Virginia Health Care Foundation

Welcome to Brushing Up – Tooth Talk for Kids

While we all understand the importance of educating young children about oral health care, it can be hard to find fun ways to engage them on the topic.

To help, VHCF has developed Brushing Up —Tooth Talk for Kids, a toolkit of entertaining and age-appropriate materials to help educate and motivate elementary school children to take care of their teeth.

The Brushing Up toolkit is a combination of electronic and hardcopy materials. All of the electronic materials are posted here so you can easily download and use them. These materials have been categorized by age range to accommodate different interests and maturity levels. You’ll see there is an array of games and pictures for coloring, plus one-page handouts about fun dental apps and electronic games that can be shared with children and/or their parents.

Brushing Up’s Electronic Materials:

Ages 3 and up: Dental Booklets:

• Sugarbug Doug (Mini-Book)
• Let’s Talk Teeth with the Tooth Fairy Activity Book

K-3: Dental Activity Sheets:

• Something’s Missing
• Finders Keepers
• Find the Differences
• Defeat Monster Mouth
• Connect the Dots

Grades 4 -5: Dental Activity Sheets:

• Defeat Monster Mouth Word Search
• Watch your Mouth
• Teeth to Treasure Word Search
• A-MAZE-ing Message
• Word Decoder

Fun Dental Apps:

• Summary of Dental Apps

Online Dental Games and Brushing Timers:

• Tooth Defenders: Snack What Game (Ages 2-4)
• Tooth Defenders: Memory Game (Ages 2-4)
• Super ID Game (Ages 7-9)

Hardcopy Items*

• The Grosser, More Disgusting, But Still Totally Cool Mouth Book
• Make Way for Tooth Decay
• Dental Activity Fun Book with the Ocean Pals
• Packs of Crayons

*These items are available for purchase from the vendors (not VHCF).

Brushing-Up was made possible by a grant from the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation.

Last Updated on September 22, 2022