February
is
National Children's Dental Health Month
About NCDHM
The annual observance of children's dental health began as a one-day event in Cleveland, Ohio on February 3, 1941. During that year, February 3-7 was designated as Children's Dental Health Week in Akron, Ohio.
The American Dental Association held the first national observance of Children's Dental Health Day on February 8, 1949. This single day observance became a week-long event in 1955. In 1981, the program was extended to a month-long celebration known today as National Children's Dental Health Month.
Since 1941, the observance has grown from a two-city event into a nationwide program. NCDHM messages reach millions of people in communities across the country and at numerous armed service bases abroad. Local observances often include poster, coloring, and essay contests, health fairs, free dental screenings, museum exhibits, classroom presentations and dental office tours.
ADA - Downloadable puzzles, games, & coloring pages
Dental Health Activities -Puppet pattern, songbook, and puzzles presented by the "SMILES" dental health program of San Diego County. Source has information on brushing, flossing, and more
Dental Health Activity Sheets - Four activity sheets from the Canadian Dental Association. Choose from crossword puzzle, maze, dot-to-dot, and word find puzzle
Healthy Teeth - An oral health education database featuring simple activities and experiments as well as easy to understand text for grades 3 to 6
Anne Pieratt-Tolbert, RDH - NCDHM Activities and Games - Collection of tooth-related experiments, patterns, and language arts activities to help children brush up on dental health issues. The toothfairy will answer e-mail
Oral-B Teaching Aids -Teach your students the basics of oral care with these lessons for primary and intermediate students
Tooth Tally Project - First grade classes may participate in Wilburn Elementary's Tooth Tally Project by counting, collecting data, sorting, and graphing the number of baby teeth lost by the children
Brushing & Flossing to a Healthy Smile - Third grade students experiment to determine how brushing and flossing removes plaque with this AskERIC lesson plan
Dental Health - AskERIC lesson teaches first graders how to brush and floss their teeth
Dentist Wordsearch Puzzle - A printable wordsearch puzzle on the topics of the dentist and dental health
Fun with Elementary School Dental Health Education - Teach young students about the health benefits of good dental hygiene and the importance of eating healthy snacks with this AskERIC lesson
Healthy Teeth - Dental health is demonstrated using a simple experiment which allows youngsters to understand why their teeth can become stained
The Importance of Brushing Your Teeth - AskEric lesson uses a set of modeled teeth and a large toothbrush to demonstrate the correct way to brush and floss teeth
Tooth Anatomy Printout - Short paragraph and a labeled tooth drawing to print out and use with young students. Includes glossary of tooth related vocabulary
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