Preparing Students to Celebrate Halloween

The Birchtree Center offered a variety of activities at its center in Portsmouth this October to help prepare students for the Halloween holiday.

The week before Halloween, instructors began pre-teaching the holiday. On October 29, students learned a Halloween song and visited a pumpkin patch. The following day, six generous volunteers from the local chapter of Altrusa International hosted students for a practice "Trick or Treat" session at the center. On October 31, students carved pumpkins, participated in a costume parade, and had a dance party.

Foster's Daily Democrat published a feature article about our Halloween activities; to read the story, click here.

For tips from The Birchtree Center's staff on how to prepare a child with autism to celebrate Halloween, click here.