[Nursery/Kindergarten] New Year Craft Ideas: A Collection of Projects You Can Enjoy Even After Making Them

Fukuwarai of Anpanman

Fukuwarai is a game where you place facial parts like eyes and a nose onto a face while blindfolded and enjoy the resulting expression.

It’s a classic New Year’s game, but these days animal and character versions are sold, so you can enjoy it year-round.

Here, we’ll introduce a fukuwarai made with felt.

It’s easy to make—just cut the face base and parts out of felt.

Any motif is fine, so make something your child will love.

If you prepare several kinds of parts, you’ll be able to enjoy a variety of expressions.

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Handprint Kadomatsu Ema

How about making an ema (votive plaque) decorated with handprints that even infants can work on? Let’s turn the children’s handprints into kadomatsu (New Year’s pine decorations) and create a fun, pop-style ema! First, take the children’s handprints on paper and cut around them.

Next, make the kadomatsu section by attaching the base and adding decorations.

Finally, stick the kadomatsu onto a piece of construction paper cut into the shape of an ema, and finish by adding squares of origami or chiyogami to the blank areas.

Even if your child doesn’t understand what a kadomatsu is, the festive New Year’s decorations are sure to lift their spirits.

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Daruma

[Simple and Cute] New Year’s Daruma Craft 🎍 #craft #NewYear #NewYearDecorations #DIY #nurseryTeacher #1yearOld #2yearsOld #3yearsOld

Daruma dolls are often displayed as New Year’s decorations or ornaments to celebrate the new year.

Let’s try making a daruma together with children, since it’s a beloved good-luck item.

Once you prepare construction paper cut into a daruma silhouette, the rest is simply letting the kids draw freely.

They can enjoy various ideas, such as drawing with crayons or sticking on stickers.

It’s also recommended to make it even more festive by adding decorations like eye stickers or chenille stems (pipe cleaners).

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Thread-spinning top

Simple Craft 053: String-Pulled Top — Can It Spin Even Stronger?

Let’s try making a cool, fast-spinning pull-string top! It’s a perfect craft idea for kids, too.

This top can be spun just by pulling a string, even if you don’t have much strength.

First, create the top’s shape with Perler beads (fuse beads), then insert a chopstick with a sharpened tip into the center of the top.

It will spin well as is, but by adding a mechanism with a straw to pull the string, you can make it spin even more powerfully! Winding and pulling the string might feel a little tricky at first, but give it a try and spin your top in style!

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Osechi ryori (traditional Japanese New Year’s dishes)

[Seasonal Craft] No.19 Let's make osechi cuisine! New Year's osechi dishes—Japan's tradition.

One of the joys of New Year’s is a luxurious osechi feast! Before the holiday arrives, let’s get a head start and make osechi together.

We’ll craft a tiered jubako box from cardboard and red or black construction paper, then fill it with osechi dishes made from origami and other materials.

These days, more families are skipping osechi.

By making classic items together—like a big spiny lobster using red paper and pipe cleaners, a rolled datemaki made by curling brown and yellow paper, and black soybeans shaped from crumpled aluminum foil—it could be a great opportunity to learn about Japanese traditions.

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