[Childcare] Rainy days can be fun too! Recommended rainy-season craft ideas for June
During the rainy season, when there are more rainy days, kindergartens and daycare centers often have stretches when the children can’t play outside, which can be disappointing for them.
Here, we’ll introduce craft ideas that make those days fun.
There are projects like umbrellas, frogs, and snails that you can make to decorate the walls or play with, works that use interesting techniques, and items to make together with adults.
Choose activities that match the children’s ages and developmental stages, and try making them together.
If you decorate the room with lots of what you’ve made, you can enjoy the rainy season too!
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Hydrangeas that can also be used on walls
A gorgeous finish! Here are hydrangea ideas you can also use on walls.
When you walk outside during the rainy season, you often spot beautiful hydrangeas, don’t you? Their charm lies in the lovely gradient-like colors and the round shape formed by clusters of tiny blossoms.
This time, let’s make hydrangeas by layering origami in similar color tones.
You’ll need drawing paper for the base, origami in related hues, and glue or double-sided tape.
Using origami cut into quarter-size pieces seems to produce a delicate-looking hydrangea!
Let’s draw a picture using rain.
Rain during water play or swimming makes children look even more delighted.
Maybe it’s that sense of invincibility that comes from thinking, “It’s okay to get wet.” It can also be fun to create using the properties of pens—oil-based pens don’t bleed in water, while water-based pens do.
That opens up lots of inventive ways to plan in reverse: “It’s okay if this part bleeds a bit,” or “I don’t want this section to bleed.” You could even wait for a rainy day and let it actually get wet.
If you’re thinking about health considerations, a spray bottle or watering can is a good substitute.
Teru teru bozu wreath
Using a paper plate and tissue paper, you can make a cute, gently swaying teru-teru bozu wreath.
First, cut out the center of a large paper plate.
If children are using scissors, make sure they’re well-practiced with cutting before they start.
Next, use crumpled tissue paper and a plastic bag to make the teru-teru bozu.
It looks adorable if you decorate the neck with a ribbon, so it’s a good idea to have pre-tied ribbons for the children to stick on.
Create the faces of the teru-teru bozu, decorate everything with round stickers, and then attach them to the paper plate wreath.
Have everyone finish up their pieces into charming works together.
Hydrangeas in bubble art
Do you know bubble art? It’s a technique for painting using colored bubble solution.
The solution foams easily, and by dropping the colored bubbles onto paper, you create unique patterns.
Bubble art is perfect for depicting hydrangeas, the flowers of the rainy season.
Hydrangeas are clusters of small blossoms.
Try expressing that shape with a frothy, bubbling solution.
The dreamy result is sure to delight children.
Simple hydrangea
Here’s an easy hydrangea craft that combines origami and tissue paper.
Prepare origami paper, tissue paper, a stapler, a felt-tip pen, and glue, and let’s get started.
Fold the origami paper in half twice.
On the folded paper, lightly sketch cutting lines by drawing a curve at the corners.
Cut along the lines with scissors and open it up to finish the shape.
Stack four sheets of tissue paper, staple them, and then open the tissue paper layers one by one to fluff them up.
Gently place the cut origami hydrangea on top of the opened tissue paper and glue them together.
Making a lot of these will add depth and volume to your hydrangeas and help you feel the season.
[Finger Painting] Rain and Teru Teru Bozu
Teru teru bozu hung up on rainy days look different depending on the angle, which makes them fun to observe.
Here’s a craft idea using finger painting.
Prepare white drawing paper and use crayons or stamps to depict rain.
If you’re using crayons, try drawing vertical lines.
Next, cut another sheet of paper into the shape of a teru teru bozu and add patterns with finger painting.
You can spread paint inside a sealable bag or put paint directly on your fingers and draw.
Attach paper-made facial parts to the painted teru teru bozu, then stick it onto the background to finish.
Adding an umbrella piece makes it extra cute!
Hydrangea wreath
Hydrangeas reach their peak viewing season during the June rainy period.
Let’s make a wreath inspired by hydrangeas and hang it on the wall! Since it’s a wreath, prepare construction paper or thick paper cut into a donut shape, or a paper plate, and attach pieces that evoke hydrangea florets.
For example, flowers made from tissue paper, or small flowers made from origami.
Treat each one as a floret and stick them onto the donut-shaped base.
It’s recommended to keep the colors within the same family to give it a more hydrangea-like look.
If you add even smaller flowers made from origami on top, they’ll make a nice accent!
