How To Make Fidget Mats For Dementia Patients

Time to make a fidget lap or table mat or fidget quilt.

How to make fidget mats for dementia patients.

My mother in law wendy was a great knitter. Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s 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. Plus the mats help focus their attention stimulate senses exercise hand muscles and entertain users.

We call them fidget mats. Some of the supplies are donated by neighbors and the community. Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s patients. Sadly she died of a dementia related illness in september 2017.

She used to make knitted toys for children in the local hospital. Free tutorials and ideas. Fidget quilts for alzheimer s and related dementia making fidget quilts blankets mats aprons bags. Sensory mats or fidget blankets provide a soothing and stimulating activity for people living with dementia or recovering from strokes.

Dementia has touched the lives of my family and friends. 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. Making one of your own doesn t have to be too difficult. We take these supplies home and sew the objects onto the mats.

These easy to sew activity mats help sooth the agitated fidgeting of people with dementia or autism. I like to think that she would have loved snuggle bear too. How to make a snuggle bear fidget toy. First we purchase cloth place mats and supplies.

The fidget chicks make sensory mats for dementia patients. Free tutorials and ideas tips on making a fidget quilt.