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Inside Brush, Spit and Start Again Resource & Activity Pack:

 

THE SCIENCE OF TEETH

1. Dental Flashcards: Children learn about teeth, dental tools, oral health terms, and healthy tooth-care habits.

2. Dental Clinic: Children cut, sort, and paste the people, tools, and objects that belong in a dental clinic.

3. Short Questions and Answers: Children study dental pictures and answer questions about tooth care, dental tools, and common dental problems.

4. Dental Match: Children match pictures of teeth, dental tools, and mouth parts to the correct words.

 

DENTAL DESIGNS — ART

5. Brushing Teeth Colouring Pages: Children colour dental-themed pictures while discussing brushing, dentist visits, and caring for their teeth.

6. Love Your Teeth: Children draw clean, happy teeth and dirty, unhappy teeth to explore healthy and unhealthy tooth care.

7. Dental Maze: Children guide the boys through a maze to find their toothpaste.

8. Colour Recognition: Children match coloured toothbrushes to the correct written colour names.

9. Colour and Size: Children compare tooth sizes and colour each tooth using the correct colour key.

 

LITERACY

10. A–Z Dental Alphabet: Children trace, copy, and recognise uppercase and lowercase letters using tooth-themed alphabet pages.

11. Dental Word Searches: Children find hidden dental words in puzzles offered at different difficulty levels.

12. Interesting Words: Children explore important words from the story through pronunciation, meaning, spelling, and word activities.

13. Reading and Comprehension: Children read dental-themed passages and answer questions to build understanding.

14. Dental Story Prompt: Children write about a dental experience and draw how it made them feel.

 

NUMERACY AND PROBLEM-SOLVING

15. Whose Smile Is the Cleanest?: Children play a card game and try to finish with the cleanest, healthiest smile.

16. Number Practice: Children trace and copy numbers to develop number recognition and formation.

17. Trace and Write Numbers: Children practise forming and independently writing numbers.

18. Number Spelling: Children recognise numbers and write the matching number words from 1 to 20.

19. Maths Worksheet 1: Children complete number patterns by filling in the missing numbers.

20. Maths Worksheet 2: Children count dental-themed pictures and match them to the correct numbers.

21. Dental Addition: Children complete simple tooth-themed addition activities.

22. Colour Counting: Children colour the correct number of teeth for each number shown.

23. Colour and Numbers: Children count teeth of different colours and record the correct totals.

24. Dental Addition 2: Children count groups of teeth and complete the matching addition equations.

25. Advanced Addition: Children use colour totals to solve more challenging tooth-themed addition problems.

26. Germ Buster Game: Children play a board game about germs, healthy choices, and keeping their teeth clean.

 

BUILDING CONFIDENCE WITH DENTAL CARE

27. Good and Bad for Teeth: Children draw and sort habits, foods, and objects that are good or bad for their teeth.

28. Tooth-Friendly and Non-Friendly Foods: Children cut out and sort foods into tooth-friendly and non-friendly groups.

29. Teeth Around the World: Children discover interesting tooth traditions and customs from different cultures.

30. Cultural Traditions Matching Quiz: Children match each dental or tooth tradition to the correct country.

31. Seven-Day Brushing Challenge Pack: Children learn a healthy brushing routine and track their brushing for seven days.

32. Tooth Town Trek: Children play a board game about healthy habits, food choices, and caring for their teeth.

 

ANSWERS

33. Answer Pages: Use the selected answers to check and support children’s learning.

 

HOMEWORK AND PROJECTS

34. Brain Boost Weekly — 10 Homework Sheets: A full-term Years 1–3 homework pack combining literacy, numeracy, oral health, and wellbeing.

35. Dental Project Ideas: Children choose from a range of ideas to create a poster, booklet, report, model, or presentation about teeth and dental care.

Brush, Spit and Start Again - Resource & Activity Pack (Digital)

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