Tuesday: Black Light Volleyball

This was our last Tuesday before we leave for Martin's Cove, and we needed to do an equipment check and get a final ONCE AND FOR ALL number on girls who were going on the trek.  We knew 'bucket check' as an activity would be a hard sell unless we had something else fun planned, solution: black light volleyball!!  We bought black light face paint, a bucket of glow sticks, and gathered up our black lights.  (Luckily our secretary's son was a DJ of sorts before he left on his mission and he had 3 and my son had one.) I had some battery operated EL wire lights we lined the net with, and bought a cheap volleyball and painted it with G-I-D paint. (We still couldn't see the ball very well so we taped some glow sticks to it.)  We asked the girls to wear white and or neon colors and  they had a blast; most of the YM, who were also having a bucket check ended up joining us. 

** We had a few kids open the glow sticks and paint their hands and arms; NOT A GOOD IDEA.  The glow sticks have glass shards in them and ended up giving the culprits little cuts on their hands and arms when they hit the ball.  Nothing serious or deep just irritating.

June Newsletter

Inspired from a scrapbook page I saw on Bing

Handout 22: June 2, 2013

Hey Lady!

I don't mean to BUG you, but have you worked on your Personal Progress lately?

Tuesday: First-Aid

This week we went through the first-aid sections of the camp manual.  (This also can be used for PP value Knowledge experience 7)

About two weeks ago we divided our 4th-6th year girls into 4 groups; then we assigned each group 2 to 3 first aid topics. 

GROUP ONE:
1st year bullet 6: Explain the purpose of first aid, (pg 34 of camp manual, CM) and learn the first 4 steps to take when treating accident victims. (pgs 35 CM)

1st year bullet 9: Learn how to fold a cravat bandage.  Demonstrate the uses of the bandage. (pg 43 CM)

1st year bullet 10: Learn what should go into a basic first-aid kit and the use of each item. (pg 46 CM) Most of the information in the camp manual is correct but some is antiquated; this happened to be one of the items we felt as a presidency needed to be updated.  We found this basic first-aid kit list on the Mayo Clinic website:

Basic supplies

•Adhesive tape

•Antibiotic ointment

•Antiseptic solution or towelettes

•Bandages, including a roll of elastic wrap (Ace, Coban, others)

•Bandage strips ) in assorted sizes including butterfly, finger tip, knuckle (Band-Aid, Curad, others)

•Instant cold packs

•Cotton balls and cotton-tipped swabs

•Disposable latex or synthetic gloves, at least two pair

•Duct tape, mole skin for blisters

•Gauze pads and roller gauze in assorted sizes

•First-aid manual

•Petroleum jelly or other lubricant

•Plastic bags for the disposal of contaminated materials

•Safety pins in assorted sizes

•Scissors and tweezers

•Instant hand sanitizer

•Sterile eyewash, such as a saline solution (contact solution)

•Thermometer

•Triangular bandage

•Turkey baster or other bulb suction device for flushing out wounds

Medications

•Activated charcoal (use only if instructed by your poison control center)

•Aloe vera gel

•Anti-diarrhea medication

•Over-the-counter oral antihistamine, (Benadryl, others)

•Aspirin and non-aspirin pain relievers

•Calamine lotion

•Over-the-counter hydrocortisone cream

•Personal medications that don't need refrigeration

•If prescribed by your doctor, drugs to treat an allergic attack, such as an auto-injector of epinephrine (EpiPen, Twinject, others)

•Syringe, medicine cup or spoon

Emergency items

•Emergency phone numbers, including contact information for your family doctor and pediatrician, local emergency services, emergency road service providers and the regional poison control center

•Medical consent forms for each family member

•Medical history forms for each family member

•Small, waterproof flashlight and extra batteries

•Candles and matches

•Sunscreen

•Emergency space blanket

•First-aid instruction manual

GROUP TWO:
1st year bullet 7: Demonstrate how to preform the Heimlich maneuver to help a person who is choking. (pg 36 CM)

