Tooth Fairy Ideas - Lockport,IL

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.
sherry

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.

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.

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 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)

-A.