[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)
Wreath of daffodils and roses
Daffodils bloom until early spring, and roses bloom around late spring, so even though their seasons are offset, both can be said to be representative spring flowers.
This is a simple yet dimensional wreath with a glamorous look that combines daffodils and roses.
Another key point is that the wreath base and stem parts are kept flat, which helps emphasize the three-dimensionality of the daffodil and rose blossoms.
For each flower, it’s important to deliberately add fine creases, cuts, and bends, and to shape them carefully so that a sense of depth and volume comes through.
Swimming carp streamer
How about making an authentic koinobori for Children’s Day in May? It would surely be a delightful gift for your grandchild as well.
The way koinobori swim in the breeze is refreshing and striking, isn’t it? Displaying a koinobori at home is sure to strengthen family bonds even more.
What we’re introducing this time is a way to make a genuine-looking koinobori from just a single sheet of construction paper.
The scales look so realistic that you might mistake it for the real thing.
The appeal is that you can easily create the scale effect simply by folding the paper and making a few slits.
Three-dimensional wisteria flowers
How about making wisteria flowers out of origami and attaching them to colored construction paper for a three-dimensional decoration? Using various colors of origami paper—pink, blue, purple, and more—makes it vibrant and visually delightful.
Each fold is simple, like folding into triangles or squares.
It’s also nice that you don’t need scissors; just origami paper and glue will do.
There are many steps where you crease and then unfold once, but they’re essential for creating three-dimensional petals, so take your time and fold carefully.
These wisteria flowers have a simple, handmade charm and are especially recommended for those who are good at detailed work!
Three-dimensional tulips
Tulips bloom with beautiful flowers as spring approaches.
Their colorful blossoms convey the excitement of warmer days.
This craft is like a three-dimensional picture inspired by a scene of blooming tulips, made by combining pieces of construction paper.
The key step is to cut petal shapes, curve them to add roundness, and assemble them—this layering of petals gives the tulips their 3D appearance.
After that, just attach the tulips to a backing sheet, and it’s complete.
Express your originality by deciding which colors of tulips to use and where to place them.
Three-dimensional helmet
Some households display May dolls and helmets for Children’s Day, don’t they? The kabuto helmets and armor of May dolls carry the wish that “they will protect our child.” Let’s make a kabuto that’s perfect for a May wall display and celebrate Children’s Day.
You can download the template in this video, so please have it ready.
Place the template on construction paper, cut along it, and make the parts.
A key tip is to score along the template in advance so it will fold easily later—you can do this easily with scissors.
Assemble the pieces so each one becomes three-dimensional.
Some steps are a bit challenging, so when making this with older adults, please have staff members work together with them to complete it.
Simple bouquet
Many flowers reach their best viewing season in spring.
It’s also a time when you’ll have more chances to see blossoms in parks and meadows.
Older adults may encounter flowers when they go for a walk, too.
Let’s make a bouquet out of origami that evokes those proudly blooming flowers.
Use origami paper in your favorite colors to fold the flowers for the bouquet.
Since many seniors love flowers, some may find themselves smiling as they create their pieces.
You can hang the finished bouquet on the wall, or take it home and display it there.
Simple wisteria flower
Introducing a wisteria flower made by combining many small flower parts.
Cut a standard sheet of origami paper into quarters and fold it as you would when making a crane.
Once you open and fold both sides only on the surface that will become the front of the flower, the blossom is complete.
Make lots of flowers and leaves and assemble them to create a lovely hanging wisteria decoration.
Because this project requires many parts, it’s perfect for recreational activities in senior care facilities.
Get everyone involved and enjoy making it together!