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

Koinobori and wisteria flowers

May decorations: carp streamers and wisteria 🎏

Here’s a decoration using paper plates featuring carp streamers (koinobori) and wisteria flowers.

Make the koinobori and wisteria out of origami.

Wisteria flowers are purple, right? If you vary the shade of the purple origami—from lighter to darker—it will look even more beautiful.

It’s also nice to make lots of origami wisteria and arrange them like a wisteria trellis.

Some older adults go to see wisteria in the spring, so it could spark a lively conversation about those outings.

Cut out the center of a paper plate and attach paper with a sky pattern.

This will make it look like koinobori swimming magnificently in the sky.

Hang it on the wall for a piece that evokes the feeling of May.

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Koinobori hanging decoration

Easy! How to make koinobori 🎏 Sparkly beads and washi tape ✨ Perfect for hanging ornaments or garlands / Children’s Day decorations / Easy craft

Just looking at it will brighten your mood! This is a sparkly hanging carp streamer decoration.

Since the base uses cardboard, after cutting it into the shape of a carp streamer, hollow out the inner scale sections.

Next, cover the entire base with white masking tape.

Then wrap your favorite patterned masking tape over it to decorate.

For the scales, use pipe cleaners threaded with beads.

Thread the pipe cleaners through the gaps in the cardboard in a zigzag pattern, adding beads and securing them as you go.

Finally, stick on the eye stickers and it’s done!

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Koinobori made of organdy ribbon

[Easy Craft] [100-Yen DIY] Simple with organza ribbon! A grown-up koi-nobori brooch [Koinobori craft] #shorts

A stylish carp streamer made with sheer organza ribbon.

You can also attach it to clothing as a corsage.

First, cut the ribbon to twice the finished length.

Then fold it in half and secure it with double-sided tape.

The fold will be the head, so add an eye there, and cut the opposite end with scissors to make the tail fin.

After that, decorate it cutely with beads and lace to your taste! Attach felt to the back, then add a circular piece cut from a milk carton and a corsage pin on top, and you’re done.

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Climbing koi-nobori

Let's make a climbing carp streamer! #crafts #koinobori #childcare #paper_cup #Shorts

Shall we make a carp streamer you can also enjoy flying? We’ll use a paper cup, a straw, round stickers, and kite string.

First, cut out the bottom of the paper cup.

Then gently flatten the rim and cut a triangle with scissors to make the tail fin.

Inside the cup, stick two short, vertical pieces of straw facing each other.

Use round stickers to add the eyes and scales.

For the scales, cut the stickers in half.

Thread the kite string through the straws and you’re done! Hook the looped part of the string onto a high spot and set the carp streamer lower down.

By moving the string alternately left and right, friction will make the carp streamer rise!

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Brush pen illustration – Koinobori (carp streamers)

Super easy! Let's create a piece with illustrated carp streamers and brush lettering

Brush-written characters and illustrations convey strength, dynamism, and a distinctly Japanese atmosphere.

How about using such brush lettering and brush-style illustrations to create a calendar imbued with that robust Japanese aesthetic? May features Children’s Day, so carp streamers are a classic motif; you might also use bold brush flicks to depict the way they billow in the wind.

Since brushes can vary line thickness, it could be interesting to explore how differences in thickness change the overall impression.

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Cute koi-shaped streamers with traditional Japanese patterns

[Children’s Day Origami] Cute carp streamer origami with voice narration ☆ Origami Japanese carp streamer tutorial May decoration

You can find many kinds of origami paper at 100-yen shops and variety stores.

Let’s try folding a carp streamer (koinobori), which you can also use for a May calendar, using Japanese-patterned origami paper.

Some steps are a bit intricate, so please make it together with support from those around you.

If you’re good at origami, you’ll find this project fun.

Origami involves lots of finger movement, which helps stimulate the brain.

It can be done while seated, so many older adults are likely to enjoy making it.

You can create a calendar decorated with lovely origami koinobori.

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Calendar with a large samurai helmet and carp streamers

May calendar

In homes of elderly people who have grandchildren, you might find a kabuto (samurai helmet) displayed for Children’s Day.

Recently, it seems more common to display a kabuto than carp streamers for the holiday.

A calendar featuring a large kabuto can also evoke the arrival of May.

To fold a large kabuto, you need a big sheet of paper.

Using newspaper makes it easy to create a large helmet.

If you add accents with traditional Japanese origami or patterned paper, you’ll have a cool-looking kabuto.

You can also attach carp streamers made from origami and try making a May calendar.

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