The Tooth Fairy Came to Visit + A Tutorial!

Yesterday was a big day in our house. 

Kate lost her first tooth!

(It's the one on the bottom....she just has a big gap between her 2 front teeth)

The tooth has been hanging by a thread all week {*shudder* totally gives me the heebie jeebies} 

The tooth finally fell out at school which was exciting because she got a fun sticker from her teacher.

 

So proud of her first lost tooth.  

And, props to Kevin for putting a ziplock baggie in her bag just in case she lost it at school.

I was super excited about my new role as Tooth Fairy, so of course I went to Pinterest for Tooth Fairy ideas. 

This was our FIRST child losing her FIRST tooth, so I needed to decide what I was going to do. I hadn't really thought about it yet! It was crunch time. 

I didn't have anything for Kate to put her tooth in, so I called my mother in law (who is an excellent seamstress) We googled & looked on Pinterest. 

We found THIS tutorial.

Look what my mother in law whipped up yesterday afternoon:

 

Pin for the Win!

 Is that not the cutest tooth fairy pillow EVER? And, I love that you can hang it, you don't have to put it under the pillow. If you don't have bed posts, just hang it on their bedroom door. 

It makes it easier to leave money & not wake up your child!

My next decision was How much does the Tooth Fairy leave?

I went to Facebook and Instagram for suggestions.

I got a wide variety of amounts, ranging from $.50 to $20!

We decided to keep it simple. 

For the first tooth, they will get a Silver Dollar and $1 bill.

Every tooth after that, they will just get $1 (not sure if I will do a silver dollar or dollar bill for that)

 You may notice that my dollar bill is sparkly! While searching on Pinterest, I saw the idea to put glitter on the dollars that the Tooth Fairy leaves. SO EASY! 

There are a few ways you can do this. 

You can use glitter hair spray (which I didn't have & which is only carried in stores around Halloween) 

OR you can hair spray the dollar and then sprinkle glitter on it, 

OR you can use glitter glue,

OR you can spray the dollar with glitter spray paint.

 The next idea I saw on Pinterest was THIS idea. 

Making a receipt from the Tooth Fairy!!!! 

The link didn't have instructions, but here is what I did to make Kate's receipt:

 (I like the receipt idea because I am afraid Kate would recognize my handwriting)

First, I downloaded THIS font (It's free)

Then, I just typed up my receipt in a Word Document. 

To add a bar code, I went to THIS website which is a bar code generator. 

For the bar code, I put Kate's initials, then a 1 (first tooth) and then the date. 

After it generated my bar code, I did a screen shot of just the bar code and saved it as a .jpeg

On my Word document, I inserted it as an image to the bottom of my receipt.

I printed it out & then cut the paper to make it smaller. 

SO EASY! It took less than 10 minutes to make.

 Not sure if I will leave a receipt every time, but for sure for each kid's first tooth!

(And, it's a good way to document the dates when they loose their teeth)

So thankful for all these fun ideas I found on Pinterest!

How do you do the "Tooth Fairy" for your family? 

How much $ do you leave?

I would love to hear your ideas!