Spike Education Program

What is the Spike Education Program?

The Spike Education Program is a child safety program offered to elementary schools in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont for their kindergarten or first-grade classes. The program is held every March for National Poison Prevention Week.

The program teaches children and adults safety tips for preventing poisonings using the Spike Education Kit. The kit features Spike’s Poison Prevention Adventure, a video starring Spike, the poison prevention porcupine puppet. It contains:

  • Spike’s Poison Prevention Adventure DVD
  • Plush Spike hand puppet for the classroom
  • Teacher’s guide for the video
  • “Candy or Medicine?” poster
  • Classroom activities

In addition, students receive poison center refrigerator magnets and Spike temporary tattoos to take home.

We also offer additional materials here on our website:

Every school that completes our online Spike reporting form is entered to win a plush Spike finger puppet for each participating student.

2012 Spike Poison Prevention Adventure Program

Our fourth annual Spike Education Program was another success! We had more than 200 schools sign up to receive materials, and more than 100 schools reported on their activities. Eight reporting schools were selected in a random drawing to receive Spike finger puppets for their students. All the reporting schools are listed below, with our winners in bold.

Maine
Agnes Gray Elementary
Alexander Elementary
Alexander Elementary
Athens Elementary
Bowdoin Central School
C.A. Snow School
Captain Albert W. Stevens School
Cushing Community School
Deer Isle-Stonington Elementary
East Auburn Community School
East Grand School
Eliot Elementary
Enfield Station School
Fayette Central School
Fort Kent Elementary
Frankfort Elementary
Gilford Butler Elementary
Greene Central School
Hebron Station School
Hodgdon Mill Pond Elementary
Jay Head Start
Jonesboro Elementary
Leeds Central School
Long Island Elementary
Loring Fire Department
Lubec Consolidated School
Lura Libby School
Mill Stream Elementary
Mt. Vernon Elementary
Ocean Avenue Elementary
Oxford Elementary
Prescott Memorial School
Sherwood Heights Elementary
St James School
Stillwater Montessori School
Trenton Elementary
Turner Primary School
Union Elementary
Walker Elementary
Wayne Elementary
Wesley Elementary
Woodland Consolidated School

New Hampshire
Bath Village School
Bernice A Ray School
Center Woods Elementary
East Derry Memorial Elementary
Ellis School
Fuller Elementary
Gonic School
Green Acres School
Highland-Goffe’s Falls Elementary
Jennie D. Blake Elementary
Kimball Walker School
Ledge Street School
Lincoln Akerman School
Maple Street School
McClelland School
Milan Village Elementary
Mildred Lakeway Elementary
Milton Elementary
Northwood School
Penacook Elementary
Peterborough Elementary
Piermont Village School
Richards Elementary
Salem Christian School
Sutton Central School
Tuftonboro Central School
Villa Augustina School
Wells Memorial School
Wheelock School

Vermont
Bakersfield Elementary/Middle
Barnet School
Barton Graded School
Bennington Elementary
Brewster Pierce Memorial School
Burke Town School
Canaan Elementary
Castleton Elementary
Chester-Andover Elementary
Clarendon Elementary
Danville School
Deerfield Valley Elementary
Dummerston School
Eden Elementary
Essex Elementary
Fair Haven Grade School
Georgia Elementary/Middle
Glover Community School
Grace Preschool
Halifax School
Irasburg Village School
Jericho Elementary
Johnson Elementary
Killington Elementary
Mater Christi School
Miller’s Run Elementary
Newport Town School
Poultney Elementary
Putney Central School
Saxtons River Elementary
Stamford Elementary
Thatcher Brook Primary School
The St. Johnsbury School
Troy School
Twinfield Union School
Underhill Central School
Underhill ID School
Vernon Elementary
Warren Elementary
Waterford Elementary
Woodstock Elementary

Thanks to all our participants!