[For 2-year-olds] A collection of craft ideas useful for winter childcare
Winter is full of events like Christmas and New Year’s, and it’s a season children in daycare look forward to.
When the cold of winter arrives, many of you may be looking for craft ideas that kids can focus on indoors.
In this article, we introduce many winter craft ideas recommended for two-year-olds.
Try making projects that cover a wide range of themes—pasting construction paper and stickers, drawing pictures, and trying fun techniques.
Because the children’s creations are treated as works (sakuhin), we refer to them as “seisaku” (productions) in the text.
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[For 2-year-olds] Collection of craft ideas for winter childcare (21–30)
Making ramen with paper-cutting play
A delicious ramen that both kids and adults love, perfect for warming up on a cold day.
Use colored construction paper as a bowl, and make the soup with brown construction paper! Glue yellow yarn for the noodles, then create toppings like menma, green onions, seasoned eggs, and chashu with origami, and glue them on.
With comments like “I’m going to add lots of seaweed!” and “I want extra chashu!”, children can enjoy adding their favorite toppings, making it a wonderful craft full of individuality.
Christmas bell made with a cup
Let’s make Christmas bells that are perfect as holiday decorations.
Cover the outside of a yogurt cup (or similar) with aluminum foil.
Use an awl to make two holes in the bottom, thread a chenille stem (pipe cleaner) through from the inside, and twist it at the base.
Tie a ribbon around the twisted part, decorate the sides with stickers, and you’re done.
For 2-year-olds, have them help with wrapping the foil and decorating with stickers.
The hole-punching step must always be done by an adult, away from the children.
[For 2-year-olds] A roundup of winter craft ideas for childcare (31–40)
Origami Oden
How about making “oden,” a winter comfort food, through an origami activity that helps develop children’s fine motor skills? The folds are simple, making it suitable for two-year-olds! Fold gray origami paper into a triangle to make konnyaku, roll brown paper into a tube for chikuwa, and you’ll have a delicious-looking oden set.
Adding patterns to the ingredients with colored pencils makes it look even more realistic.
It’s also great for expanding children’s imagination when they freely arrange and create their own oden ingredients.
Christmas tree made with torn-paper collage
Tear-and-paste collage is a fun activity that also nurtures imagination.
Let’s make a Christmas tree in bright greens and yellows using the torn-paper technique.
Prepare a sheet of construction paper for the base—black might work well—plus origami paper in green, light green, and brown, glue, star-shaped stickers, and decorative stickers.
Draw the shape of a tree on the black paper, apply glue to match the outline, and stick on the torn pieces of colored paper.
For the finishing touch, scatter decorative stickers in the background.
Looking at works by torn-paper artists like Umechigiri and Akihiro Yamanaka may also give you some good ideas.
Be sure to use them as references!
Cute decoupage gloves
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Are you familiar with decalcomania? It’s a technique where you press together paint applied to paper and transfer the accidental patterns that form.
Let’s use this to make decorations for gloves.
First, fold a sheet of colored construction paper in half and apply paint however you like on one side.
Once you’ve applied the paint, press the other half down to transfer the pattern.
Then cut the paper you’ve made into the shape of a glove.
Decorating the glove opening with cotton or similar materials adds a cute, three-dimensional look.
You can also glue it onto a backing sheet and add yarn or other embellishments.
Just roll it up and stick it on! Easy-peasy kagami mochi
https://www.tiktok.com/@hoiku.labo/video/7314907471255047425Let’s try making New Year’s kagami mochi out of tissue paper.
It’s just rolling and gluing, so it’s great for small children, too.
First, glue a paper sanpō (offering stand) that you cut from construction paper onto a backing sheet.
Next, tear the tissue paper into vertical strips.
Spread glue on top of the sanpō, then crumple the tissue paper into little balls and stick them on.
Finally, glue on a round “daidai” orange cut from construction paper to finish.
Drawing a little face on the orange is cute, too.
Display it in your entryway or living room to create a lovely New Year’s atmosphere.
Give it a try!
Fluffy snowman made by threading yarn
While enjoying lacing, let’s make a snowman perfect for winter.
In this idea, you punch holes into a circular frame cut from white construction paper and thread yarn through the holes.
Once you’ve threaded yarn through all the holes, the snowman’s body is complete.
Then cut a slightly smaller circle from construction paper and glue it on as the head.
Finish by attaching a scarf, hat, arms, and facial features.
Some yarns come in colorful multicolors, so using one of those will give it a bright, festive look.