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[For Senior Care Facilities] Easy! September Craft Ideas to Feel the Autumn Season

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Leveraging my experience working as a care worker at a day service, I am currently active as a writer in the caregiving and welfare fields. Beyond writing, I hope to expand my work into web design and illustration. I am a mother of three who has begun studying to become a certified social worker.

When it comes to September events and observances, the Mid-Autumn Moon, Respect-for-the-Aged Day, and the autumn equinoctial week come to mind.

These are long-standing traditions in Japan, so they should be familiar to many older adults.

In this context, we’re introducing simple craft activities suitable for senior facilities such as day service centers.

We’ve gathered many projects perfect for September, featuring motifs like moon-viewing rabbits and themes of longevity and health.

They’re fun to make, attractive to display, and likely to give a sense of accomplishment! Although summer is ending and autumn is approaching, some regions still experience hot days.

Craft activities are great because they can be done indoors and are accessible even for those who find physical movement challenging.

Please give them a try!

[For Senior Facilities] Simple! September Craft Ideas to Feel Autumn (21–30)

Quilling art: grapes

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Quilling art: grapes

This is a grape art piece made with quilling, where you roll narrow strips of paper.

Cut construction paper into long, thin strips and roll them around a chopstick.

Since it uses the fingertips, it can also help stimulate the brains of older adults.

Make several rolled pieces and glue them onto a backing so they resemble grape berries.

It already looks like grapes at this stage, but we’ll add a bit more.

Prepare circular cutouts of origami paper in colors like purple or pink.

When you glue these circles on top of the rolled paper attached to the backing, it creates a grape-like, realistic effect.

Displaying the grape artwork in a frame made from tree branches is also recommended.

You can even use branches you find while taking a walk in a park.

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Gradient Cosmos

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Gradient Cosmos

Cosmos flowers often flutter delicately and come in vivid colors.

Let’s try making a paper craft that captures the feel of cosmos flowers.

We’ll use medium-weight colored quality paper, which has more body than copy paper and is just the right thickness for folding and layering.

After cutting the paper into petal shapes, add a gradient.

Create the gradient by smudging crayon with your finger.

The key is to wrap your finger with plastic wrap when making the gradient.

This method seems enjoyable for older adults as well.

Layer the petals to form a cosmos flower.

Make some leaves and attach them to the flower to finish it off even more beautifully.

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[For Senior Care Facilities] Easy! September Craft Ideas to Feel the Autumn (31–40)

Making grapes with coffee filters

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Making grapes with coffee filters

Here’s an introduction to a grape craft using coffee filters.

You might hear older adults ask, “Can you really do crafts with coffee filters?” Yes, you can.

Coffee filters don’t tear even when you place something moist on them.

This craft uses that water-resistant property.

Cut the coffee filter into round shapes like grapes.

Use liquid glue to stick them onto a backing sheet.

Then paint them with your preferred grape-colored paint.

If you peel off the filters before the paint fully dries, the paint will bleed through and create a grape-like image on the backing sheet.

You can also take the peeled-off filters and stick them on another sheet to make more grapes.

It’s fun to create two different styles of artwork in one go.

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Stained glass grapes

Sign-style stained glass [Summer Vacation Craft] Grapes - easy, cute, stylish

Stained glass grapes

Stained glass displayed in museums and churches creates a lovely atmosphere, doesn’t it? Let’s make a grape-themed piece with a stained-glass look.

Place a drawing of grapes on a backing sheet and cut along the lines with a craft knife.

Next, place blue and purple film over the grape drawing on the backing sheet and draw your cutting lines.

Cut along those lines and stick the pieces onto the backing sheet.

That’s all it takes to complete a stained-glass-style artwork.

Since it doesn’t use real glass and is easy to make, it should be a project that’s approachable for older adults as well.

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Cosmos flowers dabbed with a sponge

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Cosmos flowers dabbed with a sponge

This is a cosmos flower craft made by dabbing like stamping.

Cut a paper plate into the shape of a cosmos flower.

It’s easier if you first sketch the cosmos on the paper plate and then cut it out.

Place the cut paper plate on a sheet of paper, and dab a sponge with paint onto it to create cute cosmos flowers.

Try using cosmos-like colors such as pink, white, and red.

Aside from cutting the paper plate, there aren’t many complicated steps, so it’s a project that many older adults can easily participate in.

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Wreath of dragonflies and cosmos flowers

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Wreath of dragonflies and cosmos flowers

Cosmos flowers are one of the symbols of autumn, aren’t they? You might also have chances to see dragonflies gliding smoothly through the autumn sky.

Let’s make a wreath with cosmos and dragonflies as motifs to capture that autumn feeling.

We’ll give the dragonfly wings and cosmos petals a gradient effect.

Scribble with several colors of water-based pens on aluminum foil, then mist it with water.

Place the paper for the dragonfly wings and cosmos petals on top to transfer the colors onto the paper.

The soft, delicate gradient—hard to achieve with a brush—looks beautiful.

For the wreath base, using a paper plate with the center cut out makes it easy.

Attach the dragonflies and cosmos to the wreath to finish.

This autumn craft should help older adults feel the season as well.

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Translucent Cosmos Sheet

Kimie Gangi’s tissue paper craft: “Let’s make a translucent cosmos sheet.”

Translucent Cosmos Sheet

Let’s make a cosmos craft with beautiful translucency using tissue paper.

Stack three colors of tissue paper and cut them into cosmos petal shapes.

Sort the cut pieces by color and assemble the cosmos flowers.

Use watered-down glue to attach the tissue-paper cosmos to an OPP sheet for bouquets.

This will create a semi-transparent cosmos sheet.

You can fold or roll the sheet to make a variety of creations.

It would be fun to think together with older adults about what to make.

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