While brushing his teeth,my son raised a question,does animals brush their teeth?Followed by other questions such as animals donot brush their teeth with tooth paste and tooth brushand how can they keep teeth clean, So we decided to learn about Animal teeth.
1 .Diy teeth
We did animal teeth for our pretend play.We did two types of teeth,one was using rice flour and other one using ice.
A.Diy rice flour teeth.
I asked the child to take 1 cup of rice flour and mix it with little flour.I helped him to get desired consistency.Then asked him to fill it in icecube tray and freeze it at high cooling speed .Our diy rice dough teeth is ready.
B.Ice teeth.
I just asked him to fill water in two glasses and freeze it.Our diy ice animal teeth are ready.
2.Stick and match.
Took pink colour paper and did different shapes in plain paper.Asked the child to cut and stick it in paper.We did hippo,crocodile,beaver teeth.
I took 2 copies of print out from Google images ,then asked the child to match according to the pattern of teeth.
3.Animal Dentist -Pretend play
He loved playing pretend play as animal dentist.He was examining all animal teeth.He was using our diy teeth to fix the broken teeth of animal and many more things.
Today, we learnt that animal teeth differs from one animal to other.It depends on food they eat.Meat eaters have sharp teeth,those who eat plant have flat teeth.Those who eat both plant and eat have sharp teeth in front and flat teeth at back .We categorised animal according to their eating habits.
.All his questions were answered one by one during the pretend play that Animals eat raw meat and plants.Chewing on bones or sticks helps to remove food particles between teeth.We also talked about differences between human teeth and animal teeth.
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