Tooth Fairy Ideas

Updated on July 03, 2009
C.C. asks from Sherwood, OR
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Our son is about to loose his first tooth. We are looking for some creative ideas to handle the whole tooth fairy thing. Where should the tooth go, how much or what should the tooth fairy leave him? Please share what you do when your child looses a tooth.

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K.R.

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last time I saw this go by a lot of people used those gold-colored US dollar coins, which I thought was super cool but $1 feels like too much to me and I'd already established a different pattern before I read that

we give fifty cents--I always use 5 dimes because it feels more fairy-like to me than two quarters, but their dad I think uses quarters at his place

sometimes the tooth fairy doesn't make it on the first night (tired parents!), so they've also received a few handwriting-altered apology notes with their 50c the next day. I sometimes wrap the 5 dimes in a stack with a bit of shimmery ribbon.

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T.F.

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We usually give $2 for the first tooth and a $1 each. If you google tooth fairy you can get all kinds of fun sites and the common thing I found was that the going rate was $1. But since the first and last tooth are so special, I doubled those milestones.

I kept my oldest sons first tooth in a box in my dresser with the date lost.

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M.F.

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the tooth is put in a glass and grows money and the tooth disappears gets put in a baggiee with a note as to when the tooth was lost. sometimes we add a book or toy
Have fun
Paula

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A.H.

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wow the first tooth. that is so exciting. our daughter lost her first tooth at the age of 4 so she had a little bit of an idea what money was. what we did for her was put her tooth in the back of a little pillow that we hung on her door ( actually I found the pillow at the $ store. it is embroidered with Welcome tooth fairy on the front and has tooth shaped pocket on the back. it is a lot better then under the pilllow.) anyway we put the tooth in that and then she went to bed in the morning the tooth fairy had left her one gold coin. ( a gold dollar) to put in her special piggy bank to save and one paper dollar to spend. she really liked that. my friend has a special little box her kids put their teeth in and they ring a bell right before bed to call the tooth fairy. they get the same gold dollar and paper dollar. good luck on your tooth fairy tradition.

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M.L.

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There's an article in Parents Magazine about this that had some good ideas. One of them was to sprinkle just a little glitter where the fairy dust would be.

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M.C.

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Hi C.,
It's bittersweet, isn't it? Not babies anymore and growing up fast! We recently experienced our 1st lost tooth and we've lost 3, so far. When the tooth fairy visits our house, she brings 1 shiny gold dollar coin. We assume she comes in through the window since there is always a trail of gold glitter dust from the window to the bed. Last time though, it seems as if she was poking around a bit in my son's room because there was glitter dust everywhere!
We want to celebrate the tooth fairy but don't want to get carried away. We have friends that give $5 and sometimes more but we are happy with just the one coin. I have a roll of new ones on hand. I like how the date is current so that when he gets his coin, it goes straight into his silver box (a memory box). So far, we've labeled the date on each coin. As far as the tooth is concerned, I keep them in a little earring box in my nightstand. Good luck!

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J.K.

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For some reason growing up, we always put our tooth into a water glass on the kitchen counter (I think my parents thought it was gross to stick the thing under a pillow). Anyways, when my daughter lost her first tooth, we also put it in a glass of water. I told her that the tooth fairy would come during the night and tap the tooth with her magic wand and turn it into money. This was really exciting for her :-)

It just so happened that a change machine had given me some Sacajawea dollars - those really pretty gold colored dollar coins. I couldn't resist... so she got a whole dollar, and the coins are so pretty and so uncommon that it just added to the magic (fairy gold, LOL).

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M.S.

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We got a little tooth pillow from Dollar Tree. They have pink or blue. It is shaped like a tooth with wings, and have a pocket for the tooth and another for the money.
We gave my daughter $5 for the first tooth and $1 for each after that. If a tooth was particularly difficult coming out, we upped it to $2. The tooth fairy left a congratulations note with sparkles after the first tooth and she placed it in a clear envelope in her baby book. All of the others after that just disappear (garbage).

