[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 (101–110)
Let’s draw cherry blossoms with a straw
Starting around late March, there are regions where cherry blossoms begin to bloom, right? Many older adults may also associate cherry blossoms with spring.
Let’s make an easy cherry blossom craft using straws.
Cut slits into the tip of a straw to divide it into five sections.
The five split tips will look like cherry blossom petals.
Apply pink paint to the five-sectioned tip.
If you dab the straw onto a backing sheet, it will look like cherry blossoms are blooming.
If you use colored paper as the backing, it becomes a lovely wall decoration.
Or you could press the straw like a cherry blossom stamp onto a postcard to create your own card.
Sakura wreath made of felt
Felt creations have a soft, cozy texture, don’t they? This felt cherry blossom wreath is a spring-like motif that brightens up any space just by being displayed.
Make five evenly spaced cuts in the pink felt.
Shape each section into a cherry blossom petal.
Sew them together with a needle and thread to form a three-dimensional cherry blossom.
Make white felt blossoms the same way, then add color with blush.
Create small pom-poms from yarn and attach each one to wire to finish.
Be sure to work carefully and safely when using needles and wire.
A cherry blossom wreath—familiar and beloved by many older adults—will warm the hearts of everyone who sees it.
A wreath of double-flowered cherry blossoms
Many seniors eagerly look forward to the cherry blossoms blooming, don’t they? Before the blossoms open outdoors, why not fold cherry blossoms indoors and feel the arrival of spring a little early? This delicate craft is completed by making several small cherry blossoms and layering them.
There are many fine steps, but you’ll feel a real sense of accomplishment when it’s finished.
Let’s make each petal one by one using small pink origami paper.
Glue the petals together, attach the leaves, and your cherry blossom is complete.
Make several blossoms to form a wreath, or decorate a garland or a wall—any of these would look lovely.
Enjoy trying different arrangements!
cherry blossom twig
Introducing a cherry blossom twig decoration that symbolizes spring in Japan.
Once you have pink origami paper ready, let’s make the blossoms.
Using a round dish or similar object makes it easy.
Cut out a circle, fold it in half, then fold it again so it becomes one-third the original size.
Sketch a petal shape with a pencil and cut along the line.
When you unfold it, you’ll have a cherry blossom with six petals.
Overlap one petal onto the neighboring petal to give it a three-dimensional shape.
Make a branch from brown origami paper and leaves from green origami paper, then attach them along with the blossoms to finish.
It looks adorable when added to a message card or gift box.
Give it a try!
Collage of cherry blossoms
Why not feel the arrival of spring with a cherry blossom collage? Prepare a sheet of stiff black cardstock and cut it in half.
Use a cherry blossom craft punch to cut designs from patterned paper or origami, making lots of blossoms.
Draw the tree trunk on the black cardstock with a white colored pencil, then glue on the blossoms.
Layer them so they overlap and fill in the gaps.
When applying glue, don’t coat the entire piece—apply it only to part of each blossom and attach it lightly to create a three-dimensional effect.
The contrast of vivid blossoms against the black cardstock makes for a beautiful piece.
Because it uses fine finger movements, it’s great for finger dexterity training for seniors.
Consider incorporating it into craft recreation activities at senior care facilities.
[For Seniors] Brightening Spring at Care Facilities: Wall Decoration Ideas (111–120)
Cherry blossom decoration made of paper
We’d like to introduce a cherry blossom craft that’s perfect as a mobile part, gently swaying indoors when hung with a string.
Prepare several sheets of construction paper cut into long, narrow rectangles.
Fold the paper and staple the ends to create cherry blossoms.
Older adults might recall past events while making these, too.
Conversations may liven up with memories of cherry-blossom viewing and stories from cherry blossom season.
Making many and decorating a wall to form a large cherry tree would also be lovely.
Try various arrangements and enjoy creating your own cherry blossom pieces.
Chiyogami torn-paper collage carp streamer
Chigiri-e is also enjoyed as a hobby, isn’t it? Because it uses your hands extensively, it’s effective for training seniors’ fingertips and helping prevent dementia! How about making a carp streamer with chigiri-e as a May wall decoration? If you’re doing this at a day-care service, staff can create the main body of the carp streamer with construction paper, and then have participants tear and paste chiyogami paper.
Seniors may get totally absorbed in the detailed work! Try making a carp streamer that really pops with colorful chiyogami paper.
