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Circle Time
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Block Area
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Dramatic Play Area
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Fine Motor/ Gross Motor
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Table Top/ Cognitive
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Sensory Play & Creative Arts
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Special Activity
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- Take pictures of children’s smiles
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Obstacle Course
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Dentist Office –White smocks/
shirts, flashlight, lawn chair
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“Mr. Mouth” Toy Teeth with toothbrushes
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Matching pictures/ flashcards of dental health items
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Toothpaste in a zip-loc bag to manipulate
- Make X-Rays of Teeth (white chalk, black paper)
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Start Tooth brushing Chart
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Berenstein Bears “Visit To the Dentist” Book
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Ride On Toys
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Add Play X-Rays & Tools
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Tooth Fairy Search and Find Game (hidden pictures teeth around room)
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Put out pictures of smiles and have children identify each other by these
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Toothpaste in sensory table w toothbrushes –make designs
-Smell variety of toothpastes
-Painting white paint on pictures of teeth using toothbrushes
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-“This is the Way you Brush Your Teeth”
-Soak hardboiled egg in soda, brush brown w toothpaste –discuss results
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Ramps with Ride-On Toys
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Add Dolls and toothbrushes
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- Dental floss string tooth (cardboard teeth with hole punch-outs)
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-Good/Bad for Teeth Food Game using pictures
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-White and Black Play dough –teeth/cavities
-Making Dental Impressions on Styrofoam plates -compare results
-String painting (tooth floss)
- Picture collage (cut pictures of smiles/teeth out of magazines)
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Homemade toothpaste
(4 tsp baking soda,
1 tsp salt,
1 tsp favourite extract flavour)
Combine all ingredients & store in airtight container.
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Dora “Show Me Your Smile” Book
-The Missing Tooth Game (child is ‘tooth’& leaves circle)
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Balance Beams
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“Dentist in Training” Game (marshmallows in Kleenex box –only one has cavity –use tongs to find)
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Aluminum Foil Filling Activity –children place ‘fillings’ on toys around the room
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Box of Mixed toothbrushes –matching game
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Brushing Teeth at sink, rinsing and spitting
-Tracing Teeth Stencils
-Making masks using napkins and string
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Pretending to be tooth (coming through gum, grow, wiggling, falling out)
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Pin the Tooth on the Mouth
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Dental Check-Up before and after lunch –with mirrors and flashlights
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“The Germ” Game of Tag
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Stringing objects onto Dental Floss
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Sensory Guessing Game –pillowcase of toothpaste tubes, floss, mouthwash bottle, etc
- Hippo Tooth Game –mini marshmallows with cavities - clothespins to find ‘cavities’
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Dental Hygienist Visit
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Program Statement
