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Entertainment at the time of emergency may sound somewhat strange and silly to some people. But indeed entertainment is very important to fight the stress that may arise due to emergency situation.
As we are the part of an age where life is so fast and just everything is powered by gas, electricity, etc. In the emergency situations also, we may end up having lots of idle time in your hands. As emergency is a stressful situation, it can be quite boring and stressful when your only medium of entertainment are electric power television, radio, computer, music system.
Entertainment is particularly important when your children are bound to sit at one place and can not run around or play like they do normally. They know that the situation around them is not safe and thus it may cause them tension. A bored child can increase the frustration of emergency situation.
Not only for children, entertainment is also important for adults. It will help them to pass their time when it is quite difficult too. Entertainment gives relief to stressed mind and can prevent many problems that may arise otherwise. When adults play with children, they too have some fun and entertainment
Here are some supplies for the emergency kit for both children and adults. You can pick any of them as available-
- Books
- Magazines
- Batter powered TV, Radio and other such entertaining appliance
- Deck of cards
- Board games
- Journal
- Sketch pad with pencils, erasers, colors and pencil sharpener
- knitting
- Crochet
- Macramé
- Craft supplies
- Toys
- A large bag of elastic bands or rubber bands
- Boxes of chalk (white or multi color)
- Four candles or night lights
- Boxes of safety matches
- Miniature cricket bat, wicket and small soft ball
- Ball point pens
- Markers
- Felt tip pens
- White rope for knotting game
- Round balloons
- Pipe cleaners
- Reel of cotton for making trip lines
- Sticky tape roll
- Blu-Tak for sticking things on walls
- Couple of large dice
- Small paper sheets for writing instructions
- Box of drawing pins or thumb tacks
- Small flashlight with spare bulb and rechargeable batteries
- Four small pairs of scissors
- Whistles and noise makers
- Safety pins
- Paper clips
- Four triangular bandages
If you have entertaining things in and around your home, it is great! Here are some things that you can do for entertainment in emergency situations.
- When you have kids, think of making a special box of activities for them. It will help them to get through the rough patches of emergency time better. Having in your mind the worries that your child may get bored with the activity box, you can try to fill it with some toys and activities that he or she has t\loved to play with.
- Encourage your children to write a story or draw pictures of about they felt on the day of disaster.
- Give them play dough or clay to make some symbolic creations.
- Music is fun for both adults and children. You can create music with the help of instruments or rhythm toys that helps to relieve the stress and tension.