How good are the Deuter Kids’ sleeping bags?

REI doesn't have temperature ratings for those bags but they do have fill weights for the Deuter bags: 11 ounces of poly fill for the small bag, 13.5 ounces for the larger one.
Translation – not very warm.
For comparison (also from the REI website) the REI Kindercone is a 30 degree bag and has 26 ounces of poly fill.

When my kid was little I got him a kids REI poly fill bag. It got a fair amount of use for sleep-overs, back yard camping, sleep-away summer camp, school trips and the like.

However after schlepping it on one backpacking trip we gave up. The sleeping bag was just too bulky for him to carry comfortably in his own small backpack, and I already had plenty of extra family gear for that trip so I couldn't fit it in mine either. So on the next trip he just used one of my down sleeping bags and he loved it. He didn't mind that it was longer than he needed, it was warm, soft and comfy.

Well, I went back over to ebay and found a new listing for Boy Scouts 30F down sleeping bags, NIB, 2.55lbs, for $35/each with free shipping. I've seen them listed before, like over a year ago, but missed out. By chance they hat two on there again so I bought both of them. I have no idea how good they are but they should arrive today or tomorrow and maybe I'll post back with a review. For $70 total, imo, I couldn't go wrong. There' absolutely no way they can be any worse than thier current Walmart, 5+lb, incompressible, rectangular bags. They've slept in those bags to below freezing temps with a few layers on without complaining…

Now, to find some reasonable kids' backpacks, that don't weigh 3+ lbs empty, and don't cost a small fortune…

btw- I have six kids. I'd like to start taking the three older ones on overnight hikes with me (and maybe the 4th), but can't afford to flat out buy all that gear in one shot… Piece by piece, myog when I can, etc…

BM

Kind of an old post (sorry), but did you ever do a review of those cheap ebay "Scout" down bags? If not, if you could just share some thoughts informally that would be great. Are they relly 2.5lbs? If so, I'm wondering if they are at all serviceable for kids — even if I have to cut them down in length (the 84" dimension has me wondering) to save some size/weight.

Thanks!