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Preschool Dental Health Theme

Below you can find tons of fun and engaging Dental Health Activities! Pick and choose the activities for your lesson or download a free copy of our Dental Health Preschool Lesson Plan to save you time!
Free Dental Health Preschool Lesson Plan
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Planning your Dental Health Theme

Club Members can download all of our Dental Health Activities and
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Free Dental Health Preschool Lesson Plan

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Preschool Dental Health Art & Creativity

Painting with a Toothbrush

Invite your preschooler to paint with a toothbrush
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Tic-Tac Teeth


This project was shared by our friends at  Monica's Monsters. You can press tic tacs into colored modeling clay or dough to create your own teeth model. Once it hardens (after several days), you can use it to demonstrate proper flossing techniques.

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Finger Paint Tooth Painting

Finger paint Tooth Painting- Reader Monica V. of Monica's Monsters had her kids paint the yellowed Teeth white using finger paints. She also suggested having the older children use a paintbrush for this activity.
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Painting a Stained Tooth

Reader Sheena W. of Building Blocks invited her preschoolers to use a toothbrush to paint yellow teeth white. 
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                               Healthy Teeth Collage

Cut out images from magazines that are healthy for your teeth. Create a collage using these items, by gluing them onto a large tooth cutout.
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Dentist Office-Dramatic Play

Our Reader Liza D, set up this adorable Dentist Office Dramatic Play Space using our Dentist Office Dramatic Play Set.
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Dentist Office Dramatic Play

Add a waiting area for your patients: Set it up with chairs and magazines. Use a Highchair for the Dolls/Stuffed Animals to get their "Teeth Examined"
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Community Member Brittney S.
Consider adding the following items to your play space: Dental Tools, Toothbrushes, Pretend Play Medical Tools, Charts, Xrays, small flashlights. You can find quite a few of these items at the Dollar Store.
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Dentist Charades

Whisper an action to your student actor or show them a card depicting various dental health actions (Brushing Teeth, Rinsing, Tooth Ache, Flossing, getting an X-ray, etc). Have your student act out the action without talking, and the other students guess.
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Dress-Up in Scrubs

Add scrubs to your dress-up clothes
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Dental Health Building and Small World Play Ideas

Dentist Small World Play

Gather materials and set up the dentist small world play area including the dentist chair, dental tools (mirror, toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, etc.), and small toy patients.  Have your preschooler practice taking care of their toy patients' teeth.

​Learn how to print our Dentist Dramatic Play Pack so it prints multiple pages per sheet to fit in your small world play area.


Dentist small world play

Build a Mouth

After researching and discussing mouths and teeth, build a model of a mouth using various building materials. This example uses white cups for the teeth and cardboard for the mouth. An added fun game is to use pom poms as germs for kids to clean up. 
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Language & Literacy Dental Theme Activities

Teeth Flip and Brush Letter Matching

This game from the Dental Preschool Activity Pack is a great addition to this theme for preschoolers working on letter identification and case matching.
Slip the mat into a page protector or laminate, then color in the teeth with a dry erase marker.
Your preschooler will flip over a tooth letter card, identify the letter, then find and brush the matching tooth on the mat.
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Dental Health Pre-Writing Practice

Help preschoolers get an understanding that print flows from left to right and practice tracing with this activity page from the Dental Health Preschool Activity Pack
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Dentist Office Seek and Find

Learn new dental health vocabulary and build visual discrimination skills by playing this dental health seek and find activity.
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Tooth Fairy Story Writing

Make up a story about the tooth fairy. Work on a plot with your preschooler, provide some examples as needed to support brain storming. The tooth fairy on their day off, the tooth fairy visiting the dentist...endless options! 
Jot down the story as it's told to retell again later. 
This is a fun one-on-one activity or with a small group. 
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Practice Singing your ABC's or other songs while you brush your teeth

In order to make sure you are brushing your teeth long enough, sing your ABC's as you brush! Practice by pretending to brush teeth.

​Brush, Brush Your Teeth

Sing to Row Row Row Your Boat
Brush, Brush brush your teeth.
Brush them till their clean
Scrub and scrub away the plague
Wash wash them down the drain ​
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Sing Songs About Brushing Teeth

Sing and Dance along to Raffi's Brush your teeth song.
Another fun song that encourages preschoolers to learn the correct way to brush with a fun Blippi song.
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Good for Your Teeth Letter Activity

Go through each letter of the alphabet with your preschoolers and have them name a food that is healthy for their teeth.
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Why We Go to the Dentist Pre-K Book Companion

Make learning about dental health enjoyable and memorable with this thoughtfully curated Why We Go to the Dentist Pre-K Book Companion  Download and print your copy today to bring the magic of reading to life in your preschool classroom or homeschool setting.


