[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 in Care Facilities: Wall Decoration Ideas (31–40)
Translucent Garland
A translucent garland that creates a light, springlike atmosphere.
Cut translucent origami lengthwise into strips one-eighth the width.
Glue each piece together alternately top and bottom in sequence, offsetting them diagonally as you go to create a soft, petal-like design.
Make a second set of the same pieces and attach it to the first to give the garland a three-dimensional look.
Punch holes and thread clips through to finish it as a hanging decoration.
Because it uses translucent origami, the soft colors shine beautifully when light passes through.
Wisteria flowers made with tissue paper and cellophane tape
Using tissue paper to make wisteria flowers is a lovely idea.
Choose pastel-colored tissue paper to create a soft, gentle look.
It’s easy for older adults as well, so everyone can enjoy making them together.
By carefully crafting each petal one by one, you’ll surely feel a sense of accomplishment.
Hang the finished wisteria from the ceiling, and they will sway like real flowers, as if you’re standing beneath a wisteria trellis.
It will create a beautiful space where you can feel the arrival of spring.
Enjoy a wonderful time sharing the joy of spring with older adults.
Japanese bush warbler
The Japanese bush warbler, known for its “ho-hokekyo” song, is perfect for a spring origami activity.
You can make it with a single sheet of origami paper, so it seems easy for seniors to join in.
Prepare light yellow-green origami paper, round stickers, and a white pen.
Fold the paper in half into a triangle, then continue folding along the creases.
Once the warbler’s body is made, use the round sticker and white pen to create the eye.
If you don’t have a round sticker, draw it with a black pen instead.
This cute bush warbler origami is likely to spark seniors’ creativity.
Try making plum blossoms as well and display them together.
They’ll instantly brighten up the room.
Full-bloom cherry blossoms made with tissue paper
Here’s a craft made with tissue paper that looks like fully bloomed double-flowered cherry blossoms.
Accordion-fold the tissue paper and tie the center with a plastic string.
A key tip is to split the ends of the plastic string; the frayed ends will stand in for the stamens and pistils of the cherry blossom.
Cut the tips of the accordion fold as well, then fan it out and shape it.
This will let you express the many layered petals of a double cherry blossom.
The plump, rounded blossoms are likely to delight older adults, too.
If you also make a cherry tree and decorate it with the double blossoms, you can enjoy a hanami atmosphere indoors.
A simple flower made with an accordion fold
When we think of spring, we often picture lush natural landscapes, with flowers we don’t even know the names of blooming everywhere.
This piece is about creating those vibrant, colorful spring flowers using combinations of origami.
The process is to accordion-fold the paper, then fold the whole piece in half and round off the edges with a cut.
After that, open it up, connect the pieces, and shape them into a circle.
By changing the colors of the origami or varying the sizes, let’s create a colorful flower field.
[For Seniors] Brightening Spring in Care Facilities: Wall Decoration Ideas (41–50)
Rapeseed blossom wall decoration
We’d like to introduce a cute “rape blossoms” (nanohana) made with yellow origami.
Let’s decorate facility walls, such as in day-service centers, with adorable yellow nanohana.
Nanohana is one of the flowers that herald the arrival of spring, beginning to bloom around February.
Many older adults have likely seen fields and riverbanks filled with these blossoms.
Because it’s a familiar flower and the folding steps are simple, it’s an easy project to try.
If you make many and cover an entire wall, people may feel the warmth of spring even in February’s winter chill.
You can focus and work on your own, or enjoy folding origami while chatting with a few others.
Please spend a lovely time with a nanohana wall decoration.
ladybug
A popular origami piece that evokes the arrival of spring is the ladybug.
It’s easy to make with a single sheet of paper, so even seniors can enjoy it with confidence.
Its rounded shape and the cute contrast of red and black make it perfect for seasonal decorations.
The steps are simple, yet using the fingertips provides brain stimulation and hand exercise, making it effective for rehabilitation as well.
Display the finished ladybugs together with cherry blossoms and other flowers to create a bright, cheerful spring scene.
It’s a recommended craft that will instantly lift your spirits.
