An activity is designed to engage people living with dementia, especially those who worked in trades, by reconnecting them with familiar tools and tasks from their past.
Plumbers Mate Pipe Tree Activity Box
$265.00 inc. GST
Plumber’s Mate Pipe Tree Activity Box is a hands-on construction activity designed to engage individuals living with dementia. It promotes both cognitive stimulation and the development of fine motor, ocular motor, and visual perceptual skills.
This durable 40-piece set includes PVC pipes and fittings that can be easily assembled into a variety of configurations. A sturdy hardwood base with a single starting hole allows for stable vertical construction, though the pieces can also be connected freely without the base for more flexible play, completed with blue utility box.
Ideal for use at home by caregivers, in classrooms by therapy instructors, or in clinical settings by healthcare professionals, this activity supports therapeutic engagement, encourages problem-solving, and enhances coordination in a safe and enjoyable way.
Benefits:
Cognitive Benefits
- Encourages problem-solving: Deciding how pieces fit together stimulates reasoning and planning.
- Enhances memory recall: Familiar pipe fittings may evoke past experiences and help with reminiscence therapy.
- Supports sequencing and logic: Following steps to build a structure boosts cognitive processing.
Motor Skills Development
- Improves fine motor control: Handling and connecting small pieces strengthens hand and finger muscles.
- Enhances hand-eye coordination: Aligning and fitting parts together promotes motor accuracy.
- Encourages bilateral coordination: Requires use of both hands, which supports neurological integration.
Visual-Perceptual Skills
- Develops spatial awareness: Understanding how pieces fit in 3D space helps with orientation and depth perception.
- Strengthens visual tracking: Following movement and placement of pieces trains the eyes.
- Promotes shape and size differentiation: Recognising how different parts work together supports visual discrimination.
Emotional and Social Benefits
- Promotes independence: Encourages users to engage in meaningful activity on their own.
- Boosts self-esteem: Completing structures brings a sense of accomplishment.
- Fosters engagement: Can be used one-on-one or in group settings, encouraging communication and interaction.
Versatile and Safe
- Adaptable use: Suitable for home, classroom, or clinical environments.
- Safe materials: Durable PVC and hardwood are easy to handle and built to last.
- Open-ended design: Can be as simple or complex as the user is comfortable with, allowing for progressive challenge.
- Follow the provided diagrams
- Working in pairs try and match what the other is building
- One person build a shape, and then from memory have another person try and recreate it.
- See who can build the widest and/or tallest form.
- Race to see who can build a given form the quests
- Place an object (perhaps a cup) somewhere off to the side of the base and then try and build a pipe across and into or onto that object.
- To make this a bit more challenging try and do the same but over or under an obstacle.
- Pattern book with 18 diagrams to follow.
- Includes 40 pieces of PVC pipe and connectors, blue zip up storage bag
- wooden base, Length of board : 23cmWidth of board : 18 cm
- 18 various illustrated instruction sheets
- Blue Utility Box
