Button Threading Activity Set – Montessori for Seniors
Button Threading Activity Set – Montessori for Seniors
AUD $39.95
Description
Four little wooden jackets, a tin’s worth of chunky coloured buttons and a few laces. Sewing on a button is a job most of our residents have done hundreds of times, and this set gives them that familiar, useful job again. It’s quick to set up on a busy floor, and it suits people who like to keep their hands busy.
I can’t count how many times I’ve watched a resident pick up a button and just know what to do with it. Most of them spent years mending cardigans, sewing buttons back on school shirts and work uniforms, and taking up hems at the kitchen table. Put a button and a lace in front of them and the hands often get going before anyone has explained a thing. That’s why I like this set. It’s a real job and not a pretend game, and it isn’t fiddly or tiring.
Why it helps
- It’s a job they recognise. Doing up and sewing on buttons is part of everyday life, and residents can tell when they’re being given something useful to do instead of something childish.
- It keeps fingers busy. Pinching a button, finding the holes and pulling the lace through give the hands gentle work at their own pace.
- There’s a bit of thinking in it if they want it. The colour cards ask them to match and follow a pattern, which is nice for residents who like a little challenge.
- Nobody can get it wrong. A button sewn on any old way is still a button sewn on, so even residents in the later stages can finish something and feel pleased with it.
How I’d use it in a session
- Start small. Give one jacket, a handful of buttons in two colours and one lace, and keep the rest in the box so the table doesn’t feel cluttered.
- Show them instead of explaining. Sew the first button on yourself, nice and slowly, then hand the lace over. “Could you do the next one for me, love?” works far better than a list of instructions.
- Bring out the cards for anyone who’s managing well, and ask them to copy the colours onto their jacket.
- Have a chat while you work. Buttons bring back stories about who did the mending at home, school uniforms and Mum’s sewing tin, so follow wherever the conversation goes.
- Try a small group. With four jackets you can sit two to four residents together, each with their own colour.
What’s included
4 wooden jacket-shaped boards (blue, green, pink and orange), a pack of colour pattern cards, a set of chunky coloured wooden buttons and threading laces.
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