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Handmade decoration ideas for summer festivals

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A summer festival packed with fun attractions like food stalls, drums, and Bon Odori dancing.

Many people, from children to adults, look forward to summer festivals.

In this article, we’ll introduce handmade decoration ideas you can use for summer festivals.

These ideas are perfect not only for festivals held at nurseries, kindergartens, and senior care facilities, but also for families planning a home fair.

They’re easy to make, so create plenty of decorations and recreate the lively festival atmosphere!

[Summer Festival] Handmade Decoration Ideas (31–40)

miniature yagura (festival tower)

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How about making a “miniature yagura” that you can even use on a festival sign? A yagura is usually set up at the center of a Bon Odori venue, where people play drums and flutes on top of it.

With red-and-white curtains and strings of lanterns, it really stands out.

In this idea, decorated cardboard is used to represent the yagura, with toilet paper rolls painted in red-and-white patterns standing at the four corners.

The lanterns and drum decorations are also handmade, so please feel free to try making them.

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Morning glory wall decoration

How about incorporating morning glories—the quintessential summer flower—into your summer festival decorations? Here, we’ll share an idea for making morning glories using coffee filters.

Roll a coffee filter into a loose cone and dab watered-down paint onto the tip.

Open it up and let it dry, then shape it so it looks like a morning glory and secure it with a rubber band.

Finally, decorate a bamboo screen with the blossoms along with leaves and vines made from colored construction paper.

When displayed on a wall, it will look as if real morning glories are blooming there.

Try making them in your favorite colors—blue, pink, or purple.

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Goldfish wall decoration

When you think of summer festivals, goldfish often come to mind.

So let’s make a “goldfish wall decoration”! Stick strands of raffia (suzuran) tape side by side onto a strip of paper tape to create a curtain that represents water.

Make the goldfish by cutting colored construction paper and assembling the parts.

Attach the raffia tape curtain to the wall and place the goldfish wherever you like.

Add sparkly round stickers to fill in the empty spaces, and in no time you’ll have a summery wall decoration.

It’s very easy, so give it a try!

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Swirl Star Ornament

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Swirl Star Ornament

Let’s make a star ornament with beautiful spirals using paper quilling.

Prepare thin paper strips measuring 1 cm by 30 cm.

Color half of each strip with a marker beforehand.

Wrap the paper around a thin stick, such as a skewer or toothpick.

Once fully wrapped, loosen it slightly, adjust the diameter to about 15 mm, and glue the end.

Pinch it from the left, right, top, and bottom to shape it into a diamond.

Make five of these parts and glue them together into a star shape to finish.

Create different colors and sizes to add layered, three-dimensional star decorations to your festival.

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windmill

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windmill

Pinwheels that spin when they catch the wind are a favorite with kids, aren’t they? Just decorating with colorful pinwheels gives an instant summer feel and would likely be a hit as a photo spot, too.

Here we’re introducing a pinwheel idea made with origami.

Fold the origami paper into a triangle twice, then open it up.

Following the crease lines, make cuts from the edges toward the center, stopping about 3 cm before the middle.

You’ll end up with eight points; glue four of those points to the center to form the pinwheel blades.

Thread a toothpick-like skewer through the center, then slide on a straw that you’ve pre-bent with an accordion fold onto the pointed end to finish.

If you’re worried about the blades coming off, use a pin instead of a toothpick-like skewer.

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