Art by Laurel
What does the Tooth Fairy do with all those teeth?
Laurel, age 6: (speaking in a lisp, as she just lost a front tooth this morning) I think that the Tooth Fairy umm, when we lose our tooth, she takes our tooth and gives us a tip for the tooth. And she takes the tooth home and puts it on her pile of teeth so she can make a teeth castle. So she will have a castle, and she gives us tips, of course. Today, I lost a tooth. I don’t know where it is. I was going to write a note to her saying that I lost my tooth, and I am very happy that I lost my tooth. The End.
Oh, wait. What I wanted to say was that the Tooth Fairy collects all those teeth, and she gets money for them, and with the money she BUYS a castle. Yeah. That’s what I meant to say.
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Kelsey, age 8: I think that the Tooth Fairy uses human teeth for making new human teeth, since in the morning sometimes the mouths of human babies have more teeth because the Tooth Fairy saves all the teeth in a humongous jar and at just the right time she comes at night and gives teeth to babies!
P.S. I think there are a bunch of Tooth Fairies. A group of fairies, and they all work together to get all the teeth up to the giant jar, because for one tooth fairy, it’s really hard to lift even one tooth, because tooth fairies are tiny, like pixies.
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PLEASE go check out the comments on this post to read the imaginative tales spun by my friends–Carolyn, Tom, and Sarah–about the Tooth Fairy. I can’t wait to read these stories to my kids!
Thanks for reading!