Build Your Own Hand Washing Tool Kit

The supplies and materials you need to build a toolkit for teaching the MDH hand washing curriculum.

On this page:
Posters
Experiment supplies

Posters:

• Hand Hygiene Posters and Print Materials
• Foodborne Illness Hotline Poster

Experiment supplies:

Not all supplies are necessary. Check the curriculum you are using for the experiments you plan to do and pack only those materials.

• Ultraviolet light
   
  • Extension cord
• Glowing potion and/or powder
   
• Soap
• Paper towels
• Singing/dancing animal that lasts 20 seconds (or other way to measure 20 seconds of time)
   
• Fake finger germs (5)
• Rubber chicken
   
• Telephone
• Apple or other fruit
• Sandwich
• Sterile petri dishes (with agar)
• Sterile cotton swabs or Q-tips
• Distilled water
• Masking tape
• Permanent markers
• Sandwich bags
• Preservative free bread (available at most bakeries)
• Brown grocery bag
• Paper lunch bags
• Balloons
• 3-600ml beakers
• 2-250ml flasks
• Labels
• Sugar
• Packaged dry yeast
• Instant read thermometer
• Spoon
• 3 Containers for water (buckets) or glass jars with lids
• Cutting board
• Play-doh (not white or yellow)
• Knife
• Dark color paper or cloth towel

Other things to have:

• Acrylic snot
• Prizes