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[For Seniors] DIY Hand Rehabilitation Tools to Strengthen Fingertips: A Collection of Handmade Ideas

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Daily rehabilitation exercises performed by seniors contribute to both mental and physical health.

Finger rehabilitation in particular is recommended, as it provides beneficial stimulation to the brain.

In this article, we introduce handmade items that are great for finger rehabilitation for older adults.

With the goal of improving finger function, we’ve gathered easy-to-incorporate, DIY ideas for everyday life.

You can easily get the materials at 100-yen shops, so why not give them a try? If you’re thinking about making your own rehab items, be sure to use this as a reference.

For Seniors: Rehab tools to train fingertip dexterity. Handmade Idea Collection (11–20)

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When you go shopping, you pay money and think about the prices of items, right? Let’s turn those actions—using your hands to take out and put away money, and calculating item prices—into a training activity.

Place the appropriate amount of money on cards that show products and their prices.

Checkout-style practice is effective for finger dexterity and brain training.

It’s also useful for older adults who want to try going shopping in real life.

Many seniors say they want to go shopping, but if someone hasn’t shopped for several years, it can be hard to do it smoothly right away.

Why not gradually get used to shopping and paying by practicing handling money?

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Flip game using bottle caps and chopsticks

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Flip game using bottle caps and chopsticks

This rehabilitation tool also serves as practice for using chopsticks.

Prepare an egg carton, the same number of plastic bottle caps as the wells in the carton, and a pair of disposable chopsticks.

The trainee will use the chopsticks to flip the bottle caps as if they were turning takoyaki.

Ideally, for chopstick practice, you would use both chopsticks to flip the caps, but it’s also fine to use just one and hook the cap to flip it—whatever is easier to start with.

You can try the more difficult method later.

It’s also recommended to draw pictures on the caps and flip them like a game of Concentration (memory).

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Insert the back closure into the hole.

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Insert the back closure into the hole.

If your training tools are simple and portable, it’s easy to do the exercises anytime.

Also, the key to training is to keep at it every day.

Being able to do it casually makes it easier to keep going.

This time, I’ll introduce tools that use a bag closure clip and an empty instant noodle cup.

A bag closure clip is the light blue or white plastic piece that comes on a loaf of bread.

Make a hole in the bottom of the instant noodle cup and put the bag closure clips inside.

Pinching the small, thin clips can be expected to help train the fingertips.

Competing for time or turning it into a team match could make it enjoyable for older adults as well.

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Finger Dexterity and Coordination Training Goods

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Finger Dexterity and Coordination Training Goods

Isn’t the precise, delicate movement of chopsticks an important action in everyday life? This is a rehabilitation tool that trains fine finger movements through such chopstick motions.

First, prepare a wooden board and mark a border 1 centimeter inside the outer edge.

Insert pins with handles along the markings.

Once you’ve inserted a total of 16 pins, you’re ready to go.

Use disposable chopsticks to hook rubber bands onto the pins.

Freely loop colorful rubber bands around the pins to create various designs.

It also seems fun to use a sample as a reference and think about how to hook the bands to recreate it.

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Dollar store brain-training puzzle

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This is a simple puzzle game made by combining wooden sticks and colored stickers.

Place two sticks side by side, lay several stickers across both sticks, and cut each sticker down the middle with a craft knife.

Make several of these stick pairs to complete the puzzle set.

Players then enjoy the game by finding the two sticks whose half-circle sticker halves match perfectly.

You can adjust the difficulty by increasing the number of sticks or the number of stickers applied to each stick, so it’s also recommended to prepare a variety of patterns.

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Finger exercises attaching clothespins

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Let’s use clothespins to train finger dexterity.

Write the names of colors on thick paper or cardboard.

Then clip a clothespin of the same color onto the written color.

Opening a clothespin requires a bit of finger strength, so it helps train the fingers.

Using your fingers to open clothespins is also said to stimulate brain activity.

This was even mentioned in the story of a mother—famous some time ago—who helped her son get into the University of Tokyo.

She reportedly used clothespin clipping as a kind of brain training for her children.

You could also time how long it takes to clip them and turn it into a game to make it more exciting.

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Finger exercises with plastic bottle caps

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Finger exercises with plastic bottle caps

Here’s a recreational activity you can make using the many plastic bottle caps that tend to pile up.

Place the caps on a base sheet, matching each cap with the same kanji written on the sheet, making sure not to make mistakes.

Kanji sets that are hard to distinguish—like the fish or tree radicals series—are recommended.

Because players identify the characters while pinching the caps with their fingers, it trains both the brain and fine motor skills.

Give it a try—make it and play with it! You could also turn it into a game by pairing addition problems with their answers.

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