{"id":36575,"date":"2020-07-08T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=36575"},"modified":"2020-07-07T13:35:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T20:35:39","slug":"whats-in-my-bag-kid-outing-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-bag-kid-outing-essentials\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in my bag? \u2014 Kid Outing Essentials"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Camille Hartsell<\/strong>\u00a0has honed her question-answering, book-making, and odd-jobbing skills over many years of working as research librarian to Kevin Kelly. Since the arrival of her kids (now 3.5 and 6.5), and especially COVID-19, she is mostly a stay-at-home-parent, which makes her substitute teacher, camp counselor, art facilitator, life-guard, and mediator of many feelings and disputes.<\/p>\n

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About the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kane Kids by State<\/a>
\nBoth kids are now big enough to carry their own backpacks, a major milestone. My daughter uses this great backpack from State, which has a strong charitable giving program. So far, it has survived kindergarten, my crappy patch-sewing, several washes, and now many trips to the park and beach. The side pockets fit full-sized water bottles, and the interior pockets are nice to have if underused by my 6.5yo, who has more of a cram-everything-into-the-biggest section approach to organization.<\/p>\n

What’s inside the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Snack Box<\/strong>
\nMy kids have happily inherited my obsession with cute\u00a0bento boxes<\/a>, and this one features styling from one of our favorite movies,\u00a0Kiki\u2019s Delivery Service<\/em>. The latches are easy to operate and it has two removable compartments inside. It\u2019s made of lightweight plastic and although it\u2019s not leakproof, it does just fine with apple, crackers, nuts, etc. Does great in the dishwasher, although I don\u2019t think you\u2019re supposed to.<\/p>\n

Audubon Bird Call<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($14)<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s small, easy to wear like a necklace, and delightful to use. You press and turn the metal bit, which causes friction and then emits high-pitched chirps. Changing the pressure and speed affects the sound. My 3.5yo can operate it as well as my 6.5yo. Sometimes, we even get birds chirping in response!<\/p>\n

Empty pill organizers<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($3)<\/strong>
\nThe kids use these to collect and sort all manner of treasures and debris. I like these 7-day, stick-style cases because they\u2019re easy to open but also stay latched when tossed into backpacks. Also good for mixing paint.<\/p>\n

Matador Pocket Blanket<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($30)<\/strong>
\nThis ultralight groundcloth is not cushy or warm, but it can be useful to establish a home base when we\u2019re at the park. This one packs down to nothing, and also functions well as a cape or makeshift carrying sack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s in my bag? issue #57<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2303],"tags":[1553],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36578,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36575\/revisions\/36578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}