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

Torn-Paper Collage: Daruma Craft for 2-Year-Olds

[New Year Craft] Daruma Wall Decorations Explained by a Nursery Teacher! (For Ages 2 and Up)

How about incorporating daruma dolls made with torn-paper collage into your New Year wall decorations—an activity even 2-year-olds can enjoy? Children can freely place the facial parts of the daruma, adding a “fukuwarai” element that makes the creation process fun! Teachers prepare in advance by cutting the daruma bodies and facial parts out of construction paper.

The children can then enjoy arranging the facial parts on the daruma as they like.

You can also have them tear and paste origami onto the body of the daruma to create patterns.

Let the children choose and paste papers in their favorite colors to nurture their imagination.

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[Scrap Material] Crane and Turtle

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Why not try making a New Year’s crane-and-tortoise craft using recycled materials? By arranging items like toilet paper rolls and paper plates and adding simple drawings, you can create it easily.

It’s also nice to express the crane’s translucent wings with tissue paper or add characters to woven fabric.

Paste on your first calligraphy of the year with your dreams or goals, then place the crane and tortoise to give it a festive finish.

These are auspicious creatures—“a crane lives a thousand years, a tortoise ten thousand”—so enjoy making them with the children!

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[Origami] Shishimai (Lion Dance)

[Origami Instructions] Try it for the New Year! How to fold a Shishimai (lion dance) with origami

Here’s how to make a lion dance figure out of origami that you can display for New Year’s.

During the New Year season, the lion dance is a popular good-luck charm, so let’s try folding one with origami.

If children aged around four and up work together with a teacher, they should be able to fold it too.

Make the face in red and the body in green.

Fold each part separately and then combine the two to form the lion dance shape.

Finally, draw the facial features such as the eyes with a pen, as well as patterns on the body, and you’ll have an origami lion dance decoration perfect for the New Year.

Try arranging it in a way that conveys a sense of movement.

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[Origami] Just-Paste Hagoita (Battledore)

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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.

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Construction Paper: First Sunrise of the Year

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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?

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[Paint and brushes] Daruma wall display

[Daycare/Preschool Craft] New Year Wall Decorations

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.

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karuta (traditional Japanese playing cards)

[Kindergarten/Daycare] January New Year Handmade Karuta Art/Pottery

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.

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