How To Make Fidget Mats For Dementia Patients

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How to make fidget mats for dementia patients. Fidget quilts for alzheimer s and related dementia making fidget quilts blankets mats aprons bags. I like to think that she would have loved snuggle bear too. Sadly she died of a dementia related illness in september 2017. Next we gather up these supplies and fill tote bags with goodies.

Updated 2016 alzheimer s fidgeting and mojo uprising. Plus the mats help focus their attention stimulate senses exercise hand muscles and entertain users. Making one of your own doesn t have to be too difficult. We take these supplies home and sew the objects onto the mats.

My mother in law wendy was a great knitter. The fidget chicks make sensory mats for dementia patients. Free tutorials and ideas tips on making a fidget quilt. Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s patients.

Dementia has touched the lives of my family and friends. 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. We call them fidget mats. She used to make knitted toys for children in the local hospital.

Time to make a fidget lap or table mat or fidget quilt. Sensory mats or fidget blankets provide a soothing and stimulating activity for people living with dementia or recovering from strokes. First we purchase cloth place mats and supplies. 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. Some of the supplies are donated by neighbors and the community.