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Quilters at DeKalb County Nursing Home Donate One-Room School Quilt

Mary Emma Allen — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:19:26 +0000

Quilters at the DeKalb County Nursing Home will donate a quilt to the Northern Illinois University’s Blackwell History of Education Museum. The quilt, titled DeKalb County One-Room Schoolhouse Quilt, consists of nine squares, picturing one-room schoolhouses of DeKalb County.

Pat Barger, a volunteer at the nursing home, constructed the quilt along with 13 other quilters who meet at the nursing home weekly. Check out the link above to learn more about the quilt and the one-room schoolhouses of DeKalb County.

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Quilters at DeKalb County Nursing Home Donate One-Room School Quilt

Quick Craft Project for Alzheimer’s Patients

Mary Emma Allen — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:55:31 +0000

Before Alzheimer’s patients reach the latter stages of Alzheimer’s, they’re still able to participate in craft activities. Even then, they often enjoy watching. I had an enjoyable time working with patients at a nursing home on a scrapbooking project. Collages can be fun, too. Often while working on these projects, patients are stimulated to chat and laugh and reminisce.

Recently I came across an interesting collage type project that would be easy (because it doesn’t take long) for Alzheimer’s patients, particularly those in the earlier stages. It’s also inexpensive, often a consideration for craft activities at nursing homes or ones you’re undertaking at home.

This is Katelyn’s Gift Tags from Scraps at Stamping Mad. I realized this would be an interesting project for quilters and fabric artists, so also called attention it on my Quilting and Patchwork blog, Qulting Scraps for Patchwork Gift Tags.

If you need a rather quick, inexpensive project to use with Alzheimer’s patients, why not try either of these or create gift tags using both or mixed media? You can try stamping techniques, too…or many other gift tag ideas that are available (250 in the book below).

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Quick Craft Project for Alzheimer’s Patients

Scrapbooking for Alzheimer’s Patients

Mary Emma Allen — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:02:47 +0000

I’ve experienced some very enjoyable times with nursing home residents, some of whom had Alzheimer’s, scrapbooking and recording family memories. On one occasion, I worked with them for three successive Wednesdays on a joint scrapbooking project.

With the assistance of one of the activity aides, we pasted photos on pages to make a general scrapbook they could look at whenever they wanted. Using photos they had taken at the nursing home during various activities, we found several for each of the men and ladies participating.

The participants would choose the color of paper for their page(s), the decorations (stickers) to add, the type of scissors for cutting an edging on the photo. Most of them couldn’t cut the photos; however, if they could or wanted, we encouraged them.

Some participants came every week; others only one week. They all seemed to enjoy chatting about their pictures and the memories they evoked. After the album was finished, they liked to look for “my” page.

I found this a very enjoyable activity and had such fun working with the residents. Scrapbooking can be utilized in various ways and can include families during these sessions, making memory books for their family member.

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Scrapbooking for Alzheimer’s Patients