Happy Race To Lose A Tooth: A Counting Game {Dinosaur Develop Review & Giveaway}
December 26, 2018
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We are joining our friends from PBS Kid's Dinosaur Train to celebrate National Children’s Dental Health Month as well as Valentine's Day!
As business office of the Super Smile squad nosotros are helping to remind kids (and parents) to brand oral wellness a priority this month... as well as always!
The Jim Hensen Company sent us a super cool packet before this calendar week to aid us boot off our celebration.
Here's what was included inward our package:
- a re-create of the all-new Dinosaur Train: I Love Dinosaurs DVD from PBS Distribution
- a Dinosaur Train themed GUM® twin pack toothbrush set
- a re-create of the Little Golden Book Buddy’s Teeth.
Once the packet arrived it was ripped opened upwards as well as nosotros watched our novel Dinosaur Train: I Love Dinosaurs DVD correct away followed past times several readings of the Little Golden Book Buddy’s Teeth.
The Dinosaur Train: I Love Dinosaurs DVD was a hit. My kids receive got been long fourth dimension fans of Dinosaur Train (although my almost half dozen year-old tries to human activity similar he is also cool for it now). They watched the demo from starting fourth dimension to end... enthralled... as well as my fille said she wanted to "watch it forever as well as ever." She also had a giant meltdown when nosotros had to plough it off... hence I intend she liked it. :)
Buddy’s Teeth is an adorable floor that tells nearly how Buddy (a T.Rex) loses his foremost tooth! It is a fleck of a traumatic sense for him as well as he proceeds to larn all nearly how teeth grow as well as how to hold his breath fresh too. :)
Here's a quick movie I snapped of my kids reading Buddy’s Teeth together. They loved the mass as well as were completely fascinated learning nearly T.Rex teeth. It gave us a adept chance to utter nearly how our teeth are different.
After reading Buddy's Teeth, nosotros decided to do a piffling activity inspired past times the book. We created a elementary counting game called Race to Lose a Tooth.
Race to Lose a Tooth
Materials Needed: mini marshmallows, muffin tins or cups, 2 pieces of pinkish paper, scissors, a die, as well as a dark marker.
It powerfulness appear a fleck featherbrained to endure using marshmallows inward an activity when nosotros are talking nearly oral health... but I could non for the life of me intend of a amend affair to run for this activity. If I had piffling white erasers I would've preferred that... hence volition demand to become searching for some.
Materials Prep:
Fold your ii pinkish papers inward one-half as well as cutting it to await similar ii opened upwards mouths (one for each player)... only similar your oral fissure volition await when y'all receive got it broad opened upwards at the dentist. Then depict several piffling circles only about the edges of the papers to serve equally spots for teeth. You tin depict a lot of circles... or solely receive got a few (depending on the ages of kids y'all are working with).
Put several marshmallows inward a muffin tin liner, choose handgrip of a transcend as well as y'all are ready to play!
How to play:
To start off the game the kids demand to house a marshmallow on each circle hence that each thespian starts amongst a total oral fissure of marshmallow "teeth."
Once each oral fissure is total of teeth, players receive got turns rolling the die.
Whatever release i fry rolls is how many teeth he "loses." He as well as hence has to withdraw that many teeth from his board as well as set them dorsum inward the muffin tin liner.
Then the side past times side thespian rolls as well as does the same thing. Players race to come across who tin acquire rid of their teeth the fastest!
As players acquire closer to having all their teeth gone they demand to curlicue an exact release to lose all of them. For example, if a thespian has three teeth left, he needs to curlicue a three to acquire out... or he needs to curlicue a 2 followed past times a 1 to acquire out... he can't only curlicue a v as well as receive got three off the board.
The thespian to receive got a blank board FIRST is the winner.
This game tin also easily endure played past times only having kids curlicue the transcend as well as receive got away teeth without whatever competitive component... if they don't similar that sort of thing. My kids do... hence they loved this. The kids practiced reading numbers on a die, counting marshmallows, as well as my older boy fifty-fifty worked on a piffling subtraction.
We played the game several times as well as I did allow the kids swallow a marshmallow or ii (or sometimes a handful) betwixt rounds. This gave us a non bad argue to become as well as run our novel Dinosaur Train toothbrushes past times GUM®!
After nosotros played, nosotros brushed our teeth as well as nosotros watched the balance of Dinosaur Train.
We liked the Dinosaur Train themed GUM® twin pack toothbrush set because 1) they receive got dinosaurs on them as well as 2) because they receive got a viscid base of operations that makes them super slow to stand upwards up side past times side to the sink. The colors were perfect for my kids too... since they both similar bluish as well as green, hence at that topographic point was no fighting over who got which brush. Hooray!
In add-on to having a fun fourth dimension amongst our cool Dinosaur Train package, nosotros had a non bad household unit of measurement give-and-take nearly oral health.
Here are a few tips nosotros shared hence that our kids receive got rigid teeth as well as a good for y'all smile...
1. Twice a day: Brush your teeth when y'all wake upwards as well as before y'all become to bed.
2. Take your time: Brush your teeth for 2 minutes as well as endure certain to include your tongue!
3. Be sort to your gums: Brush amongst a soft bristle toothbrush.
4. Get the difficult to achieve places: Floss your teeth at bedtime.
5. See your Dentist twice a year!
Disclosure: The Jim Hensen Company provided the giveaway items for gratis for Toddler Approved readers as well as for us to review. Thank you!
We appreciate the sponsors of this giveaway, hence if y'all receive got a s to nation give thank y'all you or give a quick follow to these awesome companies, we'd dear it.
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