February Dental Health Month: Healthy Smiles and Happy Hearts!

February is such a special month in the classroom. It’s full of cozy winter learning, Valentine kindness themes… and it’s also National Children’s Dental Health Month—the perfect time to teach students how to care for their teeth in fun, memorable ways.

Dental health is one of those topics kids love because it feels real and practical: brushing, flossing, losing teeth, the tooth fairy, visiting the dentist… they’re instantly curious and excited.

To help make Dental Health Month simple (and fun) for teachers, I’m featuring several of my favorite February resources:

 Dentist Fact Booklet, Dental Health Booklet, Healthy Smiles (teeth and hands-on activities), Designing a Dental Office (Community Helper Design Challenge), How to Draw Dental Tools

Each one fits perfectly into February lesson plans and works well for centers, whole group, small group, or independent learning.

Dental Health Month is more than just brushing teeth—it’s about helping children build healthy habits they’ll use for life. It also fits beautifully into:

Science: body systems and hygiene

Health lessons: routines and healthy choices

Community helpers: learning about dentists

SEL: confidence, self-care, responsibility

And let’s be honest… kids LOVE learning about teeth. 

Healthy Smiles 

If you’re looking for the one resource that gives you everything you need for a dental health unit, Healthy Smiles was made for you!

This unit is packed with engaging activities to teach all about teeth and dental care—while keeping students active, hands-on, and excited.

Included activities (from the resource):

Craftivities: pocket tooth, tooth fairy, toothbrush

Toothbrush flip book

Sorting sentences

Addition/subtraction/patterning

Story elements for What If You Had Animal Teeth?

What If You Had Animal Teeth? craftivity

Writing activity – 3 levels

Pocket chart flash cards

It’s a perfect supplement for your dental health lessons and gives you lots of options depending on your learners.

Designing a Community Helper’s Office — Dentist 

One of the BEST ways to teach community helpers is by letting students think like community helpers—and this design challenge does exactly that.

In this project, students design a dentist office (or doctor office) and explore what tools and equipment are needed for each profession. This is such a meaningful learning experience because students are using problem-solving skills while connecting literacy, science, and art.

    Included features (from the resource):

Students design dentist/doctor offices using design challenges

Sort items by what belongs in each office

Two ability levels (with or without graphics)

Options for drawing/designing OR coloring/cutting/pasting

Offices in black & white and color

Writing form, fact sheets, and task cards

This is a fantastic February project because students are practicing real engineering thinking—planning, building, adjusting, and explaining.

To keep your Dental Health Month unit consistent and easy to teach, these resources follow the same “teacher-friendly” format as your other best-selling fact booklets and directed drawing sets:

 Dentist Fact Booklet

Perfect for learning about what dentists do, their tools, and how they help people. A great tie-in to community helper units!

Dental Health Booklet

Supports essential dental health concepts—helping students understand how and why we care for our teeth.

How to Draw Dental Tools

Kids LOVE directed drawing, and this is such a fun way to reinforce vocabulary while boosting confidence. Directed drawing also strengthens:

fine motor skills

listening

sequencing

following directions

writing extensions

5 K–2 Read Aloud Books for Dental Health Month 

Here are 5 engaging read alouds that work perfectly with your resources:

The Tooth Book by Dr. Seuss (Theo. LeSieg)-A fun and silly classic that celebrates teeth and why they matter. 

Brush, Brush, Brush! by Alicia Padron - A simple, rhyming book that encourages healthy brushing habits. 

Bear’s Loose Tooth — Karma WilsonA cute story kids enjoy—perfect for connections to tooth care and dental visits. 

What If You Had Animal Teeth? by Sandra Markle - A favorite for kids and a PERFECT tie-in since your Healthy Smiles includes story elements and a craft based on this title.

The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist by Stan & Jan Berenstain - A classic that helps reduce fear and shows what happens at the dentist.

5 Easy Classroom Activities for Dental Health Month 

These are fun, simple, and highly effective—perfect for February:

1) “Healthy Smiles” Brushing Routine Chart

Students create a daily brushing/flossing goal chart for the week.

2) Tooth Fairy Writing Prompt (Kindness tie-in!)

Prompt idea:“I f I were the Tooth Fairy, I would…” Encourage kindness: leaving notes, encouraging healthy habits, helping nervous kids.

3) Sink or Float Toothpaste Experiment

Test small objects (plastic tooth, penny, eraser, floss container). Students record predictions and results.

4) Dentist Office Dramatic Play / Role-Play

Set up a simple dentist office in the classroom with:

gloves

mask

mirror

“appointment” slips

5) Dental Tools Label and Draw

Use your How to Draw Dental Tools to introduce vocabulary, then have students label tools and write:

“A dentist uses a ____ to ____.”

Dental Health Month gives us a wonderful chance to teach life skills that matter—while still keeping February fun and engaging.

Whether you want: hands-on crafts and literacy (Healthy Smiles), engineering + community helper learning (Designing a Dentist Office), nonfiction fact reading (Fact Booklets), or creative directed drawing (How to Draw Dental Tools), these resources help make Dental Health Month feel structured, simple, and exciting for K–2 learners!

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