Dental Health Activities Pack

Description

Engage your preschool and kindergarten students in hands-on learning with this fun Dental Health Activities Pack. Both color and black and white formats are included, where possible, to suit your individual printing needs.

What’s included in this Dental Health Activities Pack?

• Dental Words: A one-page poster featuring nine dental vocabulary words with accompanying pictures.

• Brush Your Teeth: Posters and resources to display in the bathroom and discuss to ensure effective tooth brushing.
• Food Sorting: Students sort the food cards between two mats: Food that is good for my teeth vs Food that is bad for my teeth. A cut and paste worksheet is also included.
• Part of the Tooth Posters: A set of colorful and age-appropriate posters for students to learn the parts of the tooth. Plus, a set of labeling worksheets to further consolidate understanding.
• Dentist Office I Spy: Using the I Spy Card, students search the dentist office picture and mark off each item as they find it.
• Tooth Tracker Chart: A mat for tracking each tooth as it is lost and the date.
• Certificates: Certificates and cards for students to commemorate losing a tooth.
• Toothbrush Color Match: Students match the different colored toothpaste to the matching toothbrush.

Literacy Activities Include:

• Alphabet Hunt & Trace: Students look for the target letter on these activity mats and trace the match when they find it.
• Going to the Dentist Sequencing: Students read each of the steps for going to the dentist then order the steps in the correct sequence.

Math Activities Include:

• Brush off the Germs: Students select a card and draw the same number of germs on their tooth activity mat. Then they use a toothbrush to brush each of the germs away.
• Germ Counting: Students select a card and add the same number of germ tokens to the tooth activity mat.
• Number Activity Mats: A fun activity mat where students count the teeth, add the same number of tokens to the jar, trace the numeral and number word, and match three cards modeling that number.
• Toothbrush Measurement: Students use Unifix cubes, mini erasers or other informal units to measure each of the toothbrushes on these activity cards.
• Toothpaste Patterns: Students use colored counting cubes to copy each of the patterns on these activity cards. A worksheet is also included for students to create their own toothpaste patterns.
• Lion Teeth Counting: Students pick a card and add the correct number of teeth to the lion activity mat.
• Teeth Counting Clip Cards: Students count the teeth on each card and clip the correct number.
• Count the Germs: A cut and paste counting worksheet with numbers 1 to 10.
• Teeth Tens Frames: Students color the correct number of teeth to match the number.

Fine Motor Activities include:

• Playdough Mats: Students use these mats to make dental shapes using playdough.
• Floss Shapes: Students use a dry erase marker to trace each of the floss box shapes.
• Trace the Letters: Students practice tracing each lowercase letter of the alphabet on this worksheet.
• Trace the Lines: Students trace the various lines on the tooth.

This Dental Health Activities Pack is perfect for the following learning settings:

⭐ As part of your morning work during dental health week.

⭐ As a literacy or math center activity while learning about dental health.

⭐ As a display in your classroom or bathroom to promote dental health and habits.

How to prepare these Dental Health Activities?

✂️ Simply print and laminate each component, if desired. 

✂️ Both color and black and white formats are included where possible to suit your individual printing needs.

Suggested materials:

✏️ Pencils/Coloring materials

✏️ Scissors

✏️ Glue

✏️ Unifix cubes

✏️ Tooth mini erasers or other manipulatives to represent teeth

✏️ Clothespins

✏️ Play dough

✏️ Dry erase markers

✏️ Toothbrush