Due to COVID regulations in my Girl Scout council, any time I do an activity that requires supplies, my Scouts need to have individual supply packs made up.
We'll be working on the First Aid badge at this month's meetings; one of the activities to earn this badge involves making up a mini first aid kit, which is great timing between heading back to in-person school and the summer coming up, plus the fact that my scouts are all 5th graders bound for middle school next year, so having a small first aid kit that they can stash in a purse or backpack will be especially useful.
I shopped for supplies using the list found in
this blog post - the girls will pack their kits into travel soap cases, as suggested in the post.
I bought the following:
- single-use packets of hand sanitizer (50)
- single-use packets of antibiotic ointment (50)
- single-use packets of burn cream (50)
- a box of 300 assorted adhesive bandages
- 12 permanent markers (each Girl Scout gets 1 to write "FIRST AID" and her name on her soap case)
- 8 travel soap cases (each Girl Scout gets 1 to use as a fairly sturdy, waterproof holder for her first aid kit)
I will divide the supplies among 6 quart-sized zip top baggies (with an instructions flyer included in each bag) prior to our assembly meeting so each girl has her own items and we won't have to sanitize the markers between uses (this is in the current council protocols despite increased evidence that fomite spread is exceedingly rare.)
Since we have also earned the First Aid badge on the Brownie level, I have some left over supplies like a box of individually-wrapped alcohol prep pads, that I can include as well.
As I was concerned about running out of space inside the cases, I didn't include larger items like prep towels, cotton swabs, or gauze pads.
Am I missing anything else?