[Nursery/Kindergarten] New Year’s wall decorations! A collection of craft ideas to enjoy with children
In daycare centers and kindergartens, New Year’s craft projects are essential for sharing the joy of welcoming the new year with children.
Wall decorations featuring auspicious motifs like daruma dolls, kagami mochi, and the shishi-mai lion dance add a festive touch to the classroom.
There are many ways for children to express their individuality, such as stamp painting with tempera, origami, and three-dimensional creations using cotton.
Here, we present craft ideas that capture the spirit of the New Year.
Refer to the meanings behind each piece and tips tailored to different age groups, and enjoy the New Year atmosphere together with the children!
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[Nursery/Kindergarten] New Year’s Wall Decorations! A Collection of Craft Ideas to Enjoy with Children (41–50)
[Origami] Just-Paste Hagoita (Battledore)
![[Origami] Just-Paste Hagoita (Battledore)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mbXeT9_FoHg/sddefault.jpg)
Hagoita, long cherished as a classic New Year’s pastime and known as a protective charm, are perfect for New Year wall decorations.
Simply paste origami or chiyogami paper at random onto construction paper with a hagoita shape drawn on it, then cut it out along the outline to create a vibrant wall display.
Prepare origami in a variety of colors and patterns so children can make hagoita they like.
It’s a bright, festive decoration that will fill the room with New Year spirit.
Construction Paper: First Sunrise of the Year
Let’s make a wall decoration themed around the first sunrise of the year, one of the quintessential New Year’s motifs! It’s easy to create by simply layering construction paper, so you can finish it during small breaks in childcare.
Depict a towering Mount Fuji and clouds, and paint the sun in the background to evoke hatsuhinode, the very first dawn of the year.
You can download wall decoration templates from the internet, or try drawing your own original illustrations.
How about giving this wall decoration a try to help set a bright, festive mood for the New Year?
[Paint and brushes] Daruma wall display
![[Paint and brushes] Daruma wall display](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NthrrR6-w94/sddefault.jpg)
During New Year’s and other celebratory events, you probably see daruma dolls quite often.
They’re considered lucky motifs that symbolize overcoming hardships and striving toward goals, making them perfect for New Year decorations.
You can enjoy various forms of expression, such as painting patterns on the daruma’s body with paints or drawing the eyebrows with ink and a brush.
Each child’s personality comes through in the daruma’s expression, making the finished pieces delightful to look at.
It’s also recommended to add motifs related to the zodiac animal of the year.
karuta (traditional Japanese playing cards)
Alongside illustrations drawn by the children to celebrate the New Year, we’d love you to display a karuta-themed wall decoration.
Use construction paper with a single hiragana character from the Japanese syllabary written on it.
Have the children draw pictures on white paper to match the chosen character.
Provide tools like crayons and pens to help spark their creativity.
Once the drawings are finished, paste them onto the construction paper and decorate with New Year–themed items to complete the display! It would also be fun to come up with matching reading cards together with the children.
The Wall of the Twelve Zodiac Signs
The twelve zodiac animals are said to have been brought over from China.
In Japan, they’ve become an essential New Year’s custom! Creating wall decorations with the twelve zodiac as a motif could be a great way to help people learn about traditional Japanese customs.
Since the twelve zodiac include many different animals, children are sure to enjoy them too! If making all twelve is difficult, you can feature the zodiac animal of the year as the main character and combine it with other New Year motifs to create a lovely wall display.
