OT - Need Tooth Fairy ideas

[wrighter]

So just yesterday I realized my DS5 has two loose teeth - and by the end of the day today it became clear that at least one of them will be coming out soon! My baby!!!

I am not at all prepared for the Tooth Fairy's arrival. I know I could just leave the traditional money under the pillow, and that is cool, but I'd like to "kick it up a notch," if you know what I mean. I want to make it really magical, and nobody knows magical like my fellow DISers.

Is anyone willing to share their awesome Tooth Fairy ideas? I have a feeling I'm going to need it asap.

Thanks!

 

[melancholywings]

Ours leaves 'magical' money - coins from other countries. She thought it was neat to get a coin from another country and now she's turned into a bit of a collector.

 

[roliepolieoliefan]

For DS's first tooth the tooth fairy left him one of the wooden "Thomas " train cars along with money.

For DD who just lost her 1st tooth 2 weeks ago, the tooth fairy left her a fairy princess outfit for her baby doll and money.

The 1st tooth is always special and the tooth fairy leaves something extra.

 

[Ephany]

We leave gold dollars, DD then redeems them for 'normal' dollars since they're easier to spend, although she's saved everything from the tooth fairy so far. I found a zippered pouch at the dollar store and that's what she places the tooth in so it doesn't risk getting lost.

 

[ColoradoLime]

Check out these tooth fairy links for unique ideas:

http://www.toothfairysecrets.com/wiki/TFS/HomePage (this page has coins from other countries as mentioned above)

http://www.toothfairyland.com/

http://toothfairycoin.com/

http://www.ultimatetoothfairy.com/

 

[WantToGoNow]

My ds7 has lost 8 teeth now. The first tooth he got $10 and $5 for each tooth after. We bought a little ceramic box that looks like a tooth. It is placed on the bookshelf in the living room and he leaves the teeth in there and it is replaced with the $$. He lost one at Great Wolf Lodge and he received his $5 in tokens for the game room - he loved that.

DD5 should start getting some loose ones soon and I'll probably do the same thing with her since she's so excited when Bubby gets $ left in the box.

 

[Taylor'sMom]

I sprinkle a little "fairy dust" (glitter) near/under her pillow and a bit on the windowsill. DD loves it and tells everyone!
We also have a small light (like the coin-battery ones that can light a jack-o-lantern) that we turn on and leave on the windowsill, to "alert" the fairy there's a lost tooth in that room.

 

[KibbyCat]

My daughter just lost her first tooth a couple of months ago, and her second is due to fall out any day now. Here's what we did:

I handed down my own tooth fairy pillow that my mom had handmade for me when I had my first loose tooth. It has a tiny pouch for the tooth, about 1-square-inch in diameter, so it makes for a challenge. Of course, 25 years ago, a couple of quarters was prime, so the pocket didn't need to be any bigger. However, after researching the tooth fairy's going rate, I knew I needed to be clever.

So I bought her a new DS game for her Nintendo DS, and took it out of the package. Then I wrapped a crisp one-dollar-bill into a neat square around the game, and it fit perfectly into the pillow. Boy was she surprised to open it up and see that the next morning!

I'm probably just going to give her a dollar for the 2nd tooth. Or maybe $5, if I happen to have one on hand. After all, she just got a ton of DS games for Christmas, and I think the first tooth is more special and deserves a bigger surprise anyway. Then, I think each subsequent tooth will earn a bit less, until maybe it's only a shiny new quarter (or Chuck-E-Cheese token), which is the cheapest I'd go.

Good luck!

 

[Aliceacc]

She always leaves a note at our house.

Oh, and I guess our tooth fairy is on austerity. The going rate in our house is $1.

 

[csnkrushin]

At our house the tooth fairy leaves a special gold coin (for the first tooth only) that the kids save. Besides a dollar under the pillow for the tooth, the tooth fairy always leaves a toothbrush, toothpaste or flossers for both the child who lost a tooth and their sibling.

