[For Seniors] Heartwarming and Cozy: Perfect Wall Decoration Ideas for Winter in Care Facilities
Winter is a season that lifts the spirits, with plenty of exciting events like Christmas, New Year’s, and Setsubun.
Many care facilities plan recreation activities to match these holidays and events.
Here, we’ll introduce wall decoration ideas that help older adults enjoy the feeling of winter even more.
They’re also perfect as craft-based recreation to make together with seniors.
We’ve gathered many pieces that capture the unique feeling of the winter season, packed with creative ideas for designs, instructions, and materials! Use these ideas as inspiration and enjoy a wonderful time indoors where it’s warm.
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[For Seniors] Heartwarming and Cozy: Perfect Wall Decoration Ideas for Winter Care Facilities (21–30)
Crane and Turtle
Since long ago, people have said, “Cranes live a thousand years, turtles ten thousand,” and both have been cherished as auspicious symbols.
They make perfect wall decorations for New Year’s and for the season when you can feel the chill of winter.
To make the turtle, use a stamp made by rolling up cardboard or similar material to print the shell pattern.
Next, turn over a deep paper plate and attach the shell you just made.
Finally, add the head and limbs to finish.
A tip for making the crane is to use tissue paper or crepe paper to create the wings.
How about decorating a care facility with heartfelt wall art that conveys wishes for longevity?
Japanese-style hanging decoration for New Year
As an idea that requires somewhat detailed work, let us introduce a New Year’s Japanese-style hanging decoration.
This involves making yakko-dako kites and cranes out of origami.
A yakko-dako is a type of kite shaped like a person in kimono with both arms spread—something you often see around the New Year.
You can also try folding other Japanese motifs like plum blossoms and fans.
If the fine work involved in making the yakko-dako is difficult, consider offering support by preparing the parts in advance.
Create the pieces with origami, cut out the finer parts with a craft knife, arrange them, and you’re done.
Hang them in your room to enjoy the look of them as if they’re flying.
Kadomatsu wall decoration
Perfectly sized for your room! Here’s an introduction to a Kadomatsu wall decoration.
Materials include origami paper, decoration balls, toothpicks, straws, wire, and more.
You’ll make the base, bamboo, fan, New Year’s pick, mochi-flowers, and nandina parts.
Once the parts are ready, insert them into a base filled with styrofoam and arrange them in a balanced way.
To finish, attach the decorated Kadomatsu to a square cork coaster covered with chirimen fabric.
The parts are easy to make by layering or rolling origami paper and inserting decoration balls onto wire, so feel free to use this idea for a New Year’s recreation activity!
ema (votive wooden plaque)
Many people may associate ema—wooden plaques on which you write wishes and dedicate them at a shrine—with the New Year.
For older adults, there may be many things they’d like to write on an ema, such as wishes for health that year or happiness for their family.
In care facilities, for example, you can create an authentic New Year atmosphere by making ema out of construction paper or origami, writing individual wishes on them, and displaying them in rooms.
It’s a perfect craft idea for January wall decorations that can make you feel happy even when looking at others’ ema.
New Year’s decoration with camellias and mizuhiki
Here’s an elegant New Year’s decoration idea using mizuhiki cords.
Prepare black construction paper, mizuhiki, beads, and felt pieces shaped like pine, bamboo, plum, and camellia.
First, cut the black construction paper into a rectangle.
Thread beads onto the mizuhiki cords and glue them onto the paper to evoke the image of a flowing river.
Next, attach the felt pine, bamboo, plum, and camellia pieces, and glue gold origami paper to the top and bottom edges of the base.
Finally, punch a hole and thread a string through it for hanging, and it’s complete.
The felt pine, bamboo, plum, and camellia pieces are made by cutting the parts from felt and gluing them together.
Winter Wall Decoration: Snow Rabbit
This is an adorable wall decoration perfect for the cold season.
By tracing a template onto construction paper and gluing on craft cotton, you can create a fluffy rabbit that looks like snow.
Its soft texture is so inviting to the touch that just looking at it warms the heart.
Use decorative pom-poms for the eyes, and attach cut origami paper for the ears to add dimension and charm.
Despite the simple materials and steps, the finished snow rabbit brings a distinctly wintry atmosphere when displayed on the wall.
New Year Rabbit in Origami
With two sheets of 5 cm × 15 cm origami paper, some tape, a marker, and stickers, you can make this easy and charming seasonal craft.
The origami rabbit stands adorably upright, and the kimono made from origami is especially vibrant.
Simply changing the colors and patterns dramatically alters the mood, making you want to create several and display them together.
You draw the face yourself with a marker, so you can enjoy different expressions—that’s part of the fun.
Give it a big smile or a slightly bashful look; this step lets the maker’s personality shine.