Tooth Fairy Ideas - Lockport,IL

Our tooth fairy leaves gold/silver dollar coins. Usually one silver & one gold coin on each visit. Makes it a little more special than a regular dollar bill and the kids want to save them!

C.,

I agree with all these cute ideas already posted:

- whatever you do, plan to stick with that "theme" as you've created an expectation.

- we explained the FIRST TOOTH was the biggest deal. So our child got 5 quarters (she's 5) and a box of crayons (a big deal because she got to keep them IN her room).

- Grandma bought the tooth pillow so we made a BIG deal out of cleaning it (the tooth fairy likes shiny teeth), and putting it in the tooth pillow pocket and under her bed pillow

- don't make it all about what he gets: money or stuff. Make it about the experience and how special he must feel.
We also made a big deal out of making our daughter spaghetti and other "soft" foods until it fell out. Then she thought it was SOOO cool she could eat what she wanted, spit water out the little "space" when she brushed her teeth, took pictures (before and after) and video, etc. and called ALL the relatives to tell them her big news (the day she lost it, not the next day to brag about what she got).

I hope this helps!

Sara

I sell Discovery toys and we have a tooth pirate. You can go to my website www.discoverytoyslink.com/gsnyder
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Also for my boys first tooth we did all the different dollar coins and for each tooth after we give a gold dollar (you can get them for change in stamp machines.)

G. Snyder

What we did for my daughter when she lost her first tooth was give her $5, and I got her a really neat power toothbrush and something else little. For a boy, I would do maybe and small action figure of something he's into or maybe a car or something like that.

I made a tooth pillow. I just took a couple of pieces of felt n some yarn. I cut two pieces in the shape of a tooth and hot glued about 3/4 of the way around. I then stuffed it a little n hot glued the rest with a little yarn handle. I then cut a small felt square and glued a little pocket on the front. We put the tooth in the pocket and hang it on the kids bedpost. There's no risk of waking the kids up when you replace the tooth. I went to the bank and asked for gold n silver dollars. We usually give two for the front teeth in 3 for the molars.

Our fairy leaves fairy dust (glitter) all over the place. It is messy but FUN! And the kids LOVE it! I always received silver dollars so that is what my kids get. When my daughter lost her two front teeth the fairy also left a $5 bill as a bonus.

Hope this helps!

We used silver dollars Or matchbox cars.

Our toothfairy gives "Golden Dollars", still just at dollar. She gets them at the bank, but they are gold and in a coin. The kids love them. We have a toothfairy pillow that they hang on their bedroom door. Before we had this pillow with a pocket that hangs on their door, the teeth got lost under their pillow in their bed and the toothfairy had a hard time finding them. You could probably find a pillow with a pocket on line. I can not remember where I bought it, probably at a gift store.

Hi C. -
When the tooth fairy came to our house she must have stopped at Card Factory Outlet first and found some confetti and a cool wand. While our oldest was sleeping the tooth fairy appeared and spread all the confetti over him and his clothes and left the magic wand behind. She also left a dollar; but when he woke all he cared about was that she arrived and it was magical!

The downside of course is cleaning up all the "fairy dust". Also he thought it was rather creepy that someone came into his room in the night. When the second tooth fell out he made me stand on our deck and instruct her not to come into his room. We repeated the process with the second child and he loved it!! The money became unimportant.

Have fun!

How about an electric toothbrush if he doesn't already have one. Or a light up one.

My brother has left ungodly amounts of money and I totally disagree with that.

I think for a first grader up to a dollar is fine. Unless you are going to get the toothbrush which will encourage taking care of his teeth.

I never found it a problem to find boy things a 1 crisp $1 bill will do it!

My child always puts hers up under her pillow in a bag or something and at night i get it out when she is asleep for her first tooth i left 5$ the others i only left a dollar or two.

Maybe a quarter and a matchbox car?

Try a toothfairy pillow. It is a small pillow about the size of you hand that is the shape of a tooth. There is a little pocket in it to put the tooth in. :) Good Luck.

We usually do a small gift instead of money, but we have done money too. I have read about people giving foreign coins or stamps or something to collect like that.

We have done:
a toothfairy doll (I made her from felt)
$1 bills, $1 coins
electric or flashing toothbrushes
tooth brushing timer
mouthwash
stickers
bubble bath
change purse
talking Shrek ink pen

(just about anything but candy/food)

-Amanda

Our tooth fairy left 5 presidential golden dollar coins for the first tooth and 3 for each tooth after. Our pediatric dentist gives out adorable tooth fairy tresure boxes and small mice both which open allowing the tooth to be placed inside.

We've done the gold dollars as well. I also do glitter under the pillow (I have a girl and a boy). I use a very fine glitter that I have for my stamping - it is very light almost like makeup. I make sure to leave a trail and put some on one of the windowsills. It is a hoot watching them run around and "investigate" where the fairy came from! They always end up with a little on their jammies and face, which they think is cool and I think is so cute.

Tooth fairy leaves $1.00 for each tooth - either paper currency or gold coin - even the first tooth. The exception is if a tooth has been lost because of some kind of trauma attached to it (i.e. dentist had to pull a tooth and did it without any numbing agent, once, and another time a rough incident happened which resulted in a lost tooth)... for those two events, the tooth fairy brought $5.00/each event. I wouldn't start out with a higher amount unless it was a traumatic event because the next time they lose a tooth, they will remember they got more and it's harder for them to understand. When they received the $5.00 amount, the "trauma and pain" they briefly endured, suddenly seemed forgotten.

Sometimes dentists know where to get those cute tooth-shaped hinged boxes. Or you can get a little velvet ring box from the jeweler and just remove the inside. (You may even have one lying around your home.) I've even seen small tooth-pillows that have a zipper in them that tucks under the pillow.

Good luck.

We started with $5 for the first tooth. The next tooth was pulled by the dentist, so she got $5 for "being brave."

The third tooth she got $1 (which was the plan, $5 for the first, $1 for the ones after) and she was very upset it wasn't $5. She thought she wasn't "brave" or whatever. Her 4th tooth we didn't HAVE an extra $5 (husband was out of work) so it was $1 again, and then another fit.

Lesson learned: whatever you pick, stick with it. The two $5 in the beginning raised expectations (at least with my stepdaughter) and she was disappointed when it wasn't always $5. I can see her side of it (even though I was mad at her for acting that way!)

We moved to gold dollar coins and she loved it! Even though it was only $1, the fact that it was a coin made it special.

Wow some rich toothfairies out there. We did $1 for the first tooth and a quarter or fifty cents for each one after. But here is something you may or may not want to do. We always had the kids wrap the tooth in toilet paper and put it into an envelope under the pillows. This makes it much easier to find under a sleeping childs head lol. hope the tooth comes out without any stress or trauma.
S.