Connecticut Children's brings reverse trick-or-treating to patient rooms
About 70 staff members in costume at Connecticut Children's in Hartford carried treats to roughly 100 patient rooms so children could take part without leaving the hospital.
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Staff at Connecticut Children's turned Halloween around, NBC Connecticut reported. About 70 employees dressed in costume and delivered treats to roughly 100 patient rooms in Hartford, a reverse trick-or-treat for children who were in the hospital.
The visits kept the holiday inside the building. The numbers are the hospital's count of staff in costume and rooms reached, not a description of any child's diagnosis.
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On Halloween, children usually walk to doors and say trick or treat. At Connecticut Children's hospital in Hartford, the walk went the other way. About 70 staff members put on costumes and brought treats to roughly 100 patient rooms. That is called reverse trick-or-treating. The children could take part from the room they were already in. Nurses, doctors, and other hospital workers were the ones in costume. The count is about 70 adults and about 100 rooms, a hospital's way of keeping Halloween on the calendar for patients who could not go outside.
- Why would a hospital bring the treats to the rooms instead of asking children to walk the halls?
- What makes a costume fun without making it scary?
- How could your class include someone who cannot come to a party?
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