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January 16, 2021

Dental Health for Kids Videos and Activities for 2021

Young girl smiling at a lady dental hygienist anticipating getting her teeth cleaned with the words "Dental Health activities, First Grade Frame of Mind".

It’s that time of year to teach and review dental health to your primary students. I see you, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade teachers. Let’s get you some resources to help you make dental health month fun with kid-friendly activities!

First, you’ll find videos on visiting the dentist, how to brush our teeth properly, why we even brush our teeth, and finally how our teeth work and wiggly teeth.

So, you have all the videos. Then, what about some engaging, kid-friendly activities? Well, keep scrolling down past the videos to see more fun stuff.

Videos

Presentation slides

At the beginning, start a conversation about the foods that are good and not so good for teeth with this slideshow. As you go, you’ll find lots of interesting information about the benefits of the good foods, and why teeth dislike certain foods. As always, there are additional reminders to brush and floss no matter what we eat. Cute happy, healthy tooth and sad tooth with cavity. Click here to see more about this dental health month unit for primary students.

Now, this can easily be projected to the whole class. Since the videos above helped with teaching students how to keep teeth healthy, then you’ll need more information about the foods that our teeth need to stay healthy. Specifically, you’ll find lots of information about why each food is good or bad for teeth. As usual, kid-friendly clip art helps to easily engage elementary students. Sample slides from dental health month unit for primary students saying "Enjoy these foods often. Brushing and flossing daily is still important", "Which foods are bad for your teeth?", "Pickles aren't as sweet as soda, but they have the bad acids that ruin teeth", "Which foods are good for your teeth?" with various labeled clip art images of foods. Click here to see more about this dental health month unit for primary students.

Activities

At the end of the presentation, students will discuss the foods to be listed in the last slide. Now, they’ll determine foods that are good or bad for our teeth. After this, students can do the cut, sort and glue activity with ease. Printable pages: one sorting mat labeled "Good for Teeth" and "Bad for Teeth" and one cut-out food images with labels. Click here to see more about this dental health month unit for primary students.

In addition, students use their pencil like a toothbrush. So, they’ll follow the path across the tooth on the page to get rid of all the bad fuzzies left behind that cause cavities. As soon as they get through the maze, they’ll arrive next to the healthy and smiling mouth full of clean teeth. Coupled with this is even an optional dot-to-dot counting that goes as high as 30 that allows students to make their own outline of a big tooth. Printable tooth images: 1) a maze with cavities 2) dot-to-dot numbers 1-30 3) tooth puzzle. Click here to see more about this dental health month unit for primary students.

At last, encourage students to draw and write about good foods and healthy habits on the tooth puzzle pieces. This gives students a chance to show the healthy things they like to eat and tools they use daily to keep their teeth healthy and clean. To conclude their learning, they can cut out their puzzle and trade with another student to put together another puzzle to see all the ways their friends take good care of their teeth.

See more about this

complete dental health unit

by clicking here

or on the image below.

Fun teaching ideas for kids that dentists love to fill up those lesson plans for dental health month. Use the graphic organizer worksheets to sort foods for healthy eating and foods that make cavities but children love to eat. In this post you'll find all this and more cute ideas! {February, October, teacher blogs elementary, dental health videos for kids}

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Filed Under: Dental Health, February, First Grade, For Kids, Kindergarten, October, School Year, Science, Technology in the classroom, Videos

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