📚 KIDS' POWER-OUTAGE KIT

✔️ Keep children safe, calm, and engaged during extended power outages. Check items as you prepare.

🎨 QUIET ACTIVITIES (No Screens)

📚 Coloring books & crayons

📖 Paper books (favorites + new)

🧩 Puzzles (age-appropriate)

🃏 Card games (Uno, Go Fish)

🎲 Board games (no batteries)

✏️ Journals, notebooks, pens

📻 Audiobooks on battery-powered player

🧸 Stuffed animal or comfort item

🔦 Personal flashlight (decorate together)

💡 Headlamp for hands-free light

🏮 Battery-powered lantern

🪫 Extra batteries (all sizes)

🔋 Rechargeable batteries + solar charger

🕯️ Glow sticks (fun + emergency light)

📻 Two-way radios (teach kids to use)

📞 Practice calling 911 (on disconnected phone)

🏠 Family meeting place (practice together)

🆔 Emergency contact card in backpack

🧴 Hand sanitizer & wipes

😴 Bedtime routine plan (lantern reading)

🗣️ Talk calmly about what might happen

👧 Give kids a job (flashlight monitor, water checker)

🧸 Comfort items packed (familiar = safe)

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Practice family "what if" scenarios

🎵 Calm music playlist (battery speaker)

🙏 Reassure: "We have a plan. We are safe together."