[Childcare] Winter Projects You’ll Want to Try! Recommended Craft Ideas

How to make a fun Fukuwarai

Fukuwarai Craft Full of Stimuli for Growth☆ January/Winter Craft Book: “We Made Funny Faces” ~For 2- and 3-Year-Olds~ [Nursery School/Kindergarten]

Here’s a craft idea for “Fukuwarai,” a traditional New Year’s game.

This version uses a daruma motif, letting you enjoy the game while you make it.

First, glue a daruma body—cut from construction paper—onto a backing sheet.

Then cut out the parts for the eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows, and cheeks.

Put on a blindfold and enjoy playing Fukuwarai by placing the parts on the face.

Glue the parts where they land, and decorate the empty areas of the backing sheet with flowers.

Finally, use crayons to draw the flower centers and the daruma’s patterns to complete your craft.

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Let’s make a Fukuwarai and play!

[For 4-year-olds] Laugh together! Let’s make and play Fukuwarai!

How about enjoying a classic New Year’s game, fukuwarai? Have the children draw and make the base sheet and facial parts however they like using construction paper and crayons.

By creating them themselves, the kids can grasp what the finished face should look like, and after playing fukuwarai they won’t be able to stop laughing! It might be even funnier if you make it as a self-portrait.

It’s perfectly fine if the fukuwarai face doesn’t turn out “well,” so why not encourage the kids by saying, “Make a funny face on purpose!”

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Draw with colored pencils! Cute horse

[Colored Pencil Drawing] How to Draw a Horse | Year of the Horse | New Year Illustration | New Year’s Card Illustration

It’s a fun idea to draw and color while capturing a horse’s characteristics.

For the infant class, let caregivers or teachers make a rough sketch, and then try coloring it with paints, colored pencils, or crayons.

Choosing colors freely and tracing lines can be very stimulating.

For the preschool class, try drawing while looking at picture books or encyclopedias, or draw the horse you imagine and aim to finish it by coloring with colored pencils! In the video, they intentionally draw on textured paper to create a certain atmosphere—that’s a nice touch too.

Make It with Resist Painting! Gloves and Hat

Crayon Resist Painting: Winter Craft for Ages 3 and Up

Are you familiar with the crayon-resist technique? It’s a method where you paint watercolor over a drawing made with white crayon, and the paint is repelled by the crayon so the drawing emerges.

Because you can barely see what you’ve drawn in white crayon, applying the paint can lead to surprisingly delightful results.

Try drawing on colored construction paper cut into winter-themed shapes like scarves, hats, and gloves.

If you plan to display the artwork, you can mount it on a backing board afterward.

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Cute! How to draw a horse

Among animals, many people find horses particularly difficult to depict in illustrations.

Unlike dogs or cats, they aren’t animals we see up close every day, and drawing just the face—let alone the whole body—raises the difficulty quite a bit.

So here, we’ll introduce an easy way to draw a horse! Surprisingly, you start with the ears.

Draw two ears, connect the space between them, and then sketch a longer outline for the head.

The key to making it look like a horse is to add the mane and pay attention to how you draw the nose.

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New Year’s cards made with stencils

If you’re not good at drawing, try using stencils! With stencils, you just dab ink over a stencil sheet with a sponge, so even kids can easily create illustrations.

You can buy stencil sheets, but you can also make your own by punching shapes out of a clear file with a craft punch.

Think about the kind of illustration you want as you design with your stencil sheet.

Adding patterns or drawing faces on top with a pen will give your illustration a more polished, next-level finish.

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Shishimai (lion dance) made with cardboard stamps

Roll up a strip of cardboard, dip it in ink, and stamp it! It creates a pattern that looks like a shishimai (lion dance) design.

Stamp several times on green construction paper to make the pattern, and once the ink dries, cut it into the shape of an ema plaque.

Then, glue on facial parts made from construction paper.

After the shishimai is finished, paste it onto a postcard to complete your New Year’s card! When making the face, choose steps that suit the child’s age, like drawing the eyes and teeth with crayons.

If there’s blank space on the postcard, try adding New Year-themed stickers or drawing some pictures.

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