Background Blue- Paint or use chalk to outline
a large tooth. Glue on wiggly eyes from crafts store. Draw a big toothy grin on the tooth.
Let children color everywhere except the tooth. Tell them we need to keep our teeth clean
and white.
Background Yellow-
Repeat what you did on the first board only put a sad face on this tooth. Let the children color all the tooth.
Tell them the good tooth fairy Dentist (He is the good tooth fairy's cousin) needs to come and clean the tooth.
Before they come in the next day paste a clean happy tooth over the sad one and tell
a story of how the good tooth fairy Dentist
must have come during the night to clean the tooth
and make it happy. I tell goofy stories about everything. My kids are so use to it they just smile or say "Yea right!"
But their mothers tell me how long they brush so they must listen to me.
SCIENCE TOOTH TABLE
I am lucky to have a collection of shark
teeth from hunting them in rivers when I was younger. My better ones I leave in
plastic baggies for the children to examine. Check with all your friends and their friends
and you will probally find some to borrow. A lot of people collect them. If you find a person
like myself beg them to come in and answer questions from the kids.
I use the large teeth model set
(Human kind) and oversized
tooth brush for children to practice on.
Hard boil an egg ahead of time.
Place the egg in a dark cola for a day.
Then the next day talk about why we should keep our teeth clean
and how we can keep them clean. Take the egg out to find that it
is discolored yellow looking like plaque. Take a tooth brush with a
little tooth paste and brush it off.
Soak an egg in a cup of vinegar.
The shell will come off showing that if acid continually builds up in
your mouth, it will decalcify, just like the egg.
Add a book on Tooth brushing.
Take pieces of an eggshell.
Overnite, soak one piece in each
of the following orange juice, dark cola, milk, and water. They will see
brown spots on the orange juice and dark cola
shells. Talk about leaving sugar on your teeth at night and the effects.
ART/FINE MOTOR
Use blue
Playdough. and have children use the edges of cookie cutters
to make teeth prints.
Cut a 2 liter soda bottle in half.
Turn upside down on a table. Squirt shaving cream on it and let children brush the big tooth.
Make a collage using pictures of mouths cut out of magazines.
Use tongs to pick up
cotton balls and place on glued paper in shape of mouth.
Fill an ice-cube tray with
plaster of paris. Let it harden over night. Flip out on the art table and
let children practice brushing.
Use Dental Floss to string
small macaroni.
Sponge paint White teeth on big Red smiles.
Cut out and glue healthy snacks
to a paper plate. Then pretend to have an inside picnic.
Cut out a tooth shape and cover with White materials such as rice,
cotton balls, white puff cereal, etc...
Cut out a tooth shape from yellow paper.
Mix White tempera paint with corn syrup. Give the children
toothbrushes to dip into the mixture and brush their tooth with.
The mixture will dry to a
shiney finish and resemble a healthy tooth.
Cut out the shape of
a tooth brush from thick card board box. Have children trace around the inside
with a fat kindergarten pencil. Color inside with pens or crayons.
Use regular poster board and have
children trace using thick cardboard cutout again.
Cut out with scissors.
Glue piece of colored sponge on the end for bristles.
Easel paint with
tooth brushes.
Table paint with medium mix and dry
powder paint. Put a tablespoon of each on the table and have
children mix
with the tooth brushes. You can also lay paper on the finished
design to capture
bristle strokes. Hang dry.
CIRCLE TIME
Take a field trip to a dentist office. We are lucky enough
to have a dentist
come in each year to clean their teeth right in the room! This
part of our program
requires signed consent and only if the child is willing.
Let
kids make
Homemade toothpaste-Combine: 1T. salt, 2T.baking powder, small
amount of peppermint flavoring.
Or: 1tsp.
baking soda, 1 drop of peppermint extract and a few drops of water. Add mint or orange.
Cut apples into wedges.
Count the slices. Everybody sinks their teeth in and
compares tooth prints. Notice how much bigger the teacher's are and
find the smallest teeth.
Spread peanut butter on one side of
the apple and add Miniature Marshmellows
to form teeth. Eat it up. Note! This is a good time to brush
their teeth explaining
that Marshmellows have sugar and need to come off their teeth soon.
Make a White Magic Tooth Box and place
many small items
inside such as erasers, tiny figures, stickers, small shape blocks etc... Cut a square out of the top of the box and draw lips around the hole.
Have the children look in the mouth box with a small penlight to
"find" items and identify.
Let
the children use the gloves
and dentist "tools" to work on their dolls and stuffed animals.
Make a l
arge set off teeth using poster board.
Cut slits between the teeth and let each child use dental floss to
clean the teeth.
Using
thick cardboard from boxes cut two large circles.
Draw on eyes, noses and cut out the mouth area. Make one look happy.
Make the
other look sad. Have pre-cut healthy and non-healthy foods. Let
each child come up and pick a food and place inside the mouth of
Happy face or Sad face.
Give
children 2 paper plates. Have them draw
a happy face on one and a sad face on another. Cut foods out of
magazines and glue on apporiate face.
Give them a saving place to work on this several times.
BOOKS
Leslie McGuire's Brush Your Teeth Please.
Marc Tolon Brown's Arthur's Tooth (Cloth).
Marc Tolon Brown's Arthur Tricks the Tooth Fairy.
Jutta Langreuter's Little Bear Brushes His Teeth.
Linda Cress Dowdy's Barney Goes to the Dentist.
Kath Mellentin and Tim Wood's Dear Tooth Fairy.
Theodore Le Sieg's The Tooth Book.
P. K. Hallinan's My Dentist, My Friend.
Paul Showers's How Many Teeth?.
Mike Thaler's Fang the Dentist .
Lillian Hoban's Arthur's Loose Tooth .
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