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S.H.

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My son sleeps with his mouth wide open, so we took a picture of him while he was sleeping, as if the Tooth Fairy took it when she came.

Then we put that picture - along with a "Lost Tooth Certificate" from the Tooth Fairy (found online if you google search "tooth fairy" - under his pillow with a $0.50.

He loved it!

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B.A.

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I'm not sure if anyone else has said this yet, but there is a book called "Little Bear's Loose Tooth" and in the book he is just learning to whistle, then looses his tooth and can't whistle anymore, so the tooth fairy brings him a shiny red whistle. (I can't remember if the book talks about the tooth fairy or not....) I think something like that sounds fun instead of just money. =) Our 1st son is only 3.5, but he loves that book and talks about how he'll get a whistle when he looses a tooth, so if he's still interested in that when the time comes, I think that's what we'll do.

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S.W.

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Well with my kids we always put it in a container under thier pillow. My daughter even made her own tooth fairy pillow one year. They always get a dollar a tooth, that's me! I keep them.
S.

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J.P.

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C.,
We have recently started this process with the tooth fairy and having a lot of fun with it. My son asked what happens to the teeth and we explained that the tooth fairy brings them back to the parents after they are carefully measured and documented, etc. Which then created questions and we had to make up a huge history and now he receives letters with his money and he actually likes the letters more than the money. We gave him a gold dollar for the 1st tooth and a $1 bill for each of the subsequent teeth. I asked the dentist what the going rate was and she said $1 was fairly average.
Have fun with it and don't forget to take a picture of his smile before he looses that tooth and after, too!
-J.

Oh, I also placed each tooth in a bag with the date and the placement order so I know which one was lost first. I only did this because my parents just placed all my teeth in an envelope and I always wondered which one did I loose first. And in typing this, I am kind of wondering what in the world am I going to do with all these teeth. It's slightly gross to think about :)

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K.G.

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We give a dollar. We put the tooth in a ziploc snack bag with the date and which tooth written in a sharpie pen. Then it goes under the pillow. The next morning there is another snack bag with a dollar in it and a note written in sharpie on it from the tooth fairy saying good job or something and the tooth goes to me. My son knows his dad and I see the tooth fairy and that is why we have his teeth. we will do the same thing for my daughter when she starts losing hers as well.
You should keep at least one tooth if anything should ever happen to your child so they can get DNA but the rest can be tossed if you don't want them.

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W.C.

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leave a golden ticket to a family adventure to something he really enjoys doing, or something he enjoys doing with one parent.

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G.A.

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I am an orthodontist in gresham so when my first child lost her first tooth I felt a lot of preasure to do something special. Izabela put the tooth under her pillow one night and when she was asleep, I sprinkled fairy dust (glitter) under her pillow where she left the tooth along with a note from the tooth fairy stating what a big event this was and that tooth fairy was really happy that she was taking good care of her teeth by brushing and flossing. I also left a dollar bill along with the note and fairy dust. Izabela was thrilled in the morning.

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R.R.

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When my son lost his first tooth, my husband wasn't perpared and only had a 5 and a 20 on him, I did not have any change either, so my son got the $5, when he lost the second tooth I did not know until the morning that the tooth fairy had also left a $5 for it too.
When we were little my grandmother told us that when the Tooth Fariy came she took our tooth and made a new star, the next night we always went outside and sure enough we always found the brightest star, which the tooth fairy had made from our baby tooth.
After 50 years I am now shareing that story with my 6 yr old son and grandchildern.

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M.P.

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My daughter has her kids put the tooth in a baggie, so that it doesn't get lost, and put it under their pillow. During the night she replaces the tooth with a dollar bill sprinkled with "fairy dust". It's actually glitter.

My nearly 9 yo granddaughter is still trying to figure out the tooth fairy. With the loss of her last tooth she asked if the tooth fairy gave her Mama the money. She's still thinking that there is a tooth fairy but she doesn't understand why her mother has her baby teeth in an envelope. :)

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