Quills Up – Stay Away!

Young children are at greatest risk for unintentional poisonings – and that’s why we’ve created the Quills Up – Stay Away! A Poison Awareness Program featuring Spike, the porcupine puppet. The program, designed for preschool children, makes it easy and fun to teach this important topic.

Quills Up! Includes a video and classroom activities as well as educational materials for parents/caregivers – because getting parents and other adults involved is critical to poison prevention.

Click on the links below to access the Quills Up! program materials online*. If you have questions about poison prevention or need local poison prevention materials, such as the phone stickers mentioned in this program, contact your poison center’s education coordinator by calling 1-800-222-1222.

Teacher’s Guide: Includes poison prevention information, classroom activities, and song lyrics.

Spike’s Poison Prevention Adventure Video: An engaging 11-minute puppet show.

Spike Paper Puppet (color): Reproducible images to be cut and glued to a stick/tongue depressor for use by the teacher.

Spike Paper Puppet (black & white): Reproducible images to be cut and glued to a stick/tongue depressor for use by students and teacher.

Family Take-home (color): Information about poison prevention and treating a poisoning.

Family Take-home (black & white): Information about poison prevention and treating a poisoning.

Your comments and suggestions help us in developing educational materials. Please complete and return the Evaluation Form. Fax to the National Capital Poison Center at (202) 362-8377 or email your comments to pc@poison.org.

*The Quills Up! materials are copyrighted by the American Association of Poison Control Centers and may be used, without edits/modifications, for poison prevention education.

This program was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number U50/CCU317503-03 from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.