Easy Crafts for Elderly?

Question

Any craft ideas for elderly? My mother visits the nursing home every Saturday and does crafts with the elderly. She has ran out of ideas and would like some suggestions. Please remember that they cannot use their hands that well or work with really small objects. We only are allowed to be there for an hour and a half, so something that doesn't take a lot of time.

Answer 1

What kind of money are you looking at. Straw hat decorating. Different sized Straw hats are wonderful for the women. The flowers can be glued to the ribbon, then tied around the brim. If glue is not good for the group, use a styrofoam form insert, and have the flowers stuck into the hat and styrofoam.

There are a lot of ways to adapt to the abilities of the hands.

Clay is good for the hands to work with. Even play do.
Painting planter pots, wreath decorating, cake decorating, it can be a cardboard "cake." flower arranging, Card making with rubber stamps, quilt block cutting, soap stone carving. Christmas is coming up, so making Christmas gifts for the youth, and their children is good, like making bath salts-(1 cup soda baking and 1 quart Epsom salts, with essential oils and food coloring in a pretty jar.) Silhouettes, shadow boxes, a hundred things. Paper heart chains, children chains, paper chains, with decorated paper... Finger painting, salt painting, bottle painting, coin and stamp collecting,

I am writing a book on crafts. Look up crafts in the library.
People get paid good money to do this at nursing homes. You can play music from their era as you do these crafts. Get as many senses stimulated as you can.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

Decorating straw hats with flowers and feathers:have them pick things they think represent them or represent some event they remember fondly, or have them make them for each other, and take pictures with them on.

They can make book marks: cut some rectangle, round, or, square pieces out of card stock and let them decorate them with drawings or words for book marks. Laminate or cover with wide tape to make them last.

They have bird house kits, where you can paint and decorate the houses. That would be fun too.

Answer 7

Hi:

For the Men

Oil painting, model building , pencil drawing , paper cutting,Paper Mache. Paper quilling ,Knitting,Crocheting, Leather craft, woodcrafts like whittling, Scrollsawing, metal working glass etching,

For the women:

knitting,crocheting,needlework,qulting,rug making,dressmaking, pottery,Water Painting, Scrapbooking,Paper quilling,card making, book making, enameling, Paper making and working


That all I can think of.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Plastic canvas is really easy to do. You can make calendars,place mats, anything really.All you need is plastic canvas, wool and some patterns. Hopefully this helps you.

Answer 10

These are 2 sites I've used. Some ideas might not work for seniors, but many do. Search for ones you might find appropriate for your seniors.
http://www.craftown.com/projects.htm
http://www.craftbits.com