The Day Kit
What somebody buys when they want to run a live session. Private working draft, 2 Sep 2026.
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What this is, and the one design rule
A box and a screen that let an untrained adult with a room run a good day for eight to twenty kids. Not a facilitator programme. Not a curriculum they have to learn. The kid on the screen does the teaching; the adult keeps the room going.
The design rule, and it isn’t only about liability. The software suggests and paces. It never commands. Everything is adjustable in front of the operator, and the operator is visibly the one deciding. A run sheet that dictates conduct in real time turns a teaching aid into an instrument — which is both worse product design and a different legal animal. Suggested next: Station 3 · 20 min · Skip · Adjust. Never “Do this now.”
And the words: nothing we write ever calls a buyer certified, approved, trained, vetted, authorised, or official. They bought a box. That’s the whole relationship.
The three things they get
1. The session, on screen — free, comes with the box
- A roster they type in, or a join code kids enter on their own devices
- Live view of who’s answered what, updating as it happens
- Attendance to mark off
- A suggested running order with times, every block skippable and adjustable
- The same lesson pages the family gets at home — nothing bespoke to maintain
Every attending child needs their own Family Pass. Their answers, their record and their certificate stay with their family, not with the organizer.
2. The box — per attendee, ordered after registration closes
| Item | Why it’s in there |
|---|---|
| Lanyard + printed name/badge card | Identity in the room; kids keep them |
| Roller bandage, triangular bandage, gauze pad | Actually used on each other, actually taken home |
| Station card deck (12 cards) | The activities, in hands, no screen needed |
| Hazard hunt card set | The stations that work best on paper |
| Family paperwork pack, printed properly | House agreement, contact card, escape plan — the fridge artifacts |
| Embroidered patch for the badge earned | The single most wanted object in the box |
| Certificate on real stock | What gets photographed |
| Sticker sheet | Cheap, disproportionate effect |
They never hold stock. Registration closes, they order that many boxes. No inventory risk is the reason a rec coordinator says yes.
3. The prop set — bought once, reused forever
- A practice door (hinged panel, viewer, chain, letterbox)
- A phone handset that rings
- A practice arm for pressure and bandaging
- A smoke alarm with a working test button
- Six station signs, printed on board
- A soft timer/bell
What it replaces
| The old facilitator kit | What we do instead |
|---|---|
| A 117-page lesson plan | One page on screen. Nobody reads a binder on a Saturday. |
| An instructor script | No script. The films teach. |
| A hundred-slide deck | Web pages. Changed in ten minutes, never reprinted. |
| Laminated card sets | Still cards — cards belong in hands. In the box. |
| Printed participant manuals | The kid’s own account, plus a take-home pack. |
| Blank certificates | Real stock and a dated record checkable at a link. |
| Badge stickers | Embroidered patches. |
| A paper attendance sheet | The roster, live, on their screen. |
| $585 up front, before anyone registers | Boxes ordered after registration closes. |
The day itself — how seven hours actually work
Nobody sits for seven hours and nobody should pretend otherwise. The screens carry the knowledge; the room carries the practice. That division is why an untrained adult can run it, and it’s the honest reason a family would pay for a day at all: the physical part is the thing a screen genuinely cannot do.
The suggested shape — Home Alone Ready, one day, 12–16 kids
| Block | What happens | |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Arrive and set up | Lanyards, devices, join code on the big screen, everyone signs in |
| 9:20 | Together — the film | One badge’s hook films on the room’s screen. Kids answer on their own devices; the room’s answers show live, anonymously. That reveal is the best moment of the morning. |
| 9:50 | Stations, round one | Four stations, 12 minutes each, small groups rotating |
| 10:40 | Break | Actual break. Outside if there is an outside. |
| 11:00 | Stations, round two | Four more |
| 11:50 | The loud one | Whole-room practice: saying no at real volume, the door script, the phone script. Noisy on purpose, right before lunch. |
| 12:10 | Lunch | |
| 12:50 | Together — the harder badge | Second film block, same shape |
| 13:20 | The long practice | Bandaging in pairs, a full sixty seconds of pressure, the 911 script with a real handset |
| 14:00 | Break | |
| 14:15 | The hunt | The whole room becomes the hazard scene. Cards, teams, a timer. |
| 14:50 | Badge challenge | On their own devices. Every question right to pass, unlimited tries. Nobody fails. |
| 15:10 | Patches and certificates | Names read out. Photographs. This is why parents come back. |
| 15:30 | Out | Take-home pack, and the one thing to do at home tonight |
The eight stations
Each is a card, a prop and one thing to do. Self-explaining — the adult sets a timer and watches.
- The Door — script practice at the practice door, in pairs
- The Call — the handset, the questions, saying your own address out loud
- Pressure — a full sixty seconds on the practice arm, no peeking
- The Helmet — three checks, on each other, scored
- Two Ways Out — sketch your own bedroom, mark both exits
- Say It Loud — voice and posture, at real volume, one at a time
- The Hunt — spot the hazards in a set-dressed corner
- Your Card — fill in the contact card that goes home
What the adult is actually asked to do
- Start each block and set the timer
- Hand out the props
- Keep the groups moving
- Read out names at the end
- Nothing else
Not required: teaching, explaining the material, answering safety questions, or knowing anything about the subject. If a kid asks something the screen didn’t cover, the honest answer is “good question — that’s one for your parent,” and the run sheet says so.
Money
- The organizer sets and keeps the day rate. We never see it, never process it, never advise on it. What they charge is their business.
- We sell boxes and props. That’s our margin on the day, and the only money that moves between us.
- Every attendee holds a Family Pass, bought by their own parent, direct from us.
- Commission is paid on memberships sold through their link — never per attendee at their event. The first is ordinary reseller economics. The second would be a cut of their day.
Illustrative only, to be costed:
| Box to organizer | ~$25/kid against ~$8–10 landed cost |
| Prop set | ~$180 one-time |
| A 15-kid day at $85 a head | ~$1,275 in, ~$375 boxes, ~$150 venue → ~$750 to them |
| To us, same day | ~$225 on boxes, plus membership commission |
Box orders are our telemetry. We don’t touch their money and we still know exactly how many kids attended, how often an organizer repeats, and which regions work.
Where a day sells best
Not as a safety class competing with the Red Cross. As a school’s-out day that sends the kid home certified.
Teacher training days, March break, the random Monday in February, the week between Christmas and New Year. Parents that week are not shopping for safety education — they need somewhere their kid can go, and they will pay for it. The patch, the certificate and the practised skills are what make it better than the other option down the road.
- Rec departments — camp days already on the calendar, with an outcome attached
- Schools and PTAs — a PA-day programme in a room they already have
- Firehouses — the natural home for it, and community outreach they’re already funded to do
- Churches, gyms, dojos, scout troops — a dead Tuesday turned into a day families ask for again
What’s on the box, and what isn’t
Printed on the lid, in the terms, and on the page:
This box contains teaching materials. Whoever is running your child’s session bought it from us; they are not employed, trained, screened, approved or supervised by us, and we don’t hold them out as anything. Their venue, their rules, their insurance. Ask them the same questions you’d ask about any other activity your child attends.
And on the record:
Marked present on this date. A note of what happened. Nothing more.
To be settled before this ships
- Box costing — real quotes on patches, printed card decks, bandages, certificate stock, and the lid.
- Prop sourcing — the practice door is the only custom item; everything else is off the shelf.
- Minimum order — probably 8, because below that a day doesn’t work anyway.
- Shipping and lead time — which sets how early registration has to close.
- The terms, drafted to the vendor posture, in front of a lawyer before the first box ships.