Dental Health Activities for Preschoolers

Dental Health Activities for Preschoolers

Brush up on your little one’s oral hygiene skills with these fun dental health activities for preschoolers. They are sure to love them!

Dental Health Activities for Preschoolers

Why Teach Preschoolers about Dental Health

Educating little ones about dental health is a wonderful way to help explain their bodies to them. They learn how to keep their bodies running in tip-top shape through nutrition and physical activities.


Why not teach them how to keep their mouths healthy, too?

Preschoolers aren’t born knowing how their bodies work, so it’s our job as their grown-ups to show them how to care for their bodies.

Fun dental health activities for preschoolers are great ways to teach how to hold a toothbrush, the circle motion used to clean their teeth, and how to floss.

Dental Health Activities for Preschoolers

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The exceptional thing about dental health activities for preschoolers is that they are visual.

Instead of trying to see inside their dark mouths to learn how to brush and floss, little ones can see right away with these activities if they missed a spot or if something is still stuck between the teeth.

Another great benefit of doing these dental health activities for preschoolers is that they are excellent fine motor practice. Learning to grip a toothbrush or hold a string requires strong hand muscles. These tiny muscles come in handy when it’s time to hold a pencil.

Starting preschoolers early on dental health is a fabulous way to get them to help take care of their mouths.

Dental Health Activities for Preschoolers

Dental Health Activities for Preschoolers

Read Books about Dental Health

Books are wonderful for explaining the mouth and tongue. They can also teach how to brush. Other books explain what happens at dental cleanings, making it less scary for preschoolers to visit the dentist.

Check out our list of books about teeth.

Brush Off the Letter (or Number or Shape)

Print off a picture of a mouth that has teeth on it. Cover the sheet with Contact Paper, laminate it, or place it inside a gallon-sized bag.

Write a different letter, number, or shape on each tooth using a dry-erase marker.

Have your preschooler say the item’s name, then use a circular motion to brush it off one tooth with a toothbrush.

Dental Health Activities for Preschoolers

Block Flossing

Grab a big block and some play dough. Roll a small piece of play dough into a snake. Push the play dough down between the block’s prongs.

Floss out the play dough from between the teeth using a piece of yarn, string, or a chenille stem.

Paint a Tooth

Draw a giant tooth on a sheet of construction paper. Use a toothbrush instead of a paintbrush to apply white paint to the tooth.

Mouth Shaped Snack

Cut an apple into wedges. Add peanut butter to one side of each apple wedge using two wedges. Lay the apple slices so the peanut butter is facing up. Add mini marshmallows to make teeth.

Construction Paper Mouth

Gather a sheet of pink construction paper, white paper, scissors, and glue.

Fold the pink paper hamburger style. Start at the fold and cut an arch (like a rainbow shape) so the other end of the arch meets back at the fold. This will create a big mouth.

Unfold the paper. Keep it open (like a mouth opening wide).

Cut the white paper into small white squares (teeth).

Let your preschooler glue to the white squares around the edge of the inside of the mouth.

Enjoy opening and shutting the mouth to make it talk.

Dental Health Activities for Preschoolers

Egg Stain Experiment

This experiment, one of the fun dental health activities for preschoolers, takes a bit of time because the ‘teeth’ (eggs) need time to get stained.

Hard boil some white eggs. Choose different liquids to stain your eggs. Try coffee, dark juice, tea, and any other colored beverage.

However many liquids you choose, you’ll need that amount of bowls.

Put one hard-boiled egg in each bowl. Pour a different liquid into each bowl until the egg is covered. Mark the bowls so you remember what the liquid is.

Allow the eggs to sit for a few days until the egg is stained.

Use a toothbrush and toothpaste to remove the stain from the egg. You may be surprised at how hard some stains are to get off.

Make a Smile Collage

Flip through magazines and have your preschooler cut out different smiles. Then, they can glue them onto a piece of paper to make a smile collage.

Dental Health Activities for Preschoolers

Activities to Teach Preschoolers about Dental Health

Try out some dental health activities for preschoolers to make learning to brush and floss a bit easier. The larger models make it easier for your little one to see if there are any ‘plaque’ spots left and to get their technique down before applying it to their brushing routine.

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