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[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!

[Nursery/Kindergarten] New Year Wall Decorations! A Collection of Craft Ideas to Enjoy with Children (1–10)

Make it with tissue paper! Extra-large plum blossom

Kimie Gangi January wall decoration: extra-large plum blossoms made with tissue paper. #NewYearDecorations #TissuePaperCraft #FiveColorCranes #BigFlowers #Easy #Kids #Seniors #DIYCrafts #Fluffy
Make it with tissue paper! Extra-large plum blossom

Perfect for New Year wall decorations too! Here are some ideas for making plum blossoms with tissue paper.

You’ll make two parts: yellow stamens and red petals.

For both, accordion-fold the tissue paper, staple it in the center, then open it up sheet by sheet.

For the stamens, make fine cuts on both sides; for the petals, round both sides with scissors before opening.

Create two types of flowers—one fully open and one bud.

It’s also recommended to make bamboo and pine with green tissue paper; adding them to the wall display will make it look more festive.

Fluffy extra-large kagami mochi!

[January Wall Decoration] Fluffy Extra-Large Kagami Mochi [Easy Craft] Kagami mochi
Fluffy extra-large kagami mochi!

A festive wall decoration perfect for New Year’s that you can easily make with tissue paper.

Stack white tissue paper in circles to create a fluffy, oversized kagami mochi that instantly brings New Year vibes to your room.

You can also get creative by making a mandarin with tissue paper and adding decorative parts with origami or craft paper.

All you need are simple materials—scissors, glue, adhesive, a pen, double-sided tape, plus tissue paper and poster paper you can pick up at a 100-yen shop—so it’s easy to tackle even during a busy season.

Lovely translucence! Easy New Year’s decoration

Easy New Year’s decorations to make with kids! The translucent look is beautiful.
Lovely translucence! Easy New Year’s decoration

This is a beautiful seasonal craft that showcases the glossy shine and clarity unique to resin.

The video carefully demonstrates the process of tinting resin and pouring it into plum blossom shapes, and it also discusses tips for coloring and suggestions for substitute materials, making it approachable even for beginners.

As an educational element, it introduces how mixing colors nurtures color sense and how fine finger movements can promote brain development—resulting in a project that’s “fun to make and delightful to display.” A cute New Year’s craft with a satisfying sense of accomplishment.

[Nursery/Kindergarten] New Year’s Wall Decorations! A Collection of Craft Ideas to Enjoy with Children (11–20)

Oden that can also become a wall!

Here’s a craft project for making oden that even toddlers can do, and it can also be used for wall displays! First, let’s make the oden shop.

Cut colored construction paper into a face shape, then draw or glue on the oden shopkeeper’s facial features.

For very young children, prepare the face parts in advance.

Apply glue to the head area and stick on yarn hair piece by piece.

It’ll be fun to have yarn in various colors.

Next, let’s make the oden ingredients.

Stamp the konnyaku pattern using a cotton swab, make lots of your favorite ingredients, and then glue them onto colored construction paper of your choice to finish!

Hanging ornament of fans

[Simple ✨ Good Luck] Hanging Fan Decoration Made with Origami ✨ [New Year’s Ornament] Auspicious ✨
Hanging ornament of fans

Hanging fan decorations make the nursery bright and are perfect for New Year’s wall displays.

When making hanging fan decorations, keeping the shapes and sizes consistent enhances unity and elegance.

When forming two sheets of accordion-folded origami into a fan, be sure to staple them with the staple legs lying horizontally; this helps the fan open neatly.

Try making hanging fan decorations while considering the size of the space where you’ll display them.

If you decorate with mandarins or a kagami mochi together, it will feel more like New Year’s, and the children may be delighted.

[Kraft Paper] Shimenawa Decoration

Shimenawa decorations, which are used to welcome the Toshigami deity at New Year’s and to pray for abundant happiness, are also a great design for New Year wall decor.

Since you can simply crumple craft paper to add texture, twist it into a rope, and form it into a ring to complete the shape, it’s easy for children to make as well.

Braiding the rolled craft paper creates an even more realistic texture and is highly recommended.

Adding origami fans or flowers makes it a bright and auspicious wall decoration.

Osechi ryori (traditional Japanese New Year’s dishes)

We propose a wall display themed around osechi cuisine, perfect for welcoming the New Year! Teachers can do the prep and then create the ingredients together with the children, letting them enjoy learning about the origins and meanings of osechi as they celebrate the New Year.

For example, colorful paper renditions of lotus root, datemaki, and shrimp will make for an eye-catching display.

You can also adjust the process by age: in the infant class, children can simply stick on parts, while in the oldest class they can make as many components as they can themselves.

This way, kids in any class can take on the challenge!