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The Magic Tooth Saver

The shock of wobbly teeth

It can be a trying time for five or six year olds when they suddenly find that they have wobbling teeth. It happens just when they are experiencing the change from playing in nursery to being serious about learning, or perhaps even leaving their nursery and joining the big school.

Softening the blow

How can that blow be softened just a little? With stories of course, and there isn’t a  better story at this time than the Tooth Fairy whose promise is a coin or a gift.

Searching for the elusive tooth

Finding a milk tooth from underneath a pillow can be very difficult, especially if your child is lying right on it, and so a tooth saver is a pretty way of making life easier for yourself.

Crochet, beads and needle felting

Tooth Saver showing all pieces

I crocheted this one, and then stiffened it with beads and added a needle felted fairy as a handle. You do however, have to be ready with a story, especially if this is the first lost tooth.

Searching for stories

After searching the information on the origins of the Tooth Fairy myth, and finding that no-one is really sure how it came about, and knowing that I would surely need to explain to a very inquisitive little lady why she would benefit from putting  her tooth into the little nest for collection, I wrote this story:

The Best Tooth Fairy in the World

The Best Tooth Fairy in the World

Serafina is the world’s best tooth fairy, which means that she is allowed to collect the teeth from her favourite children. You Freya are honoured to be chosen by Serafina because you are a kind little girl who loves animals and flowers, especially toadstools, which as you know are where fairies make their homes.

Keeping the world safe

By giving Seraphina your tooth you are helping her to keep all the beautiful flowers safe from harm, and so make the world a wonderful place for all the children who are not quite as old as you. Children like younger sisters and brothers, who don’t yet understand how important it is that Seraphina is allowed to do her job properly, but they will when it’s their turn.

You see, your lost tooth holds magic.

It is the magic that holds everything together, it’s like a special kind of glue, that only little children can make. It is that special smile that lights up a dull world, it is your infectious laugh that makes all the old ones laugh too, it is your big hugs that bring such pleasure to everyone who cares for you, and it is your dreams that hold your future in your hands, and Seraphina collects it all from your tooth.

Making Seraphina happy

We all owe her our gratitude, and if we can hold her in our thoughts once in a while she will be happy too, because even fairies get old, and Seraphina is at least two hundred and ten. Now I know that this is hard to believe, but it is true, and she gets a little tired from flying such great distances every night.

A gift for every girl and boy

Because children never stop losing their teeth, and we are all so pleased with them for doing it that Seraphina leaves a little gift for each boy or girl that believes in her and leaves a tooth. Her gift also holds magic, and you can use the magic straight away.

Keeping your magic

You can take your coin and choose something from a shop that would please you, or put your present in your treasure box to keep and remember your first lost tooth, and know that you were especially chosen by the best tooth fairy, and send her your love.

Remembering why

As you lose more teeth you can put them in your pink tooth nest and wait for their collection, happy to know that all the effort of pulling your tooth that last little bit, which sometimes stings, will be all worthwhile.

The Pink Tooth Nest