Tooth Fairy - Reno,NV

Hi, J.,

The only thing I would do is put baby powder to look like fairy dust coming from the window to her bed with a $2 bill. Funny the kids were not so concerned about the money, so they would leave them hanging around and I would pick them up, hide them and use the money for the next tooth they lost. Oh, there's also a cute book out there that my kids loved, it's called NO TOOTH, NO QUARTER. Fun and easy to read.

get a tooth fairy box for her to put the tooth in.
Hallmark stores have them.
Or any cute little box, or a cute draw string pouch.

Then, sprinkle a little "glitter" while she is asleep, just a tad little, near her pillow area. ('evidence' of the tooth fairy when she wakes up).

Then, take a picture or her fallen out tooth for sentimental reason.
then take a picture of her without her tooth, smiling!

Good luck!
Susan

The Tooth Fairy "assigned" to our family is Marvin, The Assistant Molinator, Tooth Fairy In Training. Along with a very minimal $ amount, "He" (I) leaves a typed note telling the child how wonderful the tooth looked and that he gets more credits for teeth in good condition, etc. and to remember to brush and floss daily. If a tooth is lost "he" always seems to know and leaves a note of congratulations and a coin. "He" always has some important task yet to do to become a full-fledged Tooth Fairy. Basically, "he'll" have to make it through all four of my children before he graduates! Oh, and I keep track of his letters by keeping them in a computer file with just his initials (MTAMTFIT). None of my computer literate children would think to look at a file like that!

Whatever you choose to do, remember that you'll probably be doing this for some time. Enjoy it! This is one of those "Fun Mommy" times.

My daughter and I made a little pouch together for the tooth fairy to use. We picked out some fabric remnants and ribbon and pretty trim and sewed it by hand together. She hangs it on her door knob to make it easier for the tooth fairy to find it! It works great!

Sprinkle some fine glitter around the window sill and on her nightstand then take a q-tip and make "fairy footprints". Instead of money leave behind a "fairy gift" like a charm bracelet with a little charm, every time she looses a tooth the fairy can leave a charm for her bracelet. A little porcelain figurine might be fun too. Have fun!

Hi J.,i have a 11 year old daughter and she always
remember the tooth fairy event i made with her a little pocket on the top of her pillow and put the tooth there and the next morning she found a letter from the tooth fairy under her pillow and some money ,every time she lose a tooth was a big deal for her.

We have our daughter write a note to the tooth fairy telling her how she lost her tooth, then we can save the letters for a MUCH later date! She also likes to draw a picture to go with the story. Then we place it in an envelope and put it under her pillow. CONGRATS on the loss of the first tooth. My daughter has since lost several more..and I have two boys who have not lost a single one =}

Hi J.,

Here's what I did for my kids:

I found some darling little boxes that had a sculpture of a fairy on top (I got one with a boy fairy for my son and a girl fairy for my daughter). When the first tooth came out, the tooth fairy (me) left the box with a Sacagawea dollar coin inside, and a letter underneath of it. Since I have terrible handwriting, I wrote the letter in a spidery font on the computer, printed it out onto colored paper, and cut out the message into the shape of a fairy (kind of a person shape surrounded by huge butterfly wings). This first letter welcomed the child into the new world of growing up, and instructed them to leave each newly lost tooth in the fairy box (this made it a LOT easier for me to sneak in and grab the tooth, rather than having to snake it out from under the pillow without waking up an already excited child!).

The fairy then left letters and a single dollar coin for each tooth. Sometimes I wrote the letter in verse, other times in prose. The letter was always personalized and centered around something significant going on in each child's life at the time. The really fun part came in when every once in a while, the fairy would mess up and forget to claim a tooth (or, in the case of my skeptical dd, I was not informed that a tooth had been lost so that she could test if the fairy really existed LOL!). On those occasions, I spun a wild tale about a fairy's union, too many pickups to do in one night, a labor strike, whatever, and then left extra money for compensation and "interest."

My kids loved this system. It really sparked their imaginations, and eventually they started writing letters back to the tooth fairy! The only problem we ran into was when they started asking why other kids didn't get letters, too. The funniest thing that ever happened was when we could no longer get Sacagawea coins and switched to Susan B. Anthony coins. My daughter looked at the face on the coin and asked if it was a picture of the tooth fairy. When I said that I guessed it was, her response was, "Boy, she sure is ugly, isn't she mom?!"

I've saved every one of the letters over the years. One of these days, I'm going to try to write a book around them. Have fun! This is a very special time in your daughter's life.

R.

We do the "fairy dust" (shimmery powder) too. My little girl is not too thrilled with dollars. She'd much rather have a couple of quarters. Also, we videotaped her waking up in the morning and looking under her pillow. It's such a sweet memory. Have fun!

We give $2.00 bills. But silver dollars would be cool too. You can get them at the bank.

The Tooth fairy wrote a letter to my daughter. But be prepared. My daughter started writing ones too. At first they were letters to ask if she could keep her tooth and things like that but then she started asking questions. One letter asked how big she was, what she did with the teeth when she took them, how does she know when a tooth has been lost... it took the Tooth Fairy a LONG time that night to come up with answers!!!

Hi J. -

Congratulations to your daughter! That's so exciting. My daughter is 10 and still loves anticipating the tooth fairy, even though she has long since figured things out.

My sister started this, so I can't take credit, but my daughter & my nieces love it. We get tiny porcelain animal figurines & the tooth fairy leaves those in exchange for the tooth. Hagen-Renaker are our favorites. My sister was kind of anti-money, but I had started off leaving money, so I transitioned with one dollar instead of more dollars and a figurine.

If you're at all interested, you can check out the line and find out where they're sold here: http://www.hagenrenaker.com/Buying/dealer_locater.html I get a lot of ours on eBay, stocking up for several teeth ahead.

It goes without saying that for under the pillow, you stick with the simpler shapes. Things like horses with long slender legs you can always give for b-days or holidays if your daughter responds well to it and wants a collection, like our girls did. They are very inexpensive.

Have fun, whatever you do! All the best,
Colleen

Our family's tooth fairy is different, thanks to a tradition started by my mom (she explained that this was different, and I did the same for my son). Our family's tooth fairy turned the tooth into a coin, but could only do it if the tooth was left in a glass of salt water in the kitchen. (Means not having to dive under the pillow in the dark ::smile::)

For me it was a quarter. For my son it was a dollar (one of the gold-colored ones). He was thrilled.

The big thing is that he lost the tooth when it finally came out, and was really sad that he'd missed out. Our family's tooth fairy is really cool, though: she can find the tooth, bring it to the salt-water glass we've left out, THEN turn it into a coin. She's very smart, you know. ::wink::

We have a tooth fairy pillow with a little pocket in the front for my daughters teeth. When she lost her 1st tooth I got sparkly paper from the craft store and the tooth fairy left her a note introducing herself. (ours is named Cecelia, which was my grandma's name)She told her how proud she was of how clean the tooth was and reminding her to keep brushing because only clean teeth got rewarded. The tooth fairy also left her a new toothbrush to get the job done. She gets $1 for each of her teeth now. Have fun!

My daughter's first tooth happened about the same time we were arranging her enchanted fairy tea party for her birthday and I saw that the company we were using for the party had adorable tooth fairy pillows: http://www.enchantedfairyteaparties.com/merchandise.html. We hang the pillow on my daughter's bed, but it occurs to me that you might be able to hang it on the door knob, too, if you want easy in and out while your child is sleeping.

We used to write little notes from the tooth fairy, with very fancy curvy writing and my girls were so fascinated by that. They loved the notes, along with either money or some little trinket.