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 (211–220)
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Violets, which you often see in garden beds and parks, are flowers that are at their best in spring.
Let’s beautifully decorate a wall with colorful violet flowers in blue, yellow, white, and more.
Make violet petals using accordion-folded origami, then use construction paper as the stem to attach and build the violet flowers.
You can also create stems and leaves from origami, attach petals, and make side-facing violets.
How about making butterflies or ladybugs as well? Displaying them together with the violets will create wall decorations that evoke an even stronger spring atmosphere.
Feeling the seasons through wall decorations and looking at lovely violets can help brighten the mood of older adults, too.
Dandelion and Ladybug
When you hear “spring,” what comes to mind? I’m sure this motif will fit for some of you among the images you pictured.
Ladybugs and dandelions evoke a scene of sunlight filtering through the trees, don’t they? What you’ll need are origami paper, scissors, pinking shears, a craft knife, bamboo skewers, a pencil, wood glue, glue stick, colored pencils, a ruler, and templates.
Each step is careful and detailed, so it might be a good idea to divide up the tasks and work together! If you make lots of dandelions, it should look quite impressive.
hishi mochi (diamond-shaped layered rice cake)
Hinamatsuri, the March festival celebrating early spring.
For this bright, springlike occasion, some people take out cherished Hina dolls and display them.
Others might decorate with handmade Hina dolls.
Do you have accessories like hishimochi to accompany the dolls? Items that can be placed on the tiered Hina display include bonbori lanterns and hishimochi; this time, let’s try making hishimochi by hand.
It will give the set a more cohesive feel.
Hishimochi’s colors are pink from gardenia, white from the water caltrop, and green from mugwort.
To add dimension, wrap pieces of styrofoam with fabric in those colors, and once you’ve also made a base for the hishimochi, it’s complete.
Swaying Cherry Blossoms
Here’s an idea for a wall decoration that evokes cherry blossom petals swaying in the wind.
Make petals by cutting origami paper into rectangles and forming each piece into a loop.
Combine four to five petals and glue a yellow piece in the center to create a three-dimensional cherry blossom.
If you press the inside of the flower and leaf pieces with a bamboo skewer to add curvature, they’ll gain a soft, rounded 3D look.
Connect the finished blossoms and leaves with thread and attach them to the wall so the design sways when a breeze passes through.
It’s a decoration that’s both visually striking and dynamic, letting you feel the arrival of spring.
Easter egg
Many people probably think, “Easter is in April, right?!” In fact, Easter—one of the most important events in Christianity—doesn’t have a fixed date; it’s defined by the rather tricky rule: “the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the spring equinox.” Because of this, in some years, grand Easter celebrations can take place as early as late March.
Speaking of Easter motifs, there are Easter eggs and the Easter Bunny! If you make simple crafts out of items like toilet paper rolls to decorate your room, you’ll find yourself looking forward to the warmth of spring even more.
white clover
White clover, often seen in spring in parks and gardens, is a plant that evokes gentleness and lightness.
Cut a rectangular sheet of origami paper into small pieces and round them to create petal shapes.
By adding a curve to the tips of the petals, you can achieve a realistic-looking flower.
Use long, thin strips of paper to make the stem, and represent the distinctive leaves of white clover.
Arrange heart-shaped pieces of origami in green gradient tones to create the clover.
Finally, decorate with a ladybug made of origami to finish.
Combining white clover and clover makes for a decoration that conveys the arrival of spring, even from the wall.
Tulip hina
Tulips are one of the essentials of spring, and the way their brightly colored flowers bloom so vigorously conveys the joy of the season.
This craft combines tulip blossoms with Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day) motifs to create a project that feels distinctly springlike.
The base is construction paper cut into a tulip shape; onto this, you add origami clothing and decorations to complete the Hinamatsuri theme.
For the two main figures, make slits and then glue them together to give them a three-dimensional look so they stand out from the rest—that’s the key point.
Finish it off with leaf parts and surrounding tulips to create an overall festive look.
