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[For Seniors] Color Your Care Facility’s Spring: Wall Decoration Ideas
In many elderly care facilities, such as day service centers, wall decorations are changed each month to match the season.
It’s also enjoyable to have the seniors help make them and decorate together.
In this article, we’ll share spring wall decoration ideas designed for older adults!
There are many motifs that come to mind when you think of spring: cute flowers like cherry blossoms and dandelions, and themes related to the Doll Festival (Hinamatsuri), among others.
A common feature is that they’re bright and charming.
Use lovely wall decorations that bring a sense of spring indoors to brighten up your facility’s walls.
[For Seniors] Brighten Up Spring at Care Facilities: Wall Decoration Ideas (1–10)
Mini carnation arrangementNEW!
You can display this anywhere it catches the eye, such as on a desk.
First, prepare four sheets of construction paper cut to 8 cm × 8 cm.
Fold each one into a small triangular shape, then make cuts to create petal shapes and unfold them.
Slightly curl the parts that will become petals on all four pieces; on one piece, insert a wire through the center and attach a bead in the middle.
After that, thread the remaining three pieces onto the wire and stack them to complete the carnation.
Attach a ribbon and a message card, and place it inside a paper cup lined with washi paper to finish a tabletop carnation decoration.
Plump-scaled koinobori (carp streamer)NEW!
Why not make koi-shaped streamers with cute, plump scales to decorate your wall? Just hanging them in a senior facility or your own room will instantly brighten the atmosphere and let you feel the season anytime.
Use two sheets of colored construction paper to make the base of the koi streamer.
Add a slight curve to suggest it’s swimming.
Join the two pieces together and trim the tail into a triangle.
For the scales, cut origami paper into teardrop shapes, snip them slightly, and glue them on so they become three-dimensional.
Using multiple origami patterns makes them extra cute.
The more scales you add, the more impactful it will look, so why not work together during activity time to create them as a group?
Koinobori wall decorationNEW!
When it comes to May, many people think of carp streamers gliding gracefully across the sky.
Here’s a craft that lets you enjoy those carp streamers indoors anytime.
Using a paper cup cut to one-quarter size and Japanese-pattern origami, make your own koi nobori.
Use eye stickers for the eyes and draw the whiskers with a permanent marker.
Create the true love koi, the red koi, and the baby koi with your favorite origami patterns.
We’ll also fold a kabuto helmet, a pinwheel, and irises using quarter-size chiyogami.
Make a backing board from construction paper and origami, and attach the carp streamers and pinwheel.
Build a wall-hanging base with four disposable chopsticks, fix the backing board in place, and it’s complete.
Japanese-pattern origami brings a calm, refined atmosphere.
Choose patterns you like and create your own original wall decoration.
Carnations to decorate the framed pictureNEW!
Here’s an idea for creating easy, eye-catching, three-dimensional carnation decorations.
First, get mini floral paper from a 100-yen shop and gently fluff it into the shape of a carnation.
Once the shape is formed, attach a wire to the center and wrap the whole piece with tape to complete the flower.
If you color white paper and lightly mist it with water, the pigment will naturally bleed to create a more realistic gradient.
Next, draw a vase and punch holes along the lines.
Wrap tape around the end of a thread and pass it through the holes so you can stand and display the carnations.
Finally, place the vase backing into a frame and arrange the carnations in a balanced way.
You’ll have a vibrant piece that looks like three-dimensional flowers are blooming inside the frame!
carp-streamer ornamentNEW!
This is a small tabletop koinobori ornament that lets you enjoy the spirit of May anytime.
Let’s build the base using wood-like craft materials you can get at a 100-yen shop: an MDF board, felt, bamboo skewers, and toothpicks.
Use an awl to make small holes in the MDF board and secure the bamboo skewers and toothpicks.
Make a ring with craft band, and create three carp streamers using patterned origami and colored paper.
Also make a spinning ball with craft band, and an iris flower and a samurai helmet with origami; attach each to the bamboo skewers and toothpicks to finish.
It doesn’t take up much space, so it’s perfect for displaying in the homes of older adults or in rooms at care facilities.
Since there’s a lot of fine work involved, it’s recommended for people who enjoy crafting.
wisteria flowers
A wall decoration themed on wisteria flowers that are at their best in spring.
The scene of cascading purple blossoms spreading out creates a magical atmosphere.
First, cut purple origami paper into fan shapes.
Next, glue the pieces together to form cones.
The number of these parts will determine the length of the wall decoration, so decide as you make it.
Attach the leaf pieces made from origami and hang them from the upper branch to finish.
Try displaying this graceful and beautiful wisteria wall decoration in a care facility.
origami carp streamerNEW!
Here’s how to fold a cute carp streamer with a puffy mouth.
It’s very easy, so everyone from children to seniors can enjoy making it.
If you use quarter-size origami, it turns out small and adorable; with a 15 cm square, it will be palm-sized.
First, place the origami colored side up and fold it into a triangle twice, then unfold.
Fold the bottom edge up to the nearest crease, then fold it up once more along the same line.
Shape it along the creases, flip it over, fold to the center, and repeat on the other side.
Finally, fold it in half, then decorate with round stickers for the eyes and patterns, and your cute carp streamer is complete.