[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.
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[For Seniors] Brightening Spring at Care Facilities: Wall Decor Ideas (81–90)
Making the April calendar
How about making calendars as one of your monthly recreation activities? Both the process of discussing and choosing seasonal motifs and the actual crafting after the plan is set are sure to be lively and fun! Using your hands can have a positive effect on cognitive function, and working together to create something—then seeing what you made actually being used—will likely bring great joy! Even things that were difficult before can improve in quality as you repeat the activity.
Give it a try!
Iris
Ayame (Japanese iris) is a beautiful flower with deep purple blossoms that bloom from early to mid-May.
As one of May’s representative flowers, how about folding an ayame with origami? You could use larger origami paper to make a wall decoration for May, or, conversely, use smaller paper to fold many and create a lovely display.
It’s also nice to glue them onto a colored backing sheet or arrange them in a photo frame.
By varying the shades of purple slightly to add light and dark to the petals, you can bring out an even more charming, iris-like look.
Jizo Bodhisattva pastel art
Many older people have probably seen rows of Jizo statues along the roadside at least once.
Let’s try turning a scene with Jizo statues into a wall decoration.
With pastel art, you can feel the gentle atmosphere of the Jizo even more.
We’ll powder the pastel medium and create the picture.
Pastel drawings are colored, but you can erase them with an eraser.
You can also use techniques like creating light and dark contrasts, blurring, and gradients.
Once older adults become comfortable with pastel art, it might be nice to have them try various techniques.
Jizo statues suit seasonal landscapes throughout the year.
Please use these pastel art ideas as inspiration.
Spring flower wreath
Introducing a spring-like floral wreath you can make with materials from a 100-yen shop.
Wrap yarn around the wreath base so there are no gaps, and attach a hanging string with glue.
For decorations, use yarn balls made by wrapping yarn around tissue paper, along with felt flowers.
To make the flowers, cut the felt into small triangles and glue them together.
When you open up the connected felt, the flower is complete.
It’s fun to add your favorite embellishments like ribbons to create a one-of-a-kind wreath.
Since the steps are simple, it’s also recommended as a recreational activity in senior facilities.
Iris made with tissue paper
Why not try making an iris flower wall decoration using tissue paper? Prepare blue or purple and yellow tissue paper, as well as green construction paper.
Cut the blue and yellow tissue paper into small squares.
Glue one blue and one yellow piece together to create the flowers.
There are several steps that involve using scissors, so please have staff assist anyone who is not comfortable with scissors.
Use the green construction paper to make stems and leaves, then display them on the wall.
The contrast between deep blue or purple and yellow will create beautiful iris flowers.
Craft activities are great for finger dexterity training and dementia prevention.
Everyone, give it a try!
kashiwa mochi (rice cake wrapped in oak leaves)
Kashiwa mochi is a traditional Japanese sweet made by wrapping a rice cake in oak leaves.
Because oak trees do not shed their old leaves until new shoots have grown, the leaves are said to symbolize prosperity for one’s descendants.
How about making kashiwa mochi as a wall decoration to celebrate the season? Since it has a three-dimensional finish, you can not only hang it on the wall but also display it standing.
Cut construction paper for both the rice cake part and the oak leaf part.
Shape the rice cake into a plump, round form, and fold the oak leaf with alternating mountain and valley folds to give it a three-dimensional look.
Finally, glue the pieces together and it’s done! It will look lovely displayed together with other Children’s Day items.
[For Seniors] Coloring Spring at Care Facilities: Wall Decoration Ideas (91–100)
helmet
Many of you may have fond memories of displaying a samurai helmet (kabuto) to celebrate Children’s Day.
The kabuto is said to symbolize protection for children from illnesses, accidents, and other dangers.
Here we introduce a wall decoration featuring kabuto that you can make with colored construction paper.
You can sketch the design on the paper and cut it with scissors, but if you first make a template from thin paper like origami, it’s convenient because you can mass-produce them.
Just cut the construction paper according to the template and glue the pieces together! Staff can prepare construction paper traced from the template, and have older adults do the assembling as an activity, too.
Let’s liven up your walls with colorful kabuto decorations!