Welcome to our Fun Stuff corner! We love helping kids feel excited about their smiles, at the dentist and at home. Here you’ll find dino-mite coloring sheets, a brushing chart, sweet notes from the Tooth Fairy and the Binky Fairy, and a few roar-some tooth facts. Print, color, and enjoy!
Kids have 20 baby teeth. Grown-ups usually end up with 32 permanent teeth. That’s a lot of smiles to brush!
Baby teeth get started early! When a baby is born, the tops of all 20 baby teeth are already almost fully formed, hiding inside the jaw.
Tooth enamel is the hardest thing in your whole body, even harder than bone.
Enamel is about 96 percent mineral, more than any other part of your body. Super strong, but it can’t grow back, so brushing keeps it safe!
Tyrannosaurus rex had about 60 teeth, and the biggest were around 30 cm (12 inches) long, counting the root. Roar!
T. rex teeth were thick, banana-shaped, and saw-edged, strong enough to crunch right through bone.
Duck-billed dinosaurs called hadrosaurs had up to 300 teeth in each side of the jaw, stacked in rows called “dental batteries,” perfect for grinding tough plants.
Dinosaurs never ran out of teeth! When one wore down or fell out, a new one grew in to replace it, all through their lives.
Nigersaurus, a long-necked plant eater with more than 500 teeth, may have grown a new tooth in each spot about every 14 days.
We only get one set of grown-up teeth, so dino-mite brushers brush for 2 minutes, twice a day.
Tap a button to open a printable PDF, then print it on regular letter-size paper.
Looking for more? The American Dental Association’s MouthHealthy site has extra activities for little ones.
When it was time for our own little one to give up the binky, An Untold Story of the Binky Fairy by Diane Alber helped make it a sweet, happy goodbye. Pair it with our printable Binky Fairy note for a keepsake your child will love.
