Ideas for Winter-Themed Crafts and Bulletin Board Projects for 5-Year-Olds
By the time children are five, they handle scissors and glue more smoothly, and the range of craft activities expands dramatically.
Why not enjoy some winter-themed crafts together with your five-year-olds?
We’ve gathered plenty of ideas inspired by events like Christmas, New Year’s, and Setsubun, as well as winter-specific items like snowmen and mittens.
Encourage projects that let children freely express the worlds they imagine and experience a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.
Since we treat what the children make as works (art pieces), we refer to them as “seisaku” (creations) in the main text.
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[For 5-year-olds] Collection of ideas for winter-themed crafts and wall displays (91–100)
Made with sponge stamps! Fun oden
Using sponge stamps, we’ll create patterns for oden ingredients.
For example, for konnyaku, if you press a coarse-textured sponge or a sponge with raised bumps onto a triangle-cut piece of gray construction paper like a stamp, you can make the konnyaku’s speckled texture.
In the same way, using a sponge with carved grooves will make the daikon’s striations, and a sponge with fine cuts can create the wavy, mottled pattern of fish cakes.
Once your oden ingredients are ready, paste them onto construction paper cut into the shape of a pot to complete your oden hot pot!
For winter childcare! Origami oden
Let’s make oden out of origami, with three items—konnyaku, daikon, and chikuwa—skewered on a stick.
First, fold a gray sheet of origami paper twice to make a small triangle, draw a pattern, and you’ll have the konnyaku.
Next, fold a yellow sheet using the “cushion fold,” then fold all four corners inward to round it out; draw a cross-shaped slit to finish the daikon.
For the chikuwa, draw a pattern on brown origami paper and roll it into a tube shape.
Finally, fold another sheet into a long, thin skewer and attach the three pieces you made.
Your oden is complete!
Ideas for Winter-Themed Crafts and Wall Decorations for 5-Year-Olds (101–110)
Snowflakes made with origami
Let’s make 3D snowflakes using origami paper.
It takes focus and perseverance, so try it with a 5-year-old who enjoys crafting! First, fold the origami paper into a triangle and make six cuts.
Open it up, then glue together every other pair of cut strips.
Glue them into neat circles.
After gluing from top to bottom, flip it over and glue the remaining unglued ends into circles as well.
Make six of these parts, then adjust and assemble them together.
It’s a big project, so it can be fun to work on it as a team!
Fluffy hat wall decoration
Let’s try making a fluffy winter hat using yarn.
The wide variety of yarn sold at 100-yen shops is quite handy for crafting, isn’t it? Thicker yarn is especially easy to work with, and it creates a more noticeable fluffy texture in the finished piece.
For the hat’s ribbing, wrap yarn around a rectangular piece of paper.
Attach three braids of yarn to form the main body of the hat, and add a pom-pom on top.
If you use yarn in various colors, the wall decorations will look lively and fun.
Stained-glass-style Christmas tree
This stained-glass-style Christmas tree is perfect for a festive wall decoration.
It’s arranged to be easy to make with children.
Since it uses everyday materials, you can create it casually—why not give it a try? Cut black construction paper into star, circle, and Christmas tree shapes to make the stained-glass frames.
Place those pieces between laminating sheets, process them, and color them with permanent markers.
Finally, attach crumpled aluminum foil to the back, and it’s complete! Have fun using your imagination as you decide which colors to use.
Magnetic Fukuwarai
Let’s play with magnet sheets and a whiteboard! Here are some ideas for magnetic Fukuwarai.
Fukuwarai is one of Japan’s traditional games, typically enjoyed during New Year’s celebrations.
It’s a unique game where you place facial parts—eyes, nose, mouth, ears, eyebrows—onto a face in the correct spots while keeping your eyes closed.
This time, let’s make a version using magnet sheets.
What you’ll need: magnet sheets, a whiteboard, a pencil, paper, construction paper, scissors, a craft knife, and double-sided tape.
This should also help solve the common problem of pieces shifting out of place while you play!
A tissue paper igloo
Let’s use tissue paper to create a snow-made kamakura (igloo-like snow hut) on a sheet of colored construction paper.
First, cut paper into the shape of a kamakura and glue it onto the colored paper base.
Then crumple pieces of tissue paper into little balls and glue them around the kamakura shape.
Inside the kamakura, make and glue cute animals, a cozy kotatsu (heated table with a blanket), and some mandarins on top of the kotatsu using colored paper.
To depict snow around the kamakura, dip a cotton swab in paint and stamp it lightly to make dot patterns.
This way, you can express fluffy, snowy tissue paper textures and add a three-dimensional feel.