According to USA Today, the average kid gets $3 per tooth under their pillow from the tooth fairy. Some parents give up to $20. Why, back in my day I was lucky to get a quarter! I also used to trudge three miles to school in my stockinged feet, lugging a burlap sack instead of a backpack. For a tooth fairy pillow, I used a lump of clay with a hole poked in it, just big enough for a tooth.
Your kids will surely appreciate one of these instead:
1. Knit Tooth Pillow by Ouef NYC
2. Wooden Engraved Box by Urban Timber Woodworks
3. Little Red Riding Hood Box by Decole from All About The Cute
4. Pirate Tooth Pillow by Fournier