How To Make Fidget Mats For Dementia Patients

Free tutorials and ideas tips on making a fidget quilt.

How to make fidget mats for dementia patients.

Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s patients. I like to think that she would have loved snuggle bear too. She used to make knitted toys for children in the local hospital. Next we gather up these supplies and fill tote bags with goodies.

Updated 2016 alzheimer s fidgeting and mojo uprising. We take these supplies home and sew the objects onto the mats. Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s patients. Time to make a fidget lap or table mat or fidget quilt.

My mother in law wendy was a great knitter. Fidget quilts for alzheimer s and related dementia making fidget quilts blankets mats aprons bags. How to make a snuggle bear fidget toy. 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.

First we purchase cloth place mats and supplies. We call them fidget mats. Sensory mats or fidget blankets provide a soothing and stimulating activity for people living with dementia or recovering from strokes. These easy to sew activity mats help sooth the agitated fidgeting of people with dementia or autism.

Some of the supplies are donated by neighbors and the community. Free tutorials and ideas. Making one of your own doesn t have to be too difficult. The size of your fidget blankets is up to you.

Plus the mats help focus their attention stimulate senses exercise hand muscles and entertain users. Sadly she died of a dementia related illness in september 2017.