Fun Activities For Dental Health Month
February is Dental Health Month. So why not use this observance as an opportunity to encourage good dental hygiene for your kids? Whether you're a concerned parent, health professional, or teacher there are some great free activities you can give your youngsters that will happily focus their attention on dental health. The website, Toothcity.com, offers endless choices on both their main page and their blog.
First, you can download a copy of the Buddy Brush Milk Matters Coloring Book directly from its Tooth City graphic on the home page. But that's only the beginning! Click on the link to the http://toothcity.com blog and you'll find activities galore! Scroll down to the Tooth Fairy Games section and you're kids will never run out of things to do. There are links to some of the best dental hygiene activities on the web! There are crosswords, coloring pages, mazes, connect the dots, word searches, word jumbles... the list goes on and on. An unusual find is a link to an online video game with a silly tooth fairy theme that actually teaches antonyms.
There's a cool experiment you can easily do that shows the effect of acid on your teeth. Want to learn how to floss? Just link to a great coloring page instruction sheet. You can also learn dental words in Spanish and fun dental trivia. Do your kids like board games? There are two you can print out. Or maybe you'd rather play a dental rhyming game.
As if all these activities weren't enough, toothcity.com also has tooth fairy and dental health poems. Is your child a budding poet? Toothcity.com is asking for submissions of poetry and stories written by kids. If art is your thing, then send in a tooth fairy drawing to add in to the toothcity.com/blog tooth fairy drawings gallery. Need a break from all the industrious fun? Sit back and enjoy the slew of tooth fairy and dental health videos. There are also videos of that special moment when kids lose their first tooth. You'll be laughing in no time.
If you don't mind spending a little petty cash, then build on all these activities with the Tooth Fairy Tales CD sold by http://toothcity.com. It stars the Tooth Fairy in four dramatized adventures in which she fights villains like the Cavity Monster and Bad Breath. She even saves the decaying Planet Epage_seo_titlel! With Tooth Fairy Tales you can keep the dental health fun going throughout the year.
So now you know Dental Health Month doesn't have to be boring. http://Toothcity.com has great dental hygiene education that brings along guaranteed giggles and smiles.
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