[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] Brighten up spring at care facilities. Wall decoration ideas (141–150)
Japanese sword
For Children’s Day (Tango no Sekku), some people display a Japanese sword along with May dolls and a kabuto helmet.
Thanks to the influence of games and anime, Japanese swords are popular not only among older people but also among younger generations! Let’s make a cool wall decoration for your facility by crafting a Japanese sword out of origami.
You can make one sword using two sheets of origami paper.
Fold the handle and the blade separately.
Some steps may be a bit detailed, but origami is great for fine-motor training for seniors, so please give it a try! Finally, cut a slit in the handle and assemble it with the blade.
If you display items related to the seasonal festival along with the sword, your wall will look even more lively!
Cherry Blossoms and Rapeseed Flowers
Spring is the season when flowers of many colors bloom in profusion; not only cherry blossoms but also rapeseed flowers brighten the landscape.
This is a three-dimensional decoration that depicts a spring scene and the uplifting feeling of rapeseed blossoms blooming around cherry trees.
The key is to make each part with tissue paper, carefully adding wrinkles and shaping them like flowers to create a soft, three-dimensional look.
A sturdy cherry tree with soft pink blossoms, arranged with yellow rapeseed flowers around it, completes the piece.
It might also be nice to emphasize spring by adding decorations like fallen petals and butterflies, not just flowers in bloom.
Hanging decoration of cherry blossoms and leaves
Here’s a lovely hanging decoration that pairs beautifully with cherry blossom petals, made with softly textured, colored washi paper.
You’ll create the cherry blossom petals from washi.
Because washi is soft and easy to handle, it may be especially accessible for older adults.
You can also make paper fans by accordion-folding and use them as parts for the hanging decoration.
If you make the hanging structure into a cherry tree and add a Japanese bush warbler, it will evoke an even stronger feeling of spring.
Seeing the finished piece can give older adults a sense of accomplishment and encourage them to share memories and stories about cherry blossoms from their past.
cherry blossom arch window
These days, many homes are being built with smaller windows for security reasons.
From a safety perspective, that’s understandable to an extent.
How about your home? If you have a plain, empty wall, why not create a “cherry blossom arch window” that looks like a real window there? Imagine stained glass in a church, but made with colored paper.
Use light blue for the window to evoke the color of the sky, and decorate each pane with cherry blossoms in your own style.
Origami works, paper cutouts work—there’s no one right way.
A variety of cherry blossoms would be lovely.
Sakura haiku decoration
When you think of spring, cherry blossoms are surely one of the first things that come to mind.
Here’s a video that shows you how to make cherry blossoms easily.
It’s perfect for recreational activities at day-service centers and similar settings! Combining them with other flowers can create a more stylish atmosphere.
All you need are items like thick paper, craft bands, and colored paper.
Preparation is simple, so you can get started right away.
If everyone pitches in to make these cherry blossoms, you’ll be able to produce a lot in no time.
Give it a try!
Cherry blossom wall hanging
Let us introduce a cherry blossom wall decoration that brings a touch of spring into your room.
Flatten a toilet paper roll and cut it in half; decorate one half with washi paper or colored paper to make the base.
Cut the other half into long, thin strips and shape them into cherry blossom petals.
Create a petal-shaped template from construction paper, then cut pink origami to match.
Sandwich and glue the toilet paper roll petals between the origami petals—the roll’s natural curve adds a nice accent to each petal.
Attach the petals to the decorated base, add any embellishments you like, and it’s done.
You can stick it directly on the wall or punch a hole and thread a string to hang it.
Try decorating your room in spring colors!
cherry blossom petals
As the first of the four seasons often mentioned, spring in Japan is a season that evokes new beginnings.
Let’s make sakura (cherry blossom) petals out of origami to symbolize this season of beginnings.
It’s a simple project—just fold the paper, make a few scissor cuts, and unfold—but the key is to fold carefully along the guide lines so that the five petals open out nicely.
Because of its clean, single-color look, it’s easy to use as a spring-themed element in a variety of decorations.