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Doesn’t it just drive you crazy when you arrive at your vacation destination and realize you need the one thing that’s missing? Usually someone has allergy issues or needs help with relieving pain, and I forgot the meds.
This year for our beach vacation as well as for my kids’ swim meets, I’ve made necessity kits, so I don’t forget a thing. The best place I’ve found to fill my kits is Walgreens with so many of their #WellAtWalgreens products like pain relievers, first aid supplies, sunscreen, and much more at such a savings! Plus, you often get bonus savings with their Balance Rewards.
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Making your own Necessities Kit is super easy. I went to my local craft store and purchased plastic scrapbook boxes along with some fun themed stickers to decorate both kits.
You never know what can happen at the beach. From sunburns to jellyfish stings, I want to be prepared. For my Vacation Beach Kit, I’ve included the following items:
- Bandages
- Antibiotic ointment
- Antiseptic Spray
- Hydrocortizone ointment
- Tweezers
- Scissors
- Sunscreen
- Lip balm
- Pain Relievers for adults and children
- Allergy Meds for adults and children
- Wipes & Tissues
- Sterile saline
- Baby Powder
- Hand Sanitizer
- Baking Soda (make a paste with seawater for jellyfish stings)
To make your own Vacation Beach Kit, just check out the pictures here:
While I was at the store, I also picked up items to make a Swim Meet Survival Kit. My older kids are on the local swim team. We attend a fair amount of swim meets, and it’s always a mad dash to get there.
I tend to forget the essential permanent marker. At a swim meet you write your kid’s races on their arm in permanent marker. It’s essential that they need to know what heat of the race, what lane, and what stroke.
Not only does my kit include the easy-to-forget marker, I also like to include pain relievers and bandages, too — just in case. I was so glad I had it at the last swim meet when my teenager scraped her ankle on the side of the pool.
Here’s what I’ve included in the Swim Meet Survival Kit:
- Permanent marker
- Healthy snacks
- Electrolyte water enhancer
- Pain relievers
- Bandaids
- Antibiotic ointment
To make your own Swim Meet Survival Kit, just follow along the pictures below:
I hope these ideas have given you inspiration to make a kit for your family, too. Do you have a first aid kit? What are your must haves for a first aid beach kit?
26 comments
This is great! You have thought of everything! The only thing I would probably add to mine is some sort of soothing aloe cream. Baby powder is the best thing going for removing sand!
I was thinking the same thing, I love this list. And adding aloe would make it perfect. Also make sure you get the talc free baby powder. 🙂
I have done this for years and it’s a timely reminder! Love that you decorated the containers.
Those are brilliant ideas! I appreciate that you labeled them as well so it is easily identified by OTHER members of the household when told to grab so-and-so kit. 🙂
This is so smart! We are heading to Disney in a month and a half. I will be making a kit! Brilliant – I love this!
Love the idea of specialized kits! We make sure to keep a first aid kit in our home and a seperate one in our car.
That’s so smart. I live in LA and was just saying that I need to create an earthquake kit since we’ve had a few rumbles lately!
Hi! Great kit! I would also add meat tenderizer to the beach kit for jellyfish stings.
My husband thinks I’m silly, but I have a fairly intense first aid kit and its fully stocked at all times. We’re both a little accident prone, and I am an over-preparer. Also living in an area with lots of tornadoes in the spring, I tend to worry about worse case scenarios, and like to be prepared for ANYTHING LOL
this is awesome! Love the case and I know this will come in handy during the summer!
This is great! We are going to the beach this summer for a week, and having an essentials kit will be wonderful to help with the twins! I’m also pinning this to my travel board (@dorydoyle)!
Great idea! We don’t have human children (all four kids have four legs!) so ours would be an “outdoor play” kit with allergy meds that the animals can take, sunscreen and bug spray for the husband, Ibuprofen for the husband, etc.
Your kits turned out too cute! I was just thinking I need to re-stock on some things!
This is such a great idea to have on hand for a vacation. We always forget Aloe Vera, or even sunscreen! We always stock up at Walgreens too, it’s so convenient to be able to get our photos printed and prescriptions filled while shopping!
I love your kit! So handy and you really have it well stocked. Glad you could find everything you needed at Walgreens.
Thanks, Andrea!
Those are some great ideas for wellness kits. I bet you could customize one for just about any sport or activity!
I love your swim team kit. Where did you find the stickers? We looked at Hobby Lobby for swim stickers for my daughter’s 4H scrapbook and they didn’t have any cool ones.
I found them at Michael’s. If I recall, I think they had 2 or 3 different packs of swim team stickers. I was very surprised to see them.
Great post! It’s always smart to be prepared especially when you know you might not be able to get these items easily where you’re going. Thanks for sharing!
What is the baking soda for? it is not in your list but shown in the picture.
I can’t believe I left that out! It’s for jellyfish stings. You make a paste with the baking soda and seawater and put it on the stings. I had to do that last year with my teenager. She got stung, and it really stopped the pain fast.
I might have missed it but where did you get the boxes to make your kits. I’ve looked all over.
I actually used scrapbook boxes at craft stores like Michaels and Hobby Lobby.