{"id":1004,"date":"2016-12-30T10:39:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T15:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/?page_id=1004"},"modified":"2016-12-30T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T16:02:13","slug":"health-fair-to-go-kit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/educational-information\/health-fair-to-go-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Fair To-Go Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-1004\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1004-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1004-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1004-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>Everything you need to have an exhibit and educational materials for a health fair in your community. What the kit contains: exhibit ideas, information on loan of poison\/candy buzz box, telephone stickers, and a limited quantity of brochures and other printed materials that fits your audience and time of the year.<\/p>\n<h3>Interactive Exhibit Ideas<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Candy\/Medicine Display<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make a display from available pills. Find candies that look like pills and glue on paper. Put the paper on a poster board or in a clear plastic box frame. Let children guess which are pills and which are candy. Explain that in real life, they should NOT guess, but \u201cAsk Before Tasting\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>White Tylenol caplets and white Good n\u2019 Plenty<\/li>\n<li>Benadryl and pink Good n\u2019 Plenty<\/li>\n<li>Red round Sudafed pills and Red Hots<\/li>\n<li>Colored gel-caps (any kind) and jelly beans<\/li>\n<li>Pastel round flat antacids and Sweetarts<\/li>\n<li>Baby aspirin and Sweetarts<\/li>\n<li>Jelly bean vitamins and jelly beans<\/li>\n<li>Gummi bear vitamins and gummi bears<\/li>\n<li>Vita-balls and gum balls<\/li>\n<li>Aspergum and cinnamon gum<\/li>\n<li>Round coated Advil and tropical M&amp;M\u2019s<\/li>\n<li>Brown round pyridium and M&amp;M\u2019s or Skittles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Poison Look-a-likes Display<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make a display of Poison Look-a-likes (poisons that look like good things to eat or drink).<\/p>\n<p>Use any clear containers with a glued lid.<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mothballs next to marshmallows<\/li>\n<li>Chocolate Ex-lax next to chocolate candy bar<\/li>\n<li>Grape flavored cough medicine (liquid) next to grape juice<\/li>\n<li>Clear liquids in 3 containers: Vodka or rubbing alcohol, vinegar, water.<\/li>\n<li>Blue liquids in 3 containers: Powerade, Windex, blue mouthwash.<\/li>\n<li>Yellow liquids: Pine Sol, a yellow liquor, apple juice. (You\u2019ll need a fresh apple juice every time you display it because it ferments and gets cloudy.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>DO not walk away from display if you have poisons on the table!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Encourage children to guess which product is safe to eat or drink. Emphasize that in real life, it is safer NOT to guess, but to \u201cAsk before Tasting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poison Plant Display<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Get silk or potted plants (or photos of them) to make a Poison Plant Display, or have the audience guess which plant is poisonous if eaten. See <a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2016\/12\/brochure_plants.pdf\">Know Your Plants brochure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-1004-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1004-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1004-0-1-0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><figure id=\"attachment_1006\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1006\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1006\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2016\/12\/photo_gummi.jpg\" alt=\"Gummy bear vitamins and gummi bears\" width=\"180\" height=\"153\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gummy bear vitamins and gummi bears.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1004-0-1-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-last-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1004-0-1-1\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><figure id=\"attachment_1008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1008\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1008 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2016\/12\/photo_juice.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow cleaning solution and apple juice\" width=\"180\" height=\"221\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow cleaning solution and apple juice.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything you need to have an exhibit and educational materials for a health fair in your community. What the kit contains: exhibit ideas, information on loan of poison\/candy buzz box, telephone stickers, and a limited quantity of brochures and other printed materials that fits your audience and time of the year.Interactive Exhibit IdeasCandy\/Medicine DisplayMake a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":864,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 20:20:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1004\/revisions\/1016"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/poison-control\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}