Think Outside Boxes Subscription Box for Wilderness First Aid

If you've been following us for any length of time, you know we're a homeschooling family. And as a family living off the grid literally right in the wilderness, we know how important it is to teach our kids survival skills. So we were thrilled when our THiNK OUTSiDE BOXES subscription box included a whole lot of first aid and emergency items.

Use Think Outside Boxes Subscription Box to Learn Wilderness First Aid

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For the past few months, we've been getting the Think Outside Boxes subscription box (use our exclusive coupon code THINK10 to save on your order). Our two youngest loved the recent First Aid Box. It arrived several weeks ago, and we've been putting it to good use.

After all, it's a long way to the nearest hospital, and it's tricky to connect with emergency services in this remote location. So we want the girls to know basic first aid. Every few days we pull out the activity booklet and work through a few pages.

We've learned how to do a D.R.A.B. assessment (Danger, Response, Airway, Breathing). We also had a long discussion about 9-1-1, which only arrived up here in late 2019.

The activities in each month's guide are a little different depending on the theme, and a good balance between fun, practical, hands-on and academic. This month the favourite activity was the emergency role play, where we all got a turn to be the patient and the emergency responder. However, learning how to bandage heads and hands took a close second!

Related: THiNK OUTSIDE BOXES Initiation Box Review & Coupon

The gang over at Think Outside Boxes really outdid themselves with this month's selection which was just chock-full of first aid wilderness survival gear and goodies. Some of the kids first aid and wilderness emergency items included

• a First Aid kit with 76(!) items
• Water-resistant digital thermometer
• Outdoor survival bandana
• Elastic Bandage
• Tongue Depressors
• Water-resistant Resource Cards (How-To and info cards)

Being Prepared in the Wilderness

While we love spending time outdoors in the wilderness, we know how quickly things can go wrong. That's why we're working on equipping each child with a wilderness survival kit.

Each backpack (they came in our Initiation Box) includes basic survival gear items, including many things from the monthly THiNK OUTSIDE BOXES subscription box. We've received three boxes to date - the Initiation Box with the backpack, the First Aid Box, and the Weather Box. Watch the blog for the lowdown on that one.

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