How To Make Fidget Mats For Dementia Patients

Next we gather up these supplies and fill tote bags with goodies.

How to make fidget mats for dementia patients.

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. My mother in law wendy was a great knitter. 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. Time to make a fidget lap or table mat or fidget quilt. I like to think that she would have loved snuggle bear too. Sensory mats or fidget blankets provide a soothing and stimulating activity for people living with dementia or recovering from strokes.

We take these supplies home and sew the objects onto the mats. We call them fidget mats. How to make a snuggle bear fidget toy. Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s patients.

She used to make knitted toys for children in the local hospital. Free tutorials and ideas. First we purchase cloth place mats and supplies. Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s patients.

Free tutorials and ideas tips on making a fidget quilt. Fidget quilts for alzheimer s and related dementia making fidget quilts blankets mats aprons bags. The size of your fidget blankets is up to you. These easy to sew activity mats help sooth the agitated fidgeting of people with dementia or autism.

Dementia has touched the lives of my family and friends. Sadly she died of a dementia related illness in september 2017.