How To Make Fidget Mats For Dementia Patients

First we purchase cloth place mats and supplies.

How to make fidget mats for dementia patients.

We call them fidget mats. Plus the mats help focus their attention stimulate senses exercise hand muscles and entertain users. 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. 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 fidget chicks make sensory mats for dementia patients. Free tutorials and ideas. Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s patients. My mother in law wendy was a great knitter.

Next we gather up these supplies and fill tote bags with goodies. Dementia has touched the lives of my family and friends. Some of the supplies are donated by neighbors and the community. How to make a snuggle bear fidget toy.

Updated 2016 alzheimer s fidgeting and mojo uprising. Sadly she died of a dementia related illness in september 2017. We take these supplies home and sew the objects onto the mats. Fidget quilts for alzheimer s and related dementia making fidget quilts blankets mats aprons bags.

Making one of your own doesn t have to be too difficult. I like to think that she would have loved snuggle bear too. Free tutorials and ideas tips on making a fidget quilt. These easy to sew activity mats help sooth the agitated fidgeting of people with dementia or autism.

The size of your fidget blankets is up to you. She used to make knitted toys for children in the local hospital.