First Aid Resources
First Aid is a favourite thing to learn for lots of Girl Guides! Plus, its about both service and guiding traditions, and it's a very useful life skill!
Campfire Planning Sheet
This is a useful sheet I use with my Guides to help them with campfire planning. They can see the different stages of the campfire & it provides some ideas about what times of campfire items should go in each stage.
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With younger Girl Guides, we have a picture that goes with every song they learn. They can pick the pictures for songs they would like (we keep a laminated set), and blue tack them onto a laminated A3 campfire plan. Then we can display this near the campfire circle so Guides know what is next and where we are up to.
First Aid for Younger Guides
I led a 5-7 year old Guide unit for a number of years, and found there wasn't really many existing resources that were age appropriate - both in terms of activity complexity (and things like needing to be good readers) and themes.
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First Aid was one of those areas that there wasn't much to work with, so I put my own program together. It covers lots of basics for the types of first aid 6 years olds tend to need (bandaids, bumps, small burns), as well as emergency essentials at an appropriate level.
Fake Wounds
These instructions for creating fake wounds have been in our region since forever. Literally. It's not my creation, but just a great treasure to share.
I defiantly did this in my first year of Guiding using the same instructions, and even remember my mum getting angry because I had come home with a graze (complete with embedded gravel) from "playing helicopter in the carpark" & the leaders hadn't cleaned it up!
Mini First Aid Booklet
This is a little A6 folded booklet with first aid basics for Guides. It was created for Guides to put in Personal First Aid Kits to take with them hiking and to other Guide events. We did a extra long meeting of first aid training to go with it, covering all the contents and more.
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We also purchased all the equipment for their personal first aid kits & made little bags for them to keep them in, so we were sure everyone had all the things they needed.
