Card making helps disabled adults who have trouble with lower body mobility feel successful. Card making allows them to use their hands to create beautiful greeting cards. Greeting cards provide enjoyment for the creator as well as the receiver throughout the entire year. Disabled adults improve their thinking process, creativity and fine motor skills while creating cards for various occasions and using small craft tools. Card making requires simple materials such as card stock, scrapbook paper, decorative cut-outs, scissors and glue.
Working with clay improves flexibility and strength in the hands. The act of molding clay provides a means of stress relief and relaxation. The versatility of clay provides disabled adults with the ability to create anything they can imagine. Artists benefit from creating any variety of objects including masks, figurines, small pinch pots, and larger vases and bowls. Molding a bowl, pot or other object of choice from a small clump of clay helps disabled adults feel a sense of accomplishment.
Painting enables disabled adults to strengthen their ability to make decisions. The artist must make choices about the subject and needed materials. Painting improves hand-eye coordination and self-esteem. Disabled adults suffering from a wide range of disabilities create successful paintings. Previous artists successfully created impressive pieces using hands, teeth and even toes. Painting requires any variety of materials ranging from canvas to plain paper, brushes and various types of paints.
Disabled adults with arthritis often claim that sewing or knitting helps the mobility in their hands. A wealth of patterns and kits provide disability sufferers with a range of projects from which to choose. Sewers and knitters may choose small cross-stitching kits that contain all the materials needed to complete a butterfly pattern or a Christmas ornament. Larger projects might include a quilt, an afghan or an outfit for a special child. A variety of projects provide disabled adults with the ability to create a work of art within any time frame.