FRG Leaders

To organize the activities for kids during our Family Nights (essentially battalion-wide Family Readiness Group meetings), our volunteers created "craft bags."  The craft bags contained a short note of instruction for the kids and materials for all of the activities for the night.  Gallon-size Ziploc bags worked well.  Here is an example of what was in our last Family Night bags ...

1. Note of Instruction (see photo below)
2. Booklet (see blog post: I Love a US Army Soldier)
3. small book ring for the booklet
4. snack-size Ziploc bag with a length of stretchy string and two heart beads (see blog post: The Invisible String)
5. snack-size Ziploc bag with a ball of homemade red play dough

Note of Instructions for the kids

Snapshot of the kids' Craft Bags

It takes some prep work before the meeting, but really helps out the volunteers working with kids, and the large Ziploc bags give the kids an easy way to get all of their things home.

~ Traci Cook

The kids at our recent battalion Family Night completed a short booklet to explain more about where their Soldier is currently training.  It's a simple Word document that we printed in two columns then cut right down the middle.

The kids punched one hole in the top left-hand corner of the page then used reinforcement stickers around the holes (not essential but fun for the kids).  Then, they connected all of their pages with a small book ring.  Here are the pages:

If you'd like a digital copy of the booklet, visit me on SlideShare!


... Add your own unit crest and it's all yours!

~ Traci Cook