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20 Fun and Easy Dental Activities for Preschoolers

dental activities for preschoolers

March 15, 2022 //  by Eileen Zajac

Educational activities that teach children proper tooth brushing practice will help your students to develop strong oral health habits. Teaching positive dental care and understanding at a young age will help the child practice good oral health care throughout their entire lives. To help teachers do that, we've compiled a list of 20 educational ideas that will help you teach dental health in the classroom!

1. Brush Away Practice

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How do you combine math and dental hygiene? SIMPLE! Look at this fun shape brushing activity that includes both preschool math and preschool brushing techniques. Your students will love this fun activity.

Learn more: Uplift and Encourage Academy

2. Dental Scissor Skills

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Incorporate building motor skills in your dental health activities this year. Have students cut out toothbrushes and teeth to make a whole class collage!

Learn more: Kiddie Tales

3. Dental Matching

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Make a simple activity plan for this fun matching activity that will help teach your students about the different care resources we have to use on our teeth. See if they have any of these items at home!

Learn more: Mom at Home

4. Toothbrush Patterns

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Practice patterns with your students with this student chosen favorite activity. Simply cut and laminate the different pictures and have students make a pattern. This works great for stations and team building!

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5. Lamination Brushing

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Brushing paper teeth can be super fun and engaging for your students. With something as simple as a laminated printout of a tooth, students can use real toothpaste and toothbrushes to practice their circular brushing motions!

Learn more: First Beginnings Preschool

6. Playdough Teeth

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Make some excellent model teeth for your classroom simply out of red playdough and some plastic teeth! Have your students help you to put the teeth in the correct spots.

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7. Counting Teeth

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Clever resources like these little plastic teeth can be used for so many different activities! Counting teeth is just one of many. Have students roll the dice and place that number of teeth in the paper mouth.

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8. Read and Brush!

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We all know how important it is to incorporate literacy activities into our daily classroom. Using a book like Snappy Croc in your dentist lesson plan is sure to enhance your student's understanding and learning!

Learn more: Instagram

9. Paint a Tooth

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Make this tooth white! Students will absolutely love to paint with toothbrushes. It will help them practice their brushing techniques while also making super cute dental crafts to display in the classroom.

Learn more: Southern Family Dental Group

10. Glue, Draw & Brush

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Building motor skills and strong teeth should all be the main focus of preschool and dental health months. Teeth activities like building an alligator with a mouth full of teeth do exactly that!

Learn more: Instagram

11. Floss, Floss, and Floss Some More

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Plastic toy teeth flossing practice is so important for a basic understanding of what it really means to floss your teeth. Students will gain an understanding of what happens if you don't floss!

Learn more: Instagram

12. Pom Pom Fun

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Another flossing activity that might be a bit easier and less messy than the aforementioned is to use pom-poms instead of playdough. This is better for younger learners or students who need to practice motor skills.

Learn more: The Dad Lab

13. Brushing Puppets

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A hands-down favorite dental health activity is this puppet! Built printed construction worksheets and mini marshmallow teeth, these cute puppets can be used to brush and display! Your students will have so much fun.

Learn more: Malaysia Dental

14. Toothy Shapes

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Dental health printable activities can be so helpful on those days that you just need a little break from cutting and pasting! Toothy shapes do just that! Have students work on this at home or in the classroom.

Learn more: A Sunny Day in First Grade

15. Brush Santa's Teeth

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Hands-on learning activities have proven time and time again to have a better outcome on student understanding. Brushing Santa's teeth is one way to practice their brushing techniques! Maybe have a lesson on the amount of sugar in all of the cookies that Santa eats.

Learn more: The Foreign Mom

16. Good and Bad Sort

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Instilling healthy habits in our little ones is super important for their growth and prosperity. One way to do that is to separate good and bad foods and talk about how they affect your teeth.

Learn more: The Printable Princess

17. Brushing Time Race

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Simple dental health worksheets can sometimes be all you need to get your kiddos thinking about their own dental health. Spark the conversation of what they use and need in their homes to make sure their mouths are healthy!

Learn more: Planning Playtime

18. Dental Letter Find

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Alphabet worksheets are constantly used throughout pre-K pages, why not use one that matches up with teaching hygiene to preschoolers. This is a great way to do just that!

Learn more: Live, Love, Motherhood

19. Flossing Fun Bulletin Board

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Teaching proper teeth hygiene starts with positive reinforcement. Clever ideas like this flossing fun bulletin board send a positive message to all of our little minds.

Learn more: Instagram

20. Flossing Model

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Hands-on activities with mini-marshmallows are always engaging. This is another flossing activity that students will love and teachers will be able to easily create!

Learn more: Truly Hand Picked

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