Dental Health Crafts for Kids
Help kids learn about the benefits of caring for their teeth by featuring dental crafts that cover the basics of good dental hygiene. Choose projects that teach children about why they should floss and brush their teeth daily. The right crafts can make the idea of caring for teeth fun for children.
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Toothbrush Painting
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Help the children paint themselves brushing their teeth. They can also paint a picture of a toothbrush only if they want to create something more simple. Once the paint is dry give the children pieces of dental floss and glue. Help them glue pieces of floss around the border of the painting as decoration.
Tooth Fairy Box
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Give each child in the class a large empty matchbox, scissors, glue and ribbon, along with pink, white and blue felt fabric. Help the children cut blue pieces of fabric to fit the size of the box. Glue the blue felt fabric on the top and sides of the matchbox. Cut out the shape of a tooth from white felt fabric and glue this on the top of the matchbox.
Cut small circular eyes for the tooth out of blue fabric and use a marker to draw a red mouth on the tooth or cut the mouth from pink fabric. Cut out another tooth from white fabric and make a face for this tooth as well. Glue the back of the bottom and sides of the second tooth and press this down on the inside of the matchbox. The top is open, so that a child can easily slip a tooth inside the pocket. Glue a ribbon around the border of the matchbox for decoration.
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Dental Collage
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Give each child a toothbrush, piece of dental floss and pictures of mouthwash along with card stock and glue. Help the children glue the toothbrush on the card stock paper along with the floss and pictures of other dental hygiene tools. Help the kids write down why each tool is important directly under the picture of each physical object. This simple project is best suited for small children.
Dental Tools Blocks
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Give each child three or more plain blocks and some paint. Show them pictures or give them real objects to look at to inspire their paintings. Help them paint different dental tools on each block like floss, mouthwash and toothbrushes. Small children can paint the blocks solid colors and then put dental stickers on the blocks, once the paint is dry.
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References
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