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Activities for Preschoolers on Taking Care of Your Teeth

Bad dental choices early in life can be hard to fix later. Proper dental care is vital for the overall health of both adults and children. Learning about this topic should start very early. If you are teaching this topic to a class of preschoolers, your goal should be to motivate them to take care of their teeth. One way to do this is through classroom activities.
  1. Drawing Activities

    • Use drawing activities to engage your students in the subject of dental care. Give them all some drawing paper and crayons. Tell them to draw a picture of all the things they need to take care of their teeth, such as toothpaste, a toothbrush and a box of dental floss. They could then draw a picture of someone using these things to clean his teeth.

    Toothy Productions

    • Have your kids put on a simple classroom production about taking care of their teeth. Help them make costumes out of cardboard boxes that you then paint to look like teeth. Each child will say a line in the play about teeth, such as, "Smiles should be shiny."

    Brushing Fake Teeth

    • While the kids in your class should be brushing after every meal, they may not be doing it properly. One way to address this is to bring in some toy fake teeth and have them practice with these. Give them each a toothbrush, some toothpaste and a bowl of water; tell them to practice brushing the fake teeth. By doing it this way, you can more easily tell when a child isn't doing it right and help her improve.

    Eating Right Display

    • Another aspect of proper tooth care is diet and nutrition. To address this, help your students create a display on a table that represents the things that are good and bad for your teeth. Make up a lists of these things and then give each child the task of bringing back one of those things the next day. Of course, they don't actually have to bring in the whole thing. Since an empty can of soda will do fine for representing it as one of the bad things.

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