[Nursery/Kindergarten] New Year’s wall decorations! A collection of craft ideas to enjoy with children

New Year’s shishimai (lion dance) craft

[New Year] Making a Shishimai (Lion Dance) #January #NewYear

This is a handmade activity that lets you enjoy and feel close to traditional events.

While assembling the face and learning the parts of the shishimai (lion dance)—eyes, nose, and mouth—children naturally develop their observation skills.

By freely combining the parts, you can create a lion with tons of personality, from smiling faces to humorous expressions.

It’s also great fun to play as a fukuwarai game, letting you fully enjoy the New Year atmosphere.

Making it together while asking, “What kind of face will it be?” is enjoyable with family and friends, and it’s perfect as a winter break craft activity.

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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

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.

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Lovely translucence! Easy New Year’s decoration

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

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.

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Oden that can also become a wall!

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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!

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Hanging ornament of fans

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

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.

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[Kraft Paper] Shimenawa Decoration

[Craft Idea] Shimenawa paper craft (New Year in January) (senior activities) (early childhood education) (wall decorations) (creative) (easy) (seasonal) (ema plaques)

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.

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Fluffy colorful sheep

A Preschool Teacher Explains How to Make a Sheep! An Easy Method Using Crayons and Cotton

Perfect for winter! Here’s a cute sheep wall art project to make with kids using crayons and cotton.

You’ll need colored construction paper, cotton, crayons, wood glue, and a pen.

Beforehand, the teacher draws the shapes of the sheep’s body, face, legs, and horns on construction paper.

Have the children cut out the shapes with scissors.

On the colored construction paper that will be the background, color in heavily with crayons.

Next, roll the cotton into a ball that fits in the child’s palm, and rub the cotton over the crayon until it picks up color.

Glue the cut-out pieces together with wood glue, then spread wood glue on the sheep’s body and stick on the cotton—done! Drawing the face and other details with crayons makes it even cuter.

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