Dental Health Movement Book & Cards | Brain Breaks Gross Motor | SPED Autism Alt

Make Dental Health Month move! This Dental Health Movement Book (and Cards!) gets students brushing, flossing, and grinning their way through gross motor practice — building motor planning, direction words, following directions, and imitation skills. Use it for movement breaks, brain breaks, circle time, or those wiggly in-between moments. The teacher reads and models while students imitate — or students pick a movement card and act it out!

📦 What's Included

• A dental health movement book with action prompts
• A set of dental health movement cards
• Print, laminate, and bind/cut for repeated use

📚 How to Use

• The teacher reads the book and models the movements while students imitate
• Students can choose a movement card and practice each movement
• Use during circle time, as a warm-up, or as a small group language activity
• Use as a movement break or brain break before/after transitions or to fill a few minutes
• Great for whole group, small group, 1:1, or therapy sessions

📖 Excerpt from the Book

"Brush teeth high. Brush teeth low.

Brush, brush, fast. Brush, brush, slow.

Brush on the bottom. Brush on the top.

Brush in circles...time to stop!

Floss teeth high...."

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Gross motor development and movement
• Motor planning
• Motor imitation
• Direction words (high, low, fast, slow, top, bottom)
• Following directions
• Self-regulation (movement and brain breaks)
• Dental health and self-care vocabulary
• Listening and attending

💛 Perfect For

• Special education and autism support classrooms
• Occupational therapy, physical therapy, and adaptive PE
• ABA programs (imitation skills)
• Speech-language therapy (direction words, following directions, vocabulary)
• Preschool, PreK, and early elementary
• Movement breaks, brain breaks, and circle time
• Dental Health Month and health units, early childhood, ECSE, and homeschool

🌟 Why Teachers Love This Resource

• A book PLUS movement cards — flexible, two ways to use it
• Builds gross motor, motor planning, and imitation skills
• Bonus direction words practice (high/low, fast/slow, top/bottom)
• A ready-to-go movement break and circle-time activity for Dental Health Month
• Keeps students engaged and gets the wiggles out
• Reusable year after year once laminated

🦷 Want music AND movement? Pair it with the Brush, Brush, Brush! Adapted Song Book, or get the best-value Adapted Song Books Bundle.

😁 More hands-on dental health activities:

• Hands-On Dental Health Activities