 

[The Disney Bunch]

We have tooth fairy pillows that hang on the edge of the bed - the tooth fairy either leaves Disney Dollars or Webkinz Trading cards or foreign coins or $2 bills - something unique! My youngest dd got a lil Kinz when she had her bottom two baby teeth pulled - extra special since there was trauma involved & it was her first & second teeth!

Our tooth fairies also leave notes & reveal their names with the second tooth lost. Each child has her own fairy & the notes reflect things unique to each girl. They have decided that Tinkerbell is a cousin & that the tooth fairies have a second job during the day- they change the traffic lights!

 

[Cloud9]

The tooth fairy in our house gives one different gold $1 coin and a handful of change for each tooth. Even for the one that was never recovered (if you get my meaning). To date my daughter has eight different $1 coins that she does not spends.

 

[pixiewings71]

We do gold coins, $2 bills, Susan B Anthony dollars. All of which we trade with the kids after they are left for them. We normally trade them for Disney dollars. A few times they have received more than that but the going rate in our house is $3-5 per tooth. That includes the "special" money listed above.

 

[luvmy3jewels]

For the first tooth our tooth fairy leaves 2 gold dollars and a note written with glitter glue that says "thanks for the tooth" or something similar. After that, we usually leave 1 coin per tooth, except when ds pulled his first tooth out and then his second in the same day. The tooth fairy was pretty impressed with getting two in one shot, so she left $4 that night.

On a side note, I don't think the kids have ever paid that much attention to what the tooth fairy brings their friends, but their friends parents have sometimes remarked about how our tooth fairy brings our kids gold dollars and theirs just brings regular money.

 

[Accentuate+]

Similar to the sprinkling glitter idea mentioned above...

A friend of mine leaves a very sparse trail of glitter from the window to the bed. A little glitter gel/powder also gets smudged on a cheek - it's where the tooth fairy kissed the sleeping child.

 

[JKSWonder]

It was always a tradition in our family that for the first lost tooth (first tooth only!) you received your very first watch. My was a Cinderella watch....my daughter received Sleeping Beauty.

She's also received at other times, a gold dollar, a puzzle, a piece of costume jewelry, etc.

I know a friend of mine sprinkles "fairy dust" (glitter) around her daughter's pillow.

 

[PollyannaMom]

First Tooth was a much-wanted Webkinz. After that, $2 - a gold one to save and a paper one to spend. And she does always seem to brush some glitter off her dress.

 

[disney_family_1247]

When my daughter lost her first tooth, she was sad that the Tooth Fairy was going to take it away I cut a deal with her-she could keep her tooth, and I would "buy" it for her. She got $5 for that first one and $1 for the others (although my dad has given her a $10 a couple of times when she loses a tooth). She now has a little box with her baby teeth and money in her princess bank. I know most kids wouldn't care, but my oldest is very interested in science and couldn't bear to part with her teeth.

 

[mombare]

We are not-very-patiently waiting for that first lost tooth. My daughter was 6 in October...just can't understand why her 5 year old cousin has lost 2 teeth already, and she has lost none. Life is so not fair! We have to check the teeth daily, which is getting a little old. She also has not gotten her next set of molars, which bothers her also.
Anyone else have a late bloomer? I am not worried about it - just means those precious teeth will have a little more time to be protected!

 

[nyyankeegirl]

DS7 just lost his 5th tooth on Christmas day. We were out of state at my inlaws. The tooth fairy has always given gold coins. I was so concerned, since we didn't have any with us. Thankfully my father in law had a few laying around, so we were able to give him 2 of them.
But here's the funny part. DS had just received a R2D2 voice activated robot from Santa. Well R2 has a "room guard" mode. He will sound his alarms when someone enters a room. So DS was so set on having R2 outside the bedroom so he could "catch" the tooth fairy. Being the mean mommy that I am, I made him turn it off, for fear of the cat walking by at 2 am & waking the entire house. Thankfully the tooth fairy still came & was never caught by my curious 7 yr. old!