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Activity Descriptions

supplies

At home

Help your Girl Scout by letting her practice her first aid skills with you.

Create an emergency plan of action for your family at home.

Help your Girl Scout create a 911 call sheet with the facts she learned.

Snack

While enjoying snack, you can have the girls play a storytelling game with a first aid theme, using what

they have learned. Start off the story by saying, “One day I was taking a walk outside when…” then

instruct the girls to continue the story, one girl after another.

Example: “One day I was taking a walk outside when…(next person) I decided I wanted to

go camping…(next person) as I was went to get my backpack…(next person) I fell and

scraped my knee…(next person) it hurt really bad so I…”

Game (10 min)

 “911, What is Your Emergency?”

1. Ask the girls if they know what 911 means and its purpose.

2. Talk with the girls about the role of 911, how 911 can help and what they should do when calling 911.

Girls should know the following information to provide 911, as well as try to stay as calm as possible

throughout the call:

Name

Phone number

§ What happened

What’s wrong

Where they are

How many people are hurt

What is already being done

3. After reviewing the general 911 information, instruct the girls to role-play calls to 911 with one another.

Have one girl pretend to be the 911 dispatcher and the other girl pretend to be the caller and then switch.

Toy phone

Other props

Game (15 min)

911 Quiz Game

1. Have the girls stand in a group in the middle of the room. Identify one end of the room as “Call 911” and

the other end of the room as “Do Not Call 911”.

2. Instruct the girls that you will be giving them an emergency situation and they need to determine

when they should or should not call 911. After hearing the situation, they must go to the side of the

room they believe is the correct answer.

Examples when you should call 911:

o Someone becomes suddenly dangerously ill

o Someone crashes a car in front of you

o You notice smoke in your home or that of a neighbor

o You hear gunshots

o You see a violent physical fight

Examples when you should not call 911:

o You notice graffiti on your home or in your neighborhood

o You have a question about the risks of carbon monoxide poisoning but don’t suspect it in your home

o You or a family member has a minor illness

o Your bike is missing when you come home

o Your pet is missing

o You think a neighbor’s animal may be neglected

3. After each situation and girls determine their answers, ask the girls why they chose or did not choose to call 911 then reveal the correct answer. You can also ask the girls whom they should call if the

situation should go to a different authority and is not a call for 911.

Girl Scouts River Valleys

Game (25 min)

First Aid Friends

1. Using the basic first aid remedy instruction sheets, show the girls how to give care for basic injuries.

2. Have the girls practice giving simple injury care on the First Aid Friend (stuffed animals or dolls.)

3. After practicing basic care, the girls can create a story where their First Aid Friend gets one of the

injuries and act out how they are going to help them.

Print off basic first aid remedy instructions plan.

Basic first aid remedy instructions

Bandage tape or masking tape

Different size bandages

Popsicle sticks

String, ribbon, or strips of cloth

Dish or medium-sized towels or blankets

Gauze or similar absorbent material

Stuffed animals or dolls