How To Make Fidget Mats For Dementia Patients

She used to make knitted toys for children in the local hospital.

How to make fidget mats for dementia patients.

A fidget quilt or activity blanket is a lap quilt that provides sensory and tactile stimulation for the restless hands of someone with alzheimer s and or other forms of dementia add or an autism spectrum disability. The size of your fidget blankets is up to you. Fidget quilts for alzheimer s and related dementia making fidget quilts blankets mats aprons bags. How to make a snuggle bear fidget toy.

The dimensions below make a lap mat as per the photo that can be tied at the waist or positioned on a table with velcro. Free tutorials and ideas tips on making a fidget quilt. I like to think that she would have loved snuggle bear too. Dementia has touched the lives of my family and friends.

Sadly she died of a dementia related illness in september 2017. Free tutorials and ideas. Some of the supplies are donated by neighbors and the community. Plus the mats help focus their attention stimulate senses exercise hand muscles and entertain users.

My mother in law wendy was a great knitter. We call them fidget mats. First we purchase cloth place mats and supplies. Next we gather up these supplies and fill tote bags with goodies.

These easy to sew activity mats help sooth the agitated fidgeting of people with dementia or autism. Updated 2016 alzheimer s fidgeting and mojo uprising. We take these supplies home and sew the objects onto the mats. Making one of your own doesn t have to be too difficult.

Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s patients. Time to make a fidget lap or table mat or fidget quilt.