sheets of origami paper roughly in half, then fold each piece in half again.
Cut them into petal shapes and glue them together.
Tulips come in many colors, so try making them in the colors your seniors prefer.
Attach the stems and leaves you’ve made to the tulip flowers to complete them.
If you also make butterflies out of origami and add them, it will enhance the spring atmosphere.
It’s a wall decoration that seems to convey the warmth of spring.