[For Seniors] Crafts to Make in March! Recommended Project Ideas
March is full of delightful motifs like peach and cherry blossoms, as well as fun events such as Hinamatsuri (Girls’ Day).
In this article, we’ll introduce craft ideas recommended for seniors to enjoy in March! By mainly using soft colors like pink, white, and pale green for origami and construction paper, you can create bright, cheerful pieces—making both the crafting process and the finished display exciting.
When making origami crafts, adding patterned paper can change the atmosphere and give your work a unique touch! Feel free to use these ideas as references in care facilities such as day service centers.
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[For Seniors] Crafts You’ll Want to Make in March! Recommended Project Ideas (101–110)
Tulips and butterflies
Tulips in full, colorful bloom are one of the quintessential flowers of spring, and they powerfully signal that warmer days have arrived.
This is a three-dimensional decoration inspired by those springtime tulips and the butterflies fluttering around them.
First, prepare four rectangular sheets of paper, fold each in half, then cut and combine the pieces to form the tulip blossoms.
Paying close attention to how you cut the shapes and where you layer them is key to conveying the tulips’ vigor.
Finally, assemble these with stem and leaf parts for the display, add butterfly pieces around them, and you’re done.
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.
Tulips at the mall
Here’s how to make an easy and cute tulip using chenille stems (pipe cleaners).
Prepare two chenille stems in your favorite color for the petals and two green ones for the leaves.
Fold each stem in half, stack the folded points together, twist them, then align the ends with the knot at the top.
Twist the aligned part to secure it—this completes the leaf.
For the flower, twist once at the center while the stems are still aligned, then fold up again and twist to secure.
Round the shapes, and curl the extended ends to form the petals.
Make three identical petal pieces and glue them together to complete the flower.
Attach the flower and leaves to a plastic stick to finish your chenille-stem tulip.
Wrapping it or bundling several together into a bouquet makes it even more decorative.
Hanging ornaments made from felted wool balls
Don’t many Japanese people like cherry blossoms? Perhaps because they’re also a representative flower of Japan, cherry blossoms go well with Japanese-style crafts.
A hanging ornament made from yarn balls decorated with cherry blossoms also has a traditional Japanese feel.
Use a balled-up piece of aluminum foil as the core and wrap yarn around it and around it.
Attach strings to the top and bottom of the yarn ball.
Make cherry blossom flowers out of felt and glue them onto the yarn ball.
Adding cherry leaves will enhance the cherry-blossom look.
You can hang it indoors as is, or add hardware and use it as a keychain—both are recommended.
Easy Hina Dolls with a Topsy-Tail Twist
These are Hina dolls made using fabric tape that’s even sold at 100-yen shops.
Since you attach Japanese-patterned fabric tape to another piece of fabric to make them, there’s no need for needles.
It’s safe and suitable for older adults as well.
After sticking the fabrics together, turn the piece inside out with a quick twist through the slit you’ve made.
Once flipped, the head and neck portion will form.
Use craft supplies or origami paper to make the faces and accessories, and attach them to the fabric you prepared earlier.
You’ll end up with simple Hina dolls that have a refined, grown-up feel.
It’s a project you can continue to enjoy afterwards by taking it home and displaying it in your room.
[For Seniors] Crafts You’ll Want to Make in March! Recommended Project Ideas (111–120)
Dandelion wreath
Spring is the season when the weather warms and many flowers begin to appear, and you’ll likely spot more dandelions as well.
This craft recreates dandelions—a quintessential spring flower—using origami and combines them into a wreath-like shape.
To make the dandelion flowers, fold a strip of origami paper in half and then fold it again to make it narrower, cut fine slits along the edge, roll it up, then spread and shape it.
The wreath base is made by assembling triangular units, and it’s recommended to use green to evoke leaves.
Finally, combine all the parts and add decorative elements like leaf pieces to complete the project.
Dandelion wall decoration
Introducing a remarkably realistic dandelion wall decoration that could be mistaken for the real thing at first glance.
You’ll need yellow, green, and white construction paper, plus wooden coffee stirrers.
First, cut out eight leaf shapes from the green paper.
Then cut another strip of green paper lengthwise, crease along the top edge, and make fine slits below the crease to create the flower stem.
For the flower, cut a long strip of yellow paper, fold it in half, and cut fine slits along the edge without leaving gaps.
Attach the stem to the flower strip, then roll it up from the flower side.
Once glued, gently fluff and open up the stem and flower by hand.
You’ll have a beautiful blossom.
Glue wooden stirrers together in a grid—three vertically and three horizontally—then attach the leaves and flowers to finish.
You can also make seed heads by using white paper for the flowers.
The work involves fine details, but the sense of accomplishment when you finish is exceptional.
Give it a try!