Spike, the Poison Prevention Porcupine, is now
available to teach poison prevention to children, right
in your own home. In an eleven minute live-action
DVD, Spike the porcupine puppet and his guitar-
playing friend teach pre-schoolers to stay away from
poisons. The DVD can be played on a set-top DVD
player or in a computer equipped with a DVD drive.
The disk also contains educational materials that can
be read on
and printed from a computer. A Parents’ Guide gives
information about keeping homes safe for children. A
Teachers’ Guide contains the song lyrics and ideas
for teaching poison prevention to groups of children.
This DVD is free to residents of the National
Capital Poison Center's service area (District of
Columbia, the Maryland counties of Montgomery and
Prince George’s, and, in Virginia, Arlington, Fairfax,
Loudoun and Prince William Counties and the cities of
Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Manassas and
Manassas Park).
Also, a limited number of Spike programs are available
to child care centers that have VHS instead of DVD
players.
Here’s how to order the DVD for home or school use,
or the VHS for school use:
- Click HERE to order from the poison
center’s web
site, OR
- Call the poison center directly at 1-800-222-1222
and say you wish to order materials, OR
- Send an e-mail to pc@poison.org.
