How to pack a Rescue Pack with your kids

Future Ticia here, I’m going through and updating my old posts, and I found this Rescue Pack post and decided to update it with more of how to pack a rescue pack with your kids because I didn’t really talk about how I made the Rescue Packs. So, here you go, how to pack a rescue pack with your kids.

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Where we got our Rescue Packs

As I’ve said before two of my kids are obsessed with Diego and somewhat with Dora (though she’s never seen Dora, how does she know all the character names?). They’ve been bugging me to make them rescue packs like Diego and Dora have. So, I finally found all the stuff I needed and started working on them.

Now, in my case, I sewed their rescue packs using a Simplicity pattern, and added eyes and a smile, because of course in the Go Diego Go show it talks.

Everything talks.

But, if you don’t want to sew a backpack, pick up a toddler backpack. Or if you want an actual Go Diego Go backpack, you can pay $45, that’s CRAZY!

How is this a Works for Me Wednesday post you ask? Here’s how this works for me, what’s in the backpacks.

How to pack a rescue pack for kids

1.Small plastic box with bandaids and hand sanitizer
2. A small water spray bottle for rinsing dirt off hands
3. kid binoculars
4. a small snack
5. various other stuff they claim they need.

The rules I have for the backpacks are:

1. You have to carry the backpack, so don’t put too much in it.
2. It stays in the car, it does not go in the house to get lost. They have other backpacks that can serve that purpose.

This leads to the other part of my post. It’s very useful to have a small backpack you can tell your child to pack with toys and carry with them. We ended up in the car repair shop for 2 hours and it was much more manageable because they each packed their own backpacks with some toys and a book.

More preschool fun!

Since I wrote this when the kiddos were preschool, I’m gonna add in a few preschool ideas.

• Picnic in the Family Room
• Rabbit preschool unit
• Homemade memory game
• Me on the Map: Reading a map lesson
• How spilled yogurt taught me about homeschooling