Hi everyone! My little one, who's 6 is about to loose her first baby tooth. I would like to save it but am not sure how to. I would love some creative ideas.
I purchased a tooth bank which a large porcelain tooth with a slot for the money and around are individual spots for each tooth and you can write the date on the underside of the spots. My daughter loves it and enjoys looking at her baby teeth.
I too was looking for creative ideas to save my daughter's baby teeth. But for now, I just put them in plastic baggies with the date written on for future reference (like when I finally get around to updating the baby book!). But be sure to put them somewhere safe, so your little one doesn't find out you are the Tooth Fairy!!!
I plan to keep them in little organza draw string bags, when my boys lose their baby teeth. I have memory boxes for each of my boys, with the outfits they wore for their trip home from the hospital, baptism, teeth, special cards, etc. Of course, I'll probably hide the teeth somewhere safe until they are too old to believe in the Tooth Fairy anymore.
Also, I got a Tooth Fairy Pillow from Once Upon A Family. It came with Fairy Dust (sparkly sprinkle stuff found at any craft store) - I am looking forward to this special tradition for my guys.
Incidentally, my little one chipped one of his front teeth two weeks ago. I called our dentist and he said as long as it is not bothering him, just leave it alone. He also said, don't worry Mom, it will fall out in 3 1/2 - 4 years anyway!!!
Have fun with this T.! It is a special time!
After the tooth fairy comes, we've always just put them in a small zip lock bag with their name and date it was lost and then put it in our fire proof safety deposit box.
K. B
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I have two points to bring out.
One is that nowadays, some people have their children's 4 top MILK TEETH banked with a special Science Lab, one is BioEden Baby Tooth Stem Cell Bank. Believe it or not, they are now finding that a child's baby teeth are the most important resources in getting LIFE SAVING STEM CELLS, similar to the Umbillical CORD BLOOD. For a fee, the company extracts the stem cells from the tooth for future use and preserves it indefinately. Should the child ever become sick in the future, it can literally be a life saver to have the stem cells... That being said... if you don't want to save the tooth for SCIENCE or medical purposes...
There is the TOOTHFAIRY's BABY BANK TOOTH... it is a TOOTH SHAPED BANK and surrounding it, are little holes to put all of the child's teeth IN ORDER, displayed for each tooth. Here is the link for it that I found online. http://www.tfairy.com/toothbank.html
As for my own personal experience with my kids, now grown...I was given a little red plastic case the size of a dime or penny, from my child's dentist. I put my child's tooth in that. When their teeth fell out, we put the tooth in the case, and I placed that in a little toothfairy pillow with a built-in pocket. It was the size of a 3 x 5 index card. I told my kids that the toothfairy would leave them money for the tooth. My daughter used to write a note with questions to the tooth fairy...(For some reason, she thought it was "Princess Di" back then in 1981-82.) I would write her a note back, disguising my handwriting, and answer all her questions. With slight of hand, like a Magician, I would pretend that I was slipping HER folded note into the Pillow Pocket, WITH the red tooth case, when I was actually palming her note and slipping in MY answers to the questions, with a folded bill or coins inside! I would also inspect the plastic box just before putting it into the pillow pocket, telling her I was making sure the tooth was secure, and would remove just the tooth without her knowing. I would place the tiny pillow under her bed pillow, informing her not to touch it or the tooth fairy would not come. By next morning, she would find the tooth missing, the note written by the tooth fairy, with money inside, and get all excited. This way I did not have to worry about being CAUGHT removing the tooth and replacing with payment, as she was a light sleeper. I STILL have the red case that the dentist gave me, with her tooth in it. I kept both of my kids first teeth, to this day. She is 32 and my son is 23.
Hi T.!
I'm not sure where Effort, PA is, but I work in a store in Havertown, PA called "Special Occasions", and we carry First Tooth and First curl sets which are really cute. Our phone nimber is ###-###-####. Give us a call and I can describe what we have and mail it to you if you need us too!
I'm sorry. I don't have any ideas, but your question reminded me of what my mother and some of my aunts did back in the day. I was born in 1961 (don't laugh!), and apparently, there were moms back then who had their children's baby teeth made into jewelry. Well, my mom has a necklace with mine and my brother's baby teeth all over it, and a more hideous thing I've never seen! Of course, we can't let her live it down, and I'm very happy that fad passed into the ages. Ewww. I tell her that necklace is going to get cremated one day, because we don't want it.
I saved my boys' first few baby teeth in a cute little holder. When they grew up, I gave them to the boys along with their baby books and photos. They promptly told me that the teeth were gross and threw them out. But one of the boys had permanent teeth pulled before he had braces. Those were pretty vicious looking with the roots attached. He kept those. Go figure!
T.,
My son lost his first baby tooth when he had to have it pulled about a month ago. Not exactly the way I envisioned him loosing his first baby tooth, let me tell you!
Anyway, my son is the King of The Pack Rats so he insisted that we write a note to the tooth fairy asking her if he could keep the tooth for himself. Go figure. So for now, he is the keeper of his own first baby tooth. I guess what I'm saying is to expect the unexpected at anytime!
I have heard of (even though this seems gross to me) that there are companies that make jewelry out of baby teeth. But the thought of that sends shivers down my spine! LOL But to each his own, I suppose!
