Originally Posted by 29cathie
Does anyone have any idea how to make an Alzheimer fidget blanket? I have received lap quilts and have been asked to put zippers, buttons, ribbons and anything that will keep fidget hands busy while the body is sitting in the wheelchair. I have tried to google it but only get a small picture of an apron. Thanks.
They use these at the hospital I work at. They are just small quilts, lap quilts, and you sew a large tooth zipper to two strips of fabric, turn under the edges and sew it somewhere on the quilt close to where the persons lap would be. Also you can overlap two strips of fabric, put button holes on one side, buttons on the other, so they over lap just like a blouse would button up, tuen the outer edges to the quilt close to the zipper. You can do this with snaps too. You can sew two pieces of cording to the quilt, sort of like shoe laces, to be tied into bows, like on tennis shoes. You can put eyelets in two pieces of fabric, secure a cord or string, thick cord or string for arthritic hands, so it can be laced through the eyelets, just like lacing up tennis shoes.....If this is a family member, you can make a sort of apron front so it doesn't slip off of the persons lap and add the same things to the front of the apron. These are only a few of the things I can think of right now. I'll check the lap pads we have at work and see what else they have on them......