How To Make Fidget Mats For Dementia Patients

Making one of your own doesn t have to be too difficult.

How to make fidget mats for dementia patients.

Next we gather up these supplies and fill tote bags with goodies. 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. Sadly she died of a dementia related illness in september 2017.

Plus the mats help focus their attention stimulate senses exercise hand muscles and entertain users. These easy to sew activity mats help sooth the agitated fidgeting of people with dementia or autism. Fidget quilts for alzheimer s and related dementia making fidget quilts blankets mats aprons bags. How to make a snuggle bear fidget toy.

Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s patients. Some of the supplies are donated by neighbors and the community. We take these supplies home and sew the objects onto the mats. Making fidget quilts for alzheimer s patients.

My mother in law wendy was a great knitter. Free tutorials and ideas tips on making a fidget quilt. 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. She used to make knitted toys for children in the local hospital.

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. I like to think that she would have loved snuggle bear too. The size of your fidget blankets is up to you. First we purchase cloth place mats and supplies.

Dementia has touched the lives of my family and friends. Time to make a fidget lap or table mat or fidget quilt.