Picture used from here

2nd year bullet 7: Demonstrate how to treat someone who has fainted or is in shock. (pg 37 CM)

2nd year bullet 8: Demonstrate how to give first aid for heat exhaution and heat stroke (pg 41 CM) or for hypothermia and frostbite (pg 39 CM)

GROUP 3:
1st year bullet 8: Demonstrate how to give first aid for excessive bleeding (pg 36-37 CM) and poisoning (pg 37 CM)

3rd year bullet 7: Show how to give emergency first aid for insect bites or stings (pg 41-42 CM), burns (pg 38 CM), blisters (pg 38 CM), and snakebites (pg 42-43 CM)

GROUP 4:
Demo how to give rescue breathing.  This was another requirement that the info in the CM was incorrect.  It is no longer recommended that you do rescue breathing, only chest compressions. 

  4th year bullet 9: Describe the signs of a broken bone.  Demo first-aid procedures for handling broken bones. (pg 39 CM)

4th year bullet 10: Learn and demonstrate four methods for transporting someone who is injured.(pg 44 CM)

We as leaders also each took a group and went over the information that way we could make sure it was correct, fill in with information where needed and in one case help present because none of the girls from that group were able to come to YW last night.

Handout 21: May 26, 2013

I was very tempted to make some sort of Bachelor reference with this but I refrained;

it would have said something like...

Don't let anyone take your SPARKLE!

P.S. Work on your Personal Progress this week

Welcome to Young Women Idea

We have 2 new Beehives joining our little troop this summer and I had just finished off a GIANT carton of Goldfish crackers when the cogs started turning.  At first I thought it would be fun to put all of the 'Welcome to YW!' stuff in the Goldfish box and make an It's o-FISH-al type note, but then I decided to deck it all out YW and PP style.  I bought a sheet of poster board, disassembled the carton, traced it onto the poster board, cut it out, folded, glued, assembled and wha-la!

 

Then I got onto print shop and created the sides and bottom of the box...

While I was getting everything packed inside I realize...

THE ENSIGN is TOO tall.  No matter what I tried it would not close.  Back to the drawing board!

This time instead of tracing I measured the carton and added 1" to the height; then drew it onto the poster board.

Cut it out, folded, taped and glued again... The Ensign fit!!  I think it is cute, hopefully the girls will too!

Tuesday: Lip Balm with Sunscreen

Tonight is Seminary Graduation and we are not having YW.  Last Tuesday while we were makings sunscreen we also made lip balm; the girls LOVED it!!  I have a favorite website I turn to for these things; when we decided to make lip balm we went immediately went to Elements Bath and Body!



Lip Balm Kit http://www.elementsbathandbody.com/Lip-Balm-Kit-pr-1602.html

This kit has everything you need to make 12 tubes + 4 tins of lip balm for $25. Don't forget to add a few 0.15 cc measuring scoops for the zinc oxide at .20 cents each. 

Directions come in the kit and they work great for a few people, but when you have 16 YW trying to make it all at once a few changes needed to be made to speed up the process.

We had the pre-melted the lip balm base (we kept it in a metal mixing bowl on a warm griddle), measuring cups and pipettes.  We also put each flavor oil in its own labeled bag and a labeled pipette; this was in an attempt to avoid mixing the flavors all together and ending up with 8 vials of "fruit punch".  

DIRECTIONS:
♥ Use pippette and put 6 ml of melted base into a measuring cup
♥ Add 9 drops of flavor oil
♥ Add 3 drops of sweetener oil
♥ Add on level scoop of zinc oxide
♥ Stir well with skewer
♥ Use pippette and transfer lip balm into tube, fill as full as you can get it, (forms a bubble over the top)
♥ Let cool before putting on the lid; lable.

   

** TROUBLE SHOOTING **

Make sure the lip balm base is warm enough~ it will thicken extremely quickly once you start adding flavors and zinc if it is not at the right temp.  If it does thicken to quickly you can heat it again in the microwave in 5 to 10 second bursts or transfer it to a heat resistant bowl and melt on griddle; but only if the zinc has not been added yet.