[For Seniors] Enjoy at Day Service: A Roundup of May Craft Ideas

Rose Gemstone Soap

Rose gemstone soap ✨ How to make ✨ Easy DIY ✨ Handmade soap ✨ How to make rose soap ✨

Like jewels! These rose gemstone soaps are easy to make by melting and setting.

Put glycerin soap and colored soap for tinting into paper cups and heat them in the microwave to melt.

Add a few drops of aroma oil to each to give them fragrance and color, then drip the mixtures onto parchment paper to create petal pieces.

When they’re beginning to set, roll them up to form a rose shape, and apply a suitable amount of glitter along the edges of the petals.

Finally, coat the rose with melted glycerin soap, and you’re done! Please be very careful to avoid burns.

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Small flower bouquet

[No pattern needed] No difficult steps! Mini tulip bouquet made with felt / How to make a felt tulip / Felt flower / Tulip bouquet

You can make a bouquet of tulip flowers from felt with just a few simple steps.

All you need is felt in your favorite colors, glue, and a ribbon.

First, cut the felt into narrow strips and prepare the parts for the flowers, stems, and leaves.

For the flowers, make small slits in the felt and round off the corners, then overlap the pieces slightly, glue them, and roll them up.

For the stems, roll the felt into long, thin tubes.

Cut the leaves into leaf shapes and attach everything together with glue to finish.

A single stem is cute on its own, but if you make several and tie them with a ribbon, you’ll have a spring-like bouquet.

If you prepare the felt in advance, this craft can also be used for recreation at senior facilities or as finger and hand rehabilitation.

Give it a try!

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vase mat

Vase mat and coasters made with string and paper plates (Monthly Day, August 2021) #craft #elderly #nursingCare #dayService #easy #handKnitting

After taping a string to the back of the plate, slot it into a slit and wrap the thread around the front and back alternately.

Once you’ve passed thread through all the slits, stitch along the center as if weaving into those threads.

Using a single color is fine, but you can also tie on a different color mid-way and weave it in to combine colors.

When it reaches a good size, remove all the strings from the paper plate and tie the extended strings at the base.

Trim any excess length and you’re done.

Choose your favorite colors and make a vase mat that’s uniquely yours.

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Koinobori garland

[Easy & Cute Craft Tutorial] How to Make an Origami Koinobori Garland / Papercraft

Cut paper such as origami, chiyogami, or wrapping paper to make a carp streamer garland that brightens up Children’s Day! It’s also perfect for decorating walls in senior care facilities.

The method is very simple: cut your favorite patterned paper into koi-shaped streamers, fold back the mouth section, and decorate with masking tape of your choice.

For the carp’s eyes, round stickers make it easy.

Finally, thread a string through the folded mouth section and secure it with cellophane tape—and you’re done! Display lots of carp streamers in different patterns for a lively and stylish garland.

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Koinobori wall decoration

[Elderly Recreation] May Carp Streamer Wall Decoration [Easy Craft] Carp streamer

This is a wall decoration of carp streamers made with paper cups that even seniors can easily enjoy.

Cut a paper cup into four equal parts to create the body of each carp streamer.

The idea is that one paper cup makes four carp streamers.

Try using beautifully patterned chiyogami to represent the scales! Make a stick and a pinwheel with origami, and display them together to complete an impressive carp streamer wall decoration.

At a day-care service, why not make them while sharing childhood memories?

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koinobori bag

[Children’s Day Craft♪] Carp streamer bag made from a milk carton♪ DIY carp-shaped streamer using a milk carton♪

Let’s make a carp streamer (koinobori) bag using a milk carton! It’s a craft that’s perfect for gifting to your grandchild on Children’s Day.

Prepare a milk carton with the spout cut off, remove one side, make two slits, fold it, and shape it into a box.

Next, attach the cut construction paper with double-sided tape and decorate the carton.

Using double-sided tape keeps your hands clean and makes it easy! You can also play with combinations of the base color, the face, and the tail fin colors of the koinobori.

Plus, have fun customizing the patterns of the bento cup liners used for the scales and the color of the cardboard handles for the bag!

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carnation

Beautiful tissue-paper carnation with stem (with audio commentary) — Let’s make a paper carnation

The second Sunday in May is Mother’s Day, right? As Mother’s Day approaches, you see carnations everywhere—let’s make some using tissue paper! Take square sheets of tissue paper and fold them accordion-style.

At the valley folds, cut in from both sides to shape the petals.

Where you’ve made the cuts, snip finely with scissors so it looks like carnation petals.

The trick is to move the paper rather than the scissors.

Attach the flower to a round chopstick, then open the petals one by one.

Wrap green masking tape around the chopstick to make it look like a stem!

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