[Nursery/Kindergarten] New Year Craft Ideas: A Collection of Projects You Can Enjoy Even After Making Them
You want to plan New Year’s crafts at a nursery or kindergarten, but you can’t think of ideas that kids will enjoy while incorporating traditional elements… In times like these, decorations and classic toys made from familiar materials are perfect! Here, we introduce New Year-themed craft ideas ranging from lucky charms like akabeko (red cow), kagami mochi, and shimenawa, to playable crafts such as fukuwarai, kendama, and spinning tops.
They all make use of recycled materials like milk cartons, plastic bottles, and paper cups, so why not enjoy preparing for the New Year together with the children? Since the children’s creations are treated as “artworks,” we use the term “seisaku” (制作) in the text.
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[Daycare/Kindergarten] New Year Craft Ideas Special: A Collection of Creations You Can Enjoy Even After Making Them (81–90)
Draw with colored pencils! Cute horse

It’s a fun idea to draw and color while capturing a horse’s characteristics.
For the infant class, let caregivers or teachers make a rough sketch, and then try coloring it with paints, colored pencils, or crayons.
Choosing colors freely and tracing lines can be very stimulating.
For the preschool class, try drawing while looking at picture books or encyclopedias, or draw the horse you imagine and aim to finish it by coloring with colored pencils! In the video, they intentionally draw on textured paper to create a certain atmosphere—that’s a nice touch too.
Arrange a horse origami into a rocking horse!
From Christmas ornaments to zodiac decorations, this origami idea can do it all—and it’s fun to make with kids! By choosing different colors of origami paper and decorating with pens and stickers, you can create a horse that suits many occasions.
All you need are origami paper, pens, and stickers.
If you want to hang it as an ornament or interior decoration, attach string, fishing line, or yarn to the back.
The tips of the finished horse’s legs and tail are pointed, so handle with care to avoid injury.
Cute! How to draw a horse
https://www.tiktok.com/@uka_0618/video/7160985524067503361Among animals, many people find horses particularly difficult to depict in illustrations.
Unlike dogs or cats, they aren’t animals we see up close every day, and drawing just the face—let alone the whole body—raises the difficulty quite a bit.
So here, we’ll introduce an easy way to draw a horse! Surprisingly, you start with the ears.
Draw two ears, connect the space between them, and then sketch a longer outline for the head.
The key to making it look like a horse is to add the mane and pay attention to how you draw the nose.
Scratch-off New Year’s card
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Scratch-off cards you scrape with a coin make your heart pound with excitement as you wonder what’s written underneath, don’t they? How about incorporating that scratch-off idea into your New Year’s cards? You can easily make the scratch-off layer by simply mixing acrylic paint with dish soap.
Kids can enjoy it like a craft project, too.
As a New Year’s lucky draw, definitely try adding a scratch-off to your card designs.
Instead of painting the scratch layer directly, apply wax to the parts you want to hide first, then paint over it.
Once it’s fully dry, it will scrape off nicely.
New Year’s cards made with stencils
https://www.tiktok.com/@n.annlee321/video/7314600689370402049If you’re not good at drawing, try using stencils! With stencils, you just dab ink over a stencil sheet with a sponge, so even kids can easily create illustrations.
You can buy stencil sheets, but you can also make your own by punching shapes out of a clear file with a craft punch.
Think about the kind of illustration you want as you design with your stencil sheet.
Adding patterns or drawing faces on top with a pen will give your illustration a more polished, next-level finish.



