Things To Do Together, CareGivers In-home Activities: February 2011

9.2.11

no need to buy wooden puzzles. You can create high-quality wooden ones

How to Make Wooden Puzzles: Scroll Saw Instructions and Tips - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com

If you have a scroll saw, there’s no need to buy wooden puzzles. You can create high-quality wooden puzzles of all types and sizes. Sand and paint the puzzles, and you’ve created eye-catching sturdy wooden toys that can be passed down from generation to generation.

The possibilities for making wooden puzzles are only limited by your imagination.

How to Make a Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle

Conrad Armstrong's
Artistic Wooden
Jigsaw Puzzles

MARBLES the Brain store | Games and Puzzles

Marbles: The Brain Store - Memory Games, Puzzles, Software & Books » Marbles - The Brain Store
Wonderful collection of evaluated Games and Puzzles
Did you know that working memory is also the basis for intellect?
Build memory skills (and intellectual clout) with games, software, books

I received a nice note from Ryan Jedlicka, eCommerce Manager {2.11.2011}

We have a general list of products that would apply to all stages of Alzheimers here: http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/all-products?conditions=155

When you look at that list, you can filter using the column on the left to sort by number or players.

For easy, non-frustrating activities, I would recommend these:

We have a general list of products that would apply to all stages of Alzheimers here: http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/all-products?conditions=155
When you look at that list, you can filter using the column on the left to sort by number or players.

For easy, non-frustrating activities, I would recommend these:
Brain Noodles (solo, just for fun): http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/brain-noodles

Mind Putty (solo, just for fun): http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/all-products/mind-putty-evolution-blue

Sherlock Memory Game (one or more players): http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/all-products/sherlock-deluxe-memory-game

Izzi (solo, puzzle:) http://www.marblesthebrainstore.com/izzi

I hope this list helps. Explore the site and feel free to ask any specific product questions that you might have.

Ryan Jedlicka, eCommerce Manager

Marbles: The Brain Store

877.527.2460

www.marblesthebrainstore.com

7.2.11

mind-start.com | dementia activities | cognitive activities

An interesting source of:

"* Activities that alleviate boredom, provide cognitive stimulation, and offer support for caregivers.

* Activities that work for persons at various levels of memory loss

* No preparation time required and easy to follow user guides

* Dignified, adult appearance

* Themes that spark memories

'Doing' things is human nature, gives meaning to our lives, and is an important factor in well-being. This holds true for persons with dementia."

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NOTICE!!added a bunch of new free golf games, including the challenging World Golf Tour & Pangya Golf. Don’t worry if you can’t make it out to the course to get a golf game, we’ve got you covered with more online golf games than any other site on the web."

Pogo.com - The Ultimate Online Gaming Experience!

Pogo.com - The Ultimate Online Gaming Experience!: "Play FREE online games! Welcome to Pogo.com, a great place to play free online games, including puzzle games, word games, card games, and board games. Unlike other free online games sites, we offer a variety of classic Hasbro board games like RISK, Yahtzee, Scrabble, and Monopoly. We also have popular games like Chess, Spider Solitaire, Cribbage, and Bejeweled. Make friends, play free online games and enter to win prizes at Pogo.com!"

3.2.11

Make Your Own Puzzles

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1.2.11

Set the person to work stringing garlands.
All you need is a long heavy thread and a darning needle. Try stringing cranberries, popcorn, even O-shaped cereal (Fruit Loops are cheerfully colorful).

Carer's Activities | Walking | Wendy's Blog

Walking Blog with Wendy Bumgardner
Walking Helps Aging Brains: needed for walking helped keep the brain better organized.

bingo, finger painting, marbles

using a plastic ice cream scoop to remove painted golf balls from a bowl and place them into the color-matched wells of a muffin tin

the memory skills of the game Concentration with boards like those used in a game of bingo

Finger painting, playing marbles

play dough, reciting rhymes, rolling yarn,

Model with play dough

Recite nursery rhymes

Roll yarn into a ball

Busy hands, dolls, buttons, zippers, teddy bears,

Give her dolls with zippers and buttons to play with or soft teddy bears, textured cloth, or fur to stroke.

indoor horsehoes,tops, jacks,dominoes

Play horseshoes

Play with tops or jacks

Play dominoes

fish tanks, bird feeeders, house plants

A fish tank or a window in front of a bird feeder may interest someone for hours.

Plant seeds indoors or outdoors

Activities Games | Memory Jogging Puzzles | Carcassonne | Guess Who?

Memory Jogging Puzzles
encourage problem solving, like word search, sudoku and crosswords.

board game named "Carcassonne,

Guess Who?
a two-player guessing game created by Ora and Theo Coster, also known as Theora Design

Caregiver.com; Recipes , BookClub , Stories

Caregiver.com; Resources

Sharing Wisdom: Caregivers Ideas ,Careverse ,Caregiver Interviews,Caregiver Carenotes ,Caregiving Articles ,Caregiver Support Groups ,Caregiver Recipes ,Caregiver BookClub ,Caregiver Stories

reading maps, identifying places cities

Look at a map of the United States and identify states and capitals

work with a screwdriver,
concentrating on driving screws into four holes that have been drilled in a smooth piece of wood

Sadie
places pegs of graduated sizes into their respective holes in a long wooden block.

putting together simple two-piece puzzles made from magazine photos
that have been cut out and laminated

homemade bread

Bake homemade bread

Activities Games | Ghosts, Isola

Ghosts (Finnish: Kummituspeli, Swedish: Spökspelet)
is a board game designed by Alex Randolph for two players, released in 1982 by Milton Bradley.

Isola is a two-player abstract strategy board game.
It is played on a 6x8 board

connect with old friends from service days

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