[For Seniors] Enjoy at Day Service: A Roundup of May Craft Ideas
May is a lovely season of fresh green leaves, isn’t it?
Here are some easy craft ideas perfect for day-service activities in May.
May is full of events like Children’s Day and Mother’s Day.We’ve gathered craft ideas that tie in with those occasions.
Many of the projects introduced here can be taken home and displayed, so you can enjoy looking at them at home.
They also make great gifts for your grandchildren.
Some can even be used for a garden tea party or a stroll, so be sure to give them a try.
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[For Seniors] Enjoy at Day Service: Summary of May Craft Ideas (61–70)
Hanko Calendar
Let me introduce a stamp calendar that brings a sense of everyday life.
First, prepare a base calendar where the dates are clearly visible at a glance.
For the stamps, I recommend seasonal illustration stamps.
If you also have bright stamp ink colors, you might be able to create a more vibrant calendar.
Make sure to leave enough space on the calendar so there’s room to place your stamps.
It’s also a great idea to add stickers or tear pieces of washi origami paper and paste them on.
Once it’s finished, decorate your room with it and enjoy!
Making a Yamabuki calendar
Yamabuki, with its distinctive orange-tinged yellow flowers, can sometimes be seen along mountains and rivers from April to May.
This time, we’re introducing a calendar featuring yamabuki as the theme.
Make yamabuki flowers out of origami or construction paper and attach them to the calendar.
It’s also a great idea to craft butterflies and bees to go along with it.
The finished calendar should give older adults a sense of accomplishment from having created something themselves.
In addition, making the calendar offers a chance to think about the seasons and the dates while working on the project.
Teddy Bear Carnation
Introducing an adorable bear-shaped carnation decoration.
Prepare tissue paper, a straw, masking tape, glue, and construction paper to get started.
Using red tissue paper, make two large carnations and three small carnations, then glue them together in the shape of a bear’s face.
Wrap green masking tape around the straw and attach two leaves made from construction paper.
Glue the bear face to the prepared straw.
Soak black tissue paper in water, roll it into small balls, and attach them with glue as the bear’s nose and eyes, adjusting for overall balance.
Let it dry, and you’re done.
Origami Calendar
May is a warm and refreshing season, isn’t it? In parks and fields, you can often find plenty of clovers and white clover in bloom.
Here’s a calendar that evokes those May landscapes.
Let’s make a clover-shaped calendar using a commercially available craft kit.
By folding the printed calendar sheet, you can create a calendar in the shape of a clover.
The folding steps are mostly simple, so it should be easy for older adults to enjoy as well.
Sit in a chair and try making it while chatting with the people around you.
tear-off calendar
Let me introduce a fun tear-off daily calendar.
Create the calendar base so that you can flip each page.
It’s recommended to write the date, an illustration, and a short phrase on each page.
You might also have staff write the dates while participants create the illustrations or phrases—that could make it an enjoyable collaborative activity.
Thinking of seasonal words and illustrations while feeling the change of seasons is also great brain exercise, so it’s highly recommended! Give it a try and make your own original daily flip calendar.
Brush lettering art
Let’s introduce a calendar that uses brush-lettering art, whose characters and illustrations convey warmth.
Prepare pastels, a brush pen, drawing paper, and postcards, and let’s get started.
Use the brush pen to draw seasonally themed letters and illustrations on the postcards.
If you also get creative with color to evoke May, it might make the design even more vibrant.
On half of the drawing paper, write the dates.
Leave the other half blank so there’s room to attach the postcard.
Once you stick the postcard next to the dates, it’s complete.
By incorporating a sense of the seasons, you may find a bit of comfort in everyday life.
Kintaro tear-off daily calendar
Here’s a Kintaro tear-off calendar that’s perfect for May.
Let’s make the parts for Kintaro and the carp streamers by cutting colored construction paper.
By creating templates and cutting the paper from them, you can adjust the overall balance of Kintaro and the carp streamers, which I recommend.
When making the eyes of the carp streamers, use a compass to draw evenly sized circles.
Gluing together each part of Kintaro and the carp streamers is also a good hands-on activity.
Finally, glue everything onto the base, add the number cards, and you’re done!