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

Yarn Winding Hina Dolls

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Let’s try making hina dolls by winding yarn around cardboard.

This craft also seems suitable for hand and fingertip training for older adults.

Take cardboard cut into the shape of a hina doll and wind yarn around it from top to bottom.

It will end up looking like the layered robes (junihitoe) that hina dolls wear.

Because it’s yarn, the more you wind, the more plump and three-dimensional it becomes, enhancing the doll’s cuteness.

Attach yarn for the hair, draw the face, and it’s complete.

It’s a versatile craft: you can mount it on a backing sheet or use it as a part for hanging decorations.

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Hina Matsuri hanging decorations

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As Hinamatsuri approaches, it seems many senior and welfare facilities also decorate their interiors.

Rooms are likely wrapped in pastel colors centered on pink and other festive hues.

Here, we introduce a craft that further enhances the Hinamatsuri atmosphere: a hanging ornament made with felt and chirimen crepe fabric.

While hanging ornaments are often displayed on walls or windows, this one will be suspended within an A3-size photo frame.

Therefore, the individual pieces are small.

Creating tiny peach blossoms, battledores, and hishi-mochi out of felt and chirimen is sure to captivate the seniors making them.

The adorable finished pieces will likely give them a satisfying sense of accomplishment.

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Cherry blossom mobile

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Here’s a cherry blossom mobile made from recycled materials.

The material we’ll use is toilet paper rolls.

First, flatten a roll so it forms the shape of a cherry blossom petal, then cut it into strips about 5 millimeters wide.

Next, attach tissue paper to the petal-shaped frames made from the toilet paper roll.

Trim the excess tissue paper around the frame to create clean, pretty petals.

Combine five petals to make a cherry blossom, or simply attach strings to individual petals and hang them to finish.

Through this craft activity, even older adults can feel the arrival of spring.

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Creating cute and chic Hina dolls for adults

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Here’s a simple way to make cute Hina dolls.

First, stick fabric tape in the center of a piece of felt, fold 3 cm from one edge, and make a 2 cm slit in the middle.

Use the slit to neatly shape the collar with a little twist, then fold the felt in half and secure it with double-sided tape.

Next, glue on a bead about 1 cm in diameter to represent the head.

After making two figures, craft small accessories from origami, thread them through a large eye bead, and attach them to the dolls to finish.

By playing with colors and accessories, you can create charming, unique Hina dolls.

The process itself is fun, so it’s highly recommended!

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The Hina Doll and the Imperial Consort

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How about a Hinamatsuri calendar that’s sure to make you smile every time you see it? This is a delightful idea you can easily try, since it can be made with construction paper and origami.

First, create the base by attaching a March calendar to construction paper in your favorite color.

Then, fold origami dolls of the Empress and Emperor, and glue them onto the base along with pink, white, and light green origami to evoke the look of hishi-mochi.

If you also make and decorate with traditional lanterns and plum blossoms, you’ll have a calendar that brightens up any room just by displaying it.

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tissue paper dandelion

By using tissue paper for the dandelion’s flower, you can create a soft impression and add a three-dimensional effect.

Make it and display it in your room to invite the spring breeze—everyone is sure to feel brighter.

First, paste a calendar on the lower half of the base construction paper.

Then design the top with dandelions and butterflies.

Make the dandelion leaves from construction paper and the butterflies from origami paper.

If you craft the butterflies in three dimensions as well, you can depict a scene of butterflies gracefully dancing over a spring meadow.

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Three-dimensional Hina dolls made with paper cores

This is a Hinamatsuri calendar you can make with familiar materials.

Incorporating Hinamatsuri—a holiday well-known to many older adults—into a craft project can spark fond memories and create a wonderful opportunity for communication with those around them.

Paste a March calendar onto colored construction paper and decorate it with cherry blossoms cut from origami paper.

Create the main characters—the empress (Ohinasama) and the emperor (Odairisama)—by attaching washi-patterned chiyogami and origami parts to toilet paper rolls.

Adding tissue paper at their feet gives a festive touch.

It’s an idea that will likely lift your spirits every time you look at the calendar.

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