We put these together last year for the elementary school and they are called "shelter in place" kits. Each classroom has the same thing - when the list was developed it was to have food that had a long shelf life. I don't have a copy of the list anymore, but here are the things I do remember:
Flashlight & batteries (keep in ziploc bag - don't put the batteries in the flashlight as they will go bad if unused - or so we were told).
Vienna Sausages
Canned pineapple
bottled water (local distributor donated 2 1/2 gallon jugs)
paper cups
plastic sheeting & duct tape to seal windows & doors
Sam's club size of dry cereal
rubber gloves
first aid kit
First Aid Card (nurse got them for us)
Class list with phone numbers
garbage bags
The office of homeland security has a list on their website that I remember using as our starting point. Our district required that every classroom have one in it within 2 weeks, so we were pretty much put under the gun to get it done.
We fit all this stuff into large rubbermaid containers.
You can get a medium garbage can with a lid and include water and light food for 2 days, first aid kit, flashlight, radio, batteries, work gloves (for broken glass pick-up), space blankets, whistle. The first aid kit should include a disaster guide (Red Cross) and CPR info. That's a start at least.
Hope it helps
Just be sure when making emergency kits that each class has a jug of water and a box of crackers stashed in the room somewhere just in case they are confined to that room for some time. Now a days you just never know, hope it would never come to that.
Does anyone have any knowledge about classroom Emergency Kits? We have had many parents requesting them, and we are in the process of putting them together. Does anyone have good ideas about finding donations, items to include (or EXCLUDE?), asking for parental input, or anything else that we should consider? Any help would be greatly appreciated. This has turned into a HUGE undertaking.
Thanks!
