Kim Weissenborn / Painter

Creating Paper Plate Flowers with People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease

The “Birds of a Feather” activity is a simple, colorful project that encourages painting, cutting, gluing, and personal expression, while providing opportunities for interaction, laughter, and music.

Make Your Own Saint Patrick's Day Shamrock Pins! Saint Patrick’s Day is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than by creating something festive you can wear—and maybe even share with a friend?

Art Projects for people with Alzheimer's.

Get ready for a fun, sparkly North Star activity for seniors with Alzheimer's that brings out creativity, joy, and a little bit of magic. Perfect for seniors with Alzheimer’s, this activity is all about making beautiful stars, celebrating achievements, and sharing pride in every glittering creation! Instructions: Step by Step Trace Your Star Use chalk and your star template. Supplies Black construction paper Silver or gold paint White paint Chalk Star templates Glue Glitter

People with Alzheimer's love this project. I am consistently thinking of ways to simplify my art projects so that the lovely people I work with can feel good through the whole process. This was a huge success because I went step by step and did much of the cutting myself ahead of time. Instructions: Cut out moon from white paper and glue to dark blue construction paper with glue stick. Students draw spiral around moon with white colored pencil.

Great project for people with Alzheimers. They love how the colors blend when dropped on watercolor paper. Supplies watercolor paper brown and black construction paper black markers googly eyes Dick Blick liquid watercolors watercolor brushes scissors glue sticks Instruction Before class Make your own art piece first. ( It is good to have something to show reminding them along the way what they are doing). Draw feather shapes, feet , beak and waddle on back of

VanGogh is an artist who is famous enough that some will remember his name. I like to do a project on one of his paintings because his style is so forgiving and fun. Supplies: Brown and Black/Gray construction paper Pastels - blue, yellow, black, gray, white Glue Elmers or Tacky chalk Instructions: 1. Cut out silhouette of foreground in black or gray paper4. 2. Draw shape of tree and church in chalk so the participants can visualize the scene better. 3. Show VanGogh's paint

For people with Alzheimer's, a pumpkin is an easy symbol to conjure up from the memory bank, making it a breeze to celebrate and make art. I begin by asking the participants what things we see on Halloween. They come up with a few things, witches, candy, etc. . I show my sample pumpkin and explain that we will be doing a mosaic of a pumpkin. Instructions: 1. Hand out orange paper and have them cut pieces (Cut pieces ahead of time for those that cannot use scissors) Fold pap

1. Painting Loosely is a State of Mind. Before beginning a painting you must consciously think about loosening up. Tell yourself that this time you will approach the subject matter with reckless abandon. It is essential to be positive. Tell yourself that something wonderful and magical is about to happen - then make it happen! 2. Stand Up to Paint. Stand up to paint if you are able. Standing keeps you at arms length from the painting surface, and forces you to move your arms

I wanted to teach a little about Monet and have the participants remember by doing a version of his painting. Supplies watercolor paper liquid watercolors, blues and greens salt oil pastel brushes water containers Instructions: 1. Show the participants a photograph of Monet's bridge. 2. Ask questions about the painting to get them to pay attention to the details so that the painting process will be more meaningful. 3. Draw bridge on watercolor paper ahead of time in pencil.

How to make a Witchy Craft. 1. Make template with big black marker for face and nose on green card stock. 2. Precut nose slit with x-acto knife. 3. Make template for hat on purple paper 4. Have participants cut along black lines 5. Fold nose on dash line. 6. Slide nose through slit on face, tape down. 7. Glue face onto black card stock 8. Cut hair on horizontal, glue to face, crimp 9. Cut out hat , glue onto head 1/3 down 10. Glue googley eyes. 11. Draw mouth with marker. 12.

How to make crumpled paper Trees. This is a great art project for people with Alzheimer's dementia. You can alter this to simplify, making it less stressful. Just make the cutout tree beforehand. My group loved this. Crumpling the paper made them feel empowered, something they feel less and less of as this disease progresses. I like to play music while they work. "Autumn leaves" by Nat King Cole, "Autumn in New York" by Frank Sinatra and "Early Autumn" by Johnny Mathis. I

Make Horse Sculptures from Wire - We are having an exhibit at the Vero Beach Museum of Art on Deborah Butterfield . It is a fantastic display of horses, larger than life made with metal scrap pieces and some bronze that resembles found wood pieces. The students were amazed at the way she assembled these pieces to make such beautiful sculptures. Supplies Aluminum Wire Needle Nose Pliers with Cutter Horse Skeleton Template Block of wood 10" x 4" Wood Stain Sander Drill

Magritte inspired art project. Magri tte was a surrealist who was best known for his witty and thought-provoking images and his use of simple graphics and everyday imagery.This project is perfect for kids and teens. It did not go well with people with Alzheimer's, I think they are kind of living in a surreal world and this confusing to them. I used the artist Magritte as my muse. His paintings are very intriguing and spark some interesting discussion. I got this lesson off