Handicrafts with old people

What you need:

• toothpick
• Sweet chestnuts
• Horse chestnuts
• scissors
• flat round bowl made of bast
• dried leaves
• 1 marble
• 1 shoebox lid
• Poster color in different colors

Organization of handicraft lessons with old people

• When crafting with the elderly, consider the physical limitations that can come with age. Handcraft It is therefore best to use large objects and avoid small handicraft templates with complicated shapes and tiny objects such as beads.
• Older people often have a shorter span of concentration. Therefore, plan the handicrafts for about half an hour to an hour so that it doesn't take too long. You can also take short breaks in between.
• Prepare what you want to craft with people so you can show them the finished product as a guide. So the old people know how their handicraft products should look afterwards.
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• Prepare everything so that you don't have to leave the elderly people behind while doing handicrafts to buy something that you have forgotten. This will irritate some old people and discourage them from doing handicrafts.
• If you want to make something from several individual parts, you can prepare some of them in advance. For example, if you want to make flowers out of construction paper, you can paint or even cut out the green stems beforehand. This saves time and is a relief for those who find it difficult to cut out.


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• If you are doing handicrafts with several elderly people, you can also do this with a division of labor. One person can draw the outlines for something on construction paper, another cut them out, and yet another person can glue the different parts on.
• What you tinker with the elderly shouldn't be too complicated, but rather consist of a few steps. It is ideal if these crafting steps are similar, then they are easier to remember. For example, the elderly can cut out several different things and then stick them on.

Make a bird out of chestnuts

1. Prepare for the crafting by drilling holes in the fresh edible and horse chestnuts with the toothpicks. For the chestnuts, the hole should be on the opposite side of the tapered end.
2. Then cut off the pointed ends of the toothpicks in case it is likely that the old people you are trying to tinker with will injure themselves from them because of poor fine motor skills.
3. Also, collect beautiful, colorful foliage and let it dry.
4. For each person, put a sweet chestnut and a horse chestnut on the table, each with a toothpick.
5. Spread the foliage in the center of the table and put a raffia bowl on the table for each.
6. To make a bird, the old people put the toothpick into the horse chestnut and then stick the chestnut as a bird's head on the other end of the toothpick. The pointed end represents the beak.
7. Then let the elderly drape leaves in the bowl to create a "nest" in which to put their bird.

To make it even more beautiful, you can make two or three more birds and add them to the first bird in the nest.

Train your dexterity while doing handicrafts

1. Get a shoebox and marble for each participant.
2. Turn the shoebox lid upside down and then put two to three small dabs of poster paint on different parts of the lid.
3. Now place a marble next to the blobs of paint in the lid and let the marble roll through the paint by moving the lid. The smaller you make the blobs of paint, the harder it will be to hit them with the marble. Spread the paint in different spots that aren't close together so the old people actually have to coordinate their movements to help everyone Colours to hit with the marble.
4. The result is a beautiful, colorful picture and with the hand movements the dexterity is trained at the same time.
5. When the picture is ready, take the marble out of the shoebox lid. It only served to distribute the paint.