A first aid club for our littlest helpers
| Audience | Kindergarten through 2nd grade |
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| Format | School club, 8 weekly meetings, one hour each, plus optional extras |
| Class size | Up to 12 members per instructor; larger groups add a second instructor |
| Instructor | Certified teacher or registered nurse from Mindful Beginnings |
| Location | We come to your school or site and bring everything |
| Each member receives | Little Medic handbook, name badge, weekly badge stickers, and a certificate |
| Contact | lindsay@mindfulbeginnings.org • 703-987-5979 • mindfulbeginnings.org |
About the club
Little Medic teaches young children the first steps of first aid in a way that is calm, hands-on, and fun. Every meeting follows the same six-part rhythm: a check-in, a short story with a stuffed-animal patient, the week’s big steps taught with a chant and hand motions, practice stations, a movement game, and badge time. Members bring their own stuffed-animal patient and bandage, cool, and care for it all season.
The whole club rests on three habits a five-year-old can master: stay calm, get a grown-up, and help with kind hands. Little Medics learn what a real emergency is and how to call 9-1-1, how to tell a grown-up clearly what is wrong, how to care for a scrape or a bump, how to wash hands the right way, how to stay safe around hot things, and how to recognize choking and shout for help. Little Medics are never taught to treat a big hurt alone or to perform choking rescue or CPR. Their job is to notice, tell, and get help.
Week by week
The club runs eight weeks, one hour a week. Two optional extras, Weather Ready and Graduation, can lengthen the season, and any week can stretch or repeat: sites adapt the season as they see fit.
Week 1: Welcome, Little Medics!. Build club culture, learn what a medic does, take the Little Medic Pledge, and meet Rule #1.
Week 2: Tell It! Calm Bodies, Clear Words. How to calm your body and tell a grown-up exactly what is wrong: where, what, and how much.
Week 3: 9-1-1 Heroes. When a hurt is a real emergency, how to call 9-1-1, and what to say when the helper answers.
Week 4: Boo-Boo Basics. Scrapes and small cuts: the four steps, gloves and germs, and real bandage practice on a patient.
Week 5: Bumps, Bruises, and Nosebleeds. What to do for a bump or bruise, the nosebleed steps, and why a head bump always means a grown-up.
Week 6: Hot Stuff! Burns and Fire Safety. What to do for a small burn, how to stay away from hot things, and the fire safety moves every child needs.
Week 7: Choking and Safe Eating. The signs of choking, what a Little Medic does (shout and stay), and the safe eating rules that stop choking before it starts.
Week 8: Bites, Stings, and Itchy Things. Bee stings, bug bites, poison ivy, pet safety, and the allergy signs that mean a grown-up right now.
Optional extra: Weather Ready. Staying safe outside in the sun, heat, cold, and storms, plus the water rule.
Optional extra: Challenge Day and Graduation. Station review of every skill, the Little Medic Challenge, certificates, and a celebration.
What makes it special
- A real skill set, taught at a pace that fits five-, six-, and seven-year-olds.
- The stuffed-animal patient. Every week it comes home bandaged and loved.
- Handbook pages marked Finish at Home that turn the club into a family conversation: the My Address Card, the family meeting spot, and the safe eating rules.
- A graduation that feels real: certificate, badge, and applause.
For the grown-ups
Mindful Beginnings is an American Red Cross licensed provider. We offer CPR, AED, and First Aid certification classes for parents, caregivers, and staff, taught by registered nurses, in English or Spanish, at your home or site.
| Little Medic is a Mindful Beginnings original program. Book a club: lindsay@mindfulbeginnings.org • 703-987-5979 • mindfulbeginnings.org |
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