For Seniors: Come, Spring! Recommended March Craft Ideas for Daycare Services

Spring wildflowers

[Spring] How to Make Spring Flowers and Plants [Wall Decorations]

Let’s create a spring-themed floral mural to bring a touch of spring to your room.

You can easily make it using colored paper sold at 100-yen shops.

Since the sheets are large as-is, cut them into quarter size, and even into quarters again if needed.

For clovers, fold the paper into eighths, draw the lines, and cut along them to finish.

For five-petal flowers like cherry blossoms or pansies, you can fold at about two-thirds of the edge to get a nice shape.

Alternatively, make a six-petal flower first, then cut a slit and overlap the petals to turn it into a five-petal flower for a more three-dimensional look.

Finally, use a large sheet of colored construction paper as the base and attach the flowers and leaves you’ve made to complete your mural.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Cherry Blossoms in the Moonlit Night

[Craft Idea] Cherry Blossoms on a Moonlit Night (April Wall Decoration) (Senior Recreation, Day Service, Occupational Therapy OT, Childcare) (Origami, 3D, DIY, Group Craft Activity) (Cherry Blossom Buds)

Cherry blossoms at night have a different kind of beauty from those seen during the day, don’t they? In daylight, the blossoms look delicately charming with their cute pink petals.

But under moonlight or illumination, they give off a more mature atmosphere.

Here’s a perfect wall decoration idea featuring night-time cherry blossoms for seniors who love yozakura.

Choose darker construction paper for the background of the cherry trees and blossoms, and add a moon to create a night-sakura scene.

As they make the blossoms, seniors will likely feel the arrival of spring.

Looking at the finished piece, they may appreciate the beauty of night cherry blossoms and even reminisce about their past cherry blossom memories.

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Nakajima Junko

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Hanging decoration of peach blossoms

[Origami] Hanging Peach Blossom Decoration – Hinamatsuri

Here’s an idea for a hanging decoration that showcases the beautiful shades of peach blossoms.

Why not make items to decorate for Hinamatsuri or to brighten the walls and doors of senior care facilities? Fold pink origami or tissue paper and make small cuts with scissors to create petal shapes.

Once you’ve made each part in the same size, attach them to a string for the hanging decoration.

Finally, add flower details with round stickers, and your peach blossom hanging decoration is complete.

It’s also recommended to use floral-patterned paper or display cherry blossoms together.

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Cherry Blossoms and Rapeseed Flowers

[For senior care facilities] Easy cherry blossoms and rapeseed flower wall decoration

Spring is the season when flowers of many colors bloom in profusion; not only cherry blossoms but also rapeseed flowers brighten the landscape.

This is a three-dimensional decoration that depicts a spring scene and the uplifting feeling of rapeseed blossoms blooming around cherry trees.

The key is to make each part with tissue paper, carefully adding wrinkles and shaping them like flowers to create a soft, three-dimensional look.

A sturdy cherry tree with soft pink blossoms, arranged with yellow rapeseed flowers around it, completes the piece.

It might also be nice to emphasize spring by adding decorations like fallen petals and butterflies, not just flowers in bloom.

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cherry blossom arch window

[Origami] Kirigami Flowers (25): Sakura Arch Window 🌸 Cherry Blossom Window

These days, many homes are being built with smaller windows for security reasons.

From a safety perspective, that’s understandable to an extent.

How about your home? If you have a plain, empty wall, why not create a “cherry blossom arch window” that looks like a real window there? Imagine stained glass in a church, but made with colored paper.

Use light blue for the window to evoke the color of the sky, and decorate each pane with cherry blossoms in your own style.

Origami works, paper cutouts work—there’s no one right way.

A variety of cherry blossoms would be lovely.

Sakura wall decoration

Small and cute! How to make a cherry blossom wall decoration (wall decor) – DIY How to Make Paper Cherry Blossom Wall Decoration

When it comes to cherry blossoms, their small size is part of their charm, evoking both cuteness and a sense of fleeting beauty.

This wall decoration is made by combining pieces of paper to create the look of tiny cherry blossoms lined up together.

The flowers are crafted with a simple method of punching them out using a craft punch, and by paying attention to creasing, you can give them a three-dimensional feel.

After that, decorate the cherry blossoms with beads, line them up on a ribbon and attach them, then hang them so they dangle from a rod to finish.

Besides pink cherry blossoms, it’s also recommended to arrange flowers in various colors for a colorful look.

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Curtain of cherry blossoms

Easy Tissue Paper Sakura Curtain – Perfect for Graduation/Preschool Graduation, Wall Decorations, Parties, Weddings, Crafts, and Senior Activities

Let’s try making a cherry blossom curtain using tissue paper.

Because tissue paper is soft and slightly translucent, it’s perfect for expressing the delicate petals of cherry blossoms.

You can accordion-fold the tissue paper to create blossoms, or cut it into petal shapes and hang them.

When attaching string to the petals, use a needle threaded with the string to link the petals together.

You can hang the curtain in the facility’s windows, and older adults can also take theirs home to decorate their own spaces.

When the wind blows and the tissue-paper petals sway, it looks just like real cherry blossoms fluttering in the air.

You can adapt this idea for wall decorations as well, so give it a try!

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