For my service learning project I made a bean bag toss for Provo Nursing and Rehab. The cost of the material was about $40 total for wood, screws, nails, doll rods, paint, and a new bit for my dermal. I also had to purchase some fabric for the bean bags, some fabric glue. I used rice I had at home to fill the bean bags.
I spent about 2 hours making the final product but I spent most of my time coming up with what it would look like and troubleshooting some unforeseen problem when coming up with the design.
I asked the rehab team if there was anything that they needed in particular for the facility. Both the PT and OT department decided that they could benefit from the bean bag toss and that they were planning on making one anyway but they did not have time to do it. When I brought it everyone was so excited and really liked it. I did not get to see it in use because I did not finish it until my last day but I know beanbag tosses are good for eye hand coordination, general endurance, and gross motor movement and praxis skills in upper extremities.
The bean bag project took longer than I expected because many barriers came up during the process and it the end results look nothing like what my original design was met to be. In the beginning I wanted something light weight portable and something on wheels. I wanted to have the ability to adjust the angle of the board and attach at target board to the back as a way of grading the activity up or down.
One of the first problems I encounter was that I did not have all the tools in my home to do such a project and purchasing them would have put the budget well over $150 with most of that non-reimbursable through the Thayne Center. So I went to Home Depot and for a couple dollars extra I had them cut my wood for me. Unfortunately they can only cut the wood horizontally and vertically they could not do the diagonal cut in which I originally planed to angel the Bean bag toss. That is when I had to come up with the solution of using doll rods to angle it instead. In the end placing a target on the Bean Bag Toss looked awkward so I left it off. And the finished project was heavier and bulkier than I originally planned.
As for the bean bags I planned on sewing them but my machine broke so I went out and purchased non- latex fabric glue instead. I was surprised at how well this worked I half way thought that they would come apart. In the end I brought my project up to the rehab center a little shy about it and they loved it! The PT’s and OT all complemented it and one of the patients wanted to use it right away.
I spent about 2 hours making the final product but I spent most of my time coming up with what it would look like and troubleshooting some unforeseen problem when coming up with the design.
I asked the rehab team if there was anything that they needed in particular for the facility. Both the PT and OT department decided that they could benefit from the bean bag toss and that they were planning on making one anyway but they did not have time to do it. When I brought it everyone was so excited and really liked it. I did not get to see it in use because I did not finish it until my last day but I know beanbag tosses are good for eye hand coordination, general endurance, and gross motor movement and praxis skills in upper extremities.
The bean bag project took longer than I expected because many barriers came up during the process and it the end results look nothing like what my original design was met to be. In the beginning I wanted something light weight portable and something on wheels. I wanted to have the ability to adjust the angle of the board and attach at target board to the back as a way of grading the activity up or down.
One of the first problems I encounter was that I did not have all the tools in my home to do such a project and purchasing them would have put the budget well over $150 with most of that non-reimbursable through the Thayne Center. So I went to Home Depot and for a couple dollars extra I had them cut my wood for me. Unfortunately they can only cut the wood horizontally and vertically they could not do the diagonal cut in which I originally planed to angel the Bean bag toss. That is when I had to come up with the solution of using doll rods to angle it instead. In the end placing a target on the Bean Bag Toss looked awkward so I left it off. And the finished project was heavier and bulkier than I originally planned.
As for the bean bags I planned on sewing them but my machine broke so I went out and purchased non- latex fabric glue instead. I was surprised at how well this worked I half way thought that they would come apart. In the end I brought my project up to the rehab center a little shy about it and they loved it! The PT’s and OT all complemented it and one of the patients wanted to use it right away.