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Fun Wraps – Add a Little Fun to First Aid {review}

April 29, 2015 By Rachel 1 Comment

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Injuries are no fun. Having to keep them all wrapped up with an ugly bandage can make things even worse — especially for kids. That’s where Fun Wraps come in. Fun Wraps is a compression bandage for kids that comes in kid-friendly sizes and fun prints. (Tip for you other mini mamas out there: they’re also a “tiny mom”-friendly size.)

Fun Wraps Are Easy to Use

Let’s face it: kids are wiggly. And I don’t know about you, but I always had a hard time with those clips on traditional wrap bandages. It always took about a half-dozen tries to get each clip on without it popping off and flying across the room. (Maybe I’m just klutzy.) Fun Wraps updates the compression bandage for the 21st century with a couple features that address these two issues.

Putting a Wrap Bandage on a Wiggly Kid

The first cool feature is the starter loop.

Because of this loop, you don’t have to try to hold the end in place — on a squirmy kiddo — while you start to wrap. Just slip the loop over the injured limb and it holds it in place. Now, this does mean you can’t use it on someone too thick, or you might be cutting off circulation or something! And on the skinniest kids it doesn’t compress quite as much, so you have to make up for that with your wrapping. But it worked pretty well on my 7-year-old and on me. (And my kids are pretty slim, so they’re probably at the smaller end of the size range this is meant for.)

Keeping the Bandage in Place

At the opposite end of the process, when you’re ready to stick it shut, there’s no need for clips, because there’s velcro built in!

There are two different “fuzzy” velcro strips, to give you some room to adjust. My only real “complaint” with this bandage is that I would have used a whole panel of velcro fabric; we still found that we really wanted to stick it between the two velcro strips. Still, these definitely beat those stupid little metal clips that I inevitably always lost.

For dunces like me, the instructions are written clearly on the back of the package.

You may notice, when you see our wrapped-ankle pictures, that it doesn’t look as though I wrapped from bottom to top. In part, I probably did a lousy job. (I’ve never had to wrap someone else’s limb before.) Mostly, though, we had excess left at the end so I had to wrap it back around in order to “run out.”

It fit pretty nicely on my elbow.

Fun to Wear

And of course they wouldn’t be Fun Wraps without fun prints! If you have to have an injury, at least you can have a little fun with it, right?

These are two of four current designs, but there’s at least one more already in the works and I’m sure there will be others in the future. (Tweet them your ideas @funwrapsbsi)