Choose a nice sized container. It needs to be large enough to store the materials.
Store it an easily accessed locale in your home. Teach your children and frequent house guests where the first aid kit is stored.
Fill the box with the sterile and/or newly-bought items as listed under "Things you'll need".

Tips

You can also use a store bought kit and and add other items like alcohol or hydrogen peroxide, cotton balls,extra bandages and a thermometer.
Cotton swabs are optional
For antibiotic ointment, Neosporin is recommended, because it does not sting the cut.
You could save a life by learning CPR and basic first aid. Training is available from your local red cross or other organizations.
You can use these items, if you have no supplies in an emergency:
sticks for splints
cloth for bleeding,slings.
Water,to clean wounds and eyes.

Warnings

Wash tweezers, scissors, and thermometer after each use.
Be aware of what you use and don't let supplies get low!
Be sure everyone who would potentially use the kit is not allergic to any of the ingredients.
Do not store prescriptions in the first aid kit,items such as an epipen are all right though
Don't use any products containing natural rubber latex (NRL), someone could be allergic.

Adhesive dressings, of varied size and shape, from regular Band-Aid shapes to small squares to large
Small (but sharp) scissors
A package of gauze pads. They can be large, because you can always cut them if necessary.
Adhesive tape (Not like cellophane tape)
Cotton Balls, large and small, or tampons
Rubbing non-Alcohol wipes for cleaning external surfaces only (i.e. cleaning dirt off of unbroken skin, or wiping down a surface)
Antibiotic Ointment, for keeping the infection out of cuts, scrapes, etc.
A thermometer
Tweezers for pulling out splinter
Non-latex gloves, in case of blood,body fluids and dangerous waste, keep two pairs for the smallest kit
A bee sting kit
Insect Repellant
sterile dressings(a sterile pad attached to a roller bandage)
roller bandages
triangular bandages
sterile saline
CPR breathing mask
safety pins and bandage clips

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