Last year for girl’s camp we set up a certification fair, or expo, kind of like if you’ve ever been to a running and fitness expo where you go to all of the different booths, hear about the company, and try out something fun at the booth. You can check out all of the details, activities, and instructions for our certification fair here. And if you need some more great certification ideas, check out my certification Olympics from a few years ago!
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One of the certifications for 1st level campers is to learn what goes in a basic first aid kit. To make the learning process a little easier, I created a roll a first aid kit game (inspired by this roll a reindeer game) where they had to roll numbers on a dice that corresponded with things that go into a basic first aid kit (like this one
). As they rolled each number, they were able to add that item to their own little first aid kit and once they rolled all the items, they were done.
Make sure to pass off certification that you’re still teaching the girls what goes into the first aid kit, but this is a way to add a little more fun to an otherwise not so exciting certification.
For our mini first aid kits, I used empty film canisters
that I ordered via Amazon. I added a little label to the front (free printable one to download here) and then the girls filled each of them with the following:
- Bandaids
– three different sizes - Safety Pins
- Prep Pads
- Gauze Pads
- Antibiotic Cream
- Hard Candy
– three different sizes
I put each of the different items into bags that were labeled with these free printable labels letting the girls know how many of each to put in their first aid kit (2 safety pins, 1 candy, etc.) and had YCLs and a leader manning the station to help the girls if they had any questions. You can download the printable bag labels here or by clicking on the image below.
You can download the free printable roll a first aid kit cards here. Or click on the image below to download a PDF of four cards to print. Since you’ll likely have multiple people using the cards, I recommend printing on white card stock and laminating (this is my favorite laminator!
).
<<Download the entire set of Roll A First Aid Kit>>
And don’t forget to check out the rest of the details from how we setup our certification fair and all of the certification activities we did last year! Click on the images below to be taken directly to the posts.
Kassie says
Love this idea and your Olympics idea! Just wondering if you posted the rest of your certification fair yet or if you would. Because I would love to use some more of your ideas. Thanks
BritniV says
Kassie, I’m still in the process of posting all of my certification ideas but I can email them to you if you’d like! You can also use any of the ideas from my certification Olympics here too – http://www.playpartyplan.com/2014/07/girls-camp-certification-activity-ideas.html.
Tobie Stevens says
I would also love to see the other certification ideas that you came up with. Thanks!
BritniV says
Details on setup – http://www.playpartyplan.com/2016/05/girls-camp-certification-ideas-certification-fair-printables.html
Details on the other activities – http://www.playpartyplan.com/2016/05/girls-camp-certification-fair-activity-ideas.html
Free printable certification blackout cards – http://www.playpartyplan.com/2016/05/camp-certification-cards.html
Certification Olympics (an entire other set of activities and ideas) – http://www.playpartyplan.com/2014/07/girls-camp-certification-activity-ideas.html
Jenna says
This is such a cute idea! I loved it so much, I ordered everything right away! One problem… it doesn’t all fit in the film canister!! 🙁
Did you use a bigger sized canister for this activity??
Thank you for posting!
BritniV says
What isn’t fitting? We ordered ours in bulk, so we did single use antibiotic creams but everything else fit for us. I ordered regular size film canisters (the ones linked to in the post), so not sure why it’s not fitting. What isn’t fitting?
Jenna says
I don’t know if my gauze packaging is bigger than the one you might have received, but there isn’t any way that I can fit 2 of those on top of everything else. 🙁 It’s definitely not your fault, I’m just trying to see if I made a mistake. I will just need to find a solution by next week 🙂
Thank you
Amber Whites says
Using the dice game printable for cub scouts! thanks so much!
Jamie McDonald says
Did you put the canister labels on stickers or did you glue them? I was thinking it would be much easier to print them on sticker labels but I was wondering the size? Thank you
BritniV says
I just used standard film canisters Jamie. I don’t remember the exact size but if you look up dimensions of film canisters you should be able to figure it out from there. Hope that helps!
Ann says
I love the first aid game. Such a cute idea. Would it be possible to change one of the items on the list? I’d love to get the original to adapt it to our unit. Is that possible?