Build an emergency preparedness kit
In the instance that a disaster affects you or your area, you may need to survive on your own after an emergency. Parents, educators, and child care providers who can recognize the physical, developmental, and emotional characteristics of children that make them more vulnerable will be able to more readily help children stay safe in emergencies.
To teach children the basics of staying safe in emergencies, child care providers, and educators can include children in the activity of making an emergency preparedness-kit. An emergency preparedness-kit can be essential to ensuring you and your family’s well-being. A emergency preparedness-kit is a GO kit that is tailored to the needs of you and your family, based on your family’s survival needs for 72-hours.
Have you built your emergency preparedness kit yet?
Basics to include are:
- Important Documents
- Prescription Medications
- Water, minimum of one gallon per person per day
- Non-perishable food, 3 day supply
- NOAA weather radio (extra batteries)
- First Aid kit
- Local maps
- Matches (in waterproof container)
- Blankets
- Personal hygiene items
- Manual can opener (if needed)
- Extra change of clothes (based on climate)
- Sanitizing wipes
- Dust masks
- Whistle, bell, bullhorn (to signal for help)
- Sanitation
- Battery-operated/crank flashlight
- Cellphone
- Books, Games, or other activities for children