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Dentists
by Mari Schuh
I Want to Be a Dentist by Dan Liebman
The Tooth Book by Dr. Seuss and Joe Mathieu
Brush Your Teeth, Please: A Pop-Up Book by Jean Pidgeon
Dentists Help by Dee Ready
A Trip to the Dentist by Penny Smith
Curious George Visits the Dentist by H.A Rey
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Math

Tooth Fairy Teeth Counting Game

Practice matching numerals to quantities as well as counting aloud while playing this Tooth Fairy Teeth Counting Game included in our Dental Health Activity Pack
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Brush My Smile Game

Practice math skills independently or with a friend with this Teeth Brushing Game Mat included in our Dental Health Activity Pack.
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Toothbrush Puzzle

Practice ordering numbers 1-10 with this toothbrush puzzle found inside our Dental Health Activity Pack.
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Toothbrush Size Sorting

Inside our Dental Health Activity pack you'll find this sorting activity designed to help young children practice sorting toothbrushes by size. You can also purchase a variety of child-sized and adult-sized toothbrushes from your local dollar store and practice sorting them by small and large.
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Toothbrushing Sequencing

Set out props for children to sequence the events that take place when brushing their teeth. Toothbrush, Toothpaste, Cup.
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 Physical Development Preschool Ideas for your Dental Health Theme

Practice Flossing

Member Sheena W. put play dough in Mega Bloks for kids to practice using floss! Fantastic for hand strength and control, and a great lesson for oral hygiene. 
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Play Dough Dental Play

Add this Doctor Drill-n-Fill set to your dough center for children to explore!
Children can create teeth and braces and pretend to give their patient a filling and clean their teeth. 
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Teeth Hammering & Pulling

Use golf tees to create teeth by cutting off the ends. Create "gums" using pink play dough. Provide your student with a hammer, tweezers, and teeth to practice hammering and pulling teeth. 
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Dentist Tray Relay

Using photos, or dental health bingo game  from our activity pack, create a dentist tray relay game.
Students flip over a card and find and remove the item from dental tray.
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Do the Floss Dance

Watch your favorite video tutorial for how to do the floss dance. Can you make up your own dental health dance?
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Dental Health Preschool Science & Discovery Activities

Happy Teeth Sad Teeth Sorting Activity

Explore what types of foods contribute more often to developing cavities with this sorting activity found in our Dental Health Activity Pack.
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Elephant Toothpaste Experiment

This experiment is an explosion of fun for preschoolers. Get all the details for how to make elephant toothpaste on the blog.
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Dental Hygiene Experiment

Soda and juice contain sugar & acid that is harsh on the enamel of our teeth. This experiment demonstrates what sugary and acidic drinks can do to your teeth.

Find more details and tips on our blog
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Talk about Fears surrounding the Dentist

Dental Health is an important topic for preschoolers. They are learning how to take care of themselves and learning about important people in the community. Talking about Dental Health gives children an opportunity to learn more about taking care of themselves, about the work dentist do, and it also helps alleviate  Children's fears around trips to the Dentist.

Be sure to check with your local Pediatric Dentist, sometimes they can arrange a visit with your preschoolers, or give you free resources and "Goody Bags" for the children in your care.


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Class  Survey

Ask friends and family what color their toothbrush is, track the results and count up the totals.
These printables are included in my Dental Health Preschool Pack
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Guess the Smile

Create a classroom display full of smiles and invite children to guess which smile belongs to which friend.
Member Karen J. created this great Smile Display!
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Learn How to Properly Brush Your Teeth

Practice Brushing Teeth this week. Provide toothbrushes, water, Toothpaste, and Fake Teeth.
You can also use the bottom of Foam Egg Containers, White Ice Cube Trays flipped over, or the Bottoms of Soda Bottles (that you paint white) to re-create the look of large teeth.
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Take a Field Trip

Take a field trip to the dentist or have one visit.
An alternative is to watch a video tour of a dentist office like this one from Kid Vision
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Educator Resources

Dental Health Sign-in Activity

​Welcome your students to class with this engaging name recognition activity. 
Includes a variety of themes and available in the shop!
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Shop for Dental Health Products

Dental Health Preschool Activity Pack

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Dentist Dramatic Play Pack

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Why we go to the Dentist Book Companion

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Choose a Theme:

A-E
All About Me
Apples
Arctic Animals and Ice
Around the World
Birds
Camping
Caterpillars & Butterflies
Circus
Clouds Wind Rain
Construction & Building
Deck the Halls
Dental Health
Dinosaurs
Earth Day & Recycling

Easter
F-M
Fall Leaves & Trees
Family & Home
Farm
Father's Day
Fire Safety
Flowers & Bees
Fourth of July
Friendship & Kindness
Fun in the Summer Sun
​Gingerbread & Sweet Treats
Growing Fruits & Vegetables (Gardening)
Halloween
Insects
Library Fun
Medieval Fantasy & Fairy Tales
Mother's Day
Movies & Popcorn
N-R
New Years
Nocturnal Animals Day/Night
Nursery Rhymes
Ocean Animals Under the Sea
Outer Space
Penguins
Pets
Picnics
Pirates and Tropical Island
Pond Animals
Post Office 
Pumpkins
Rainbows
Robots
Rocks Dirt & Mud
S-Z
Santa and His Helpers
Scarecrows, Crows, & Corn
Snakes
Snow & Snowmen
Spiders
Spring Cleaning
Squirrels and Acorns
St. Patrick's Day
Transportation
Turkeys & Thanksgiving
Valentines Day
Winter Clothes & Staying Warm
Winter Sports
Woodland Forest Animals
Worms, Snails, Slugs
Zoo Animals

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Preschool Learning Centers are commonly referred to as Preschool Centers, or Learning Spaces. These are activity areas dedicated to a specific type of of play and exploring a variety of topics and activities. Download our Free set of Center Signs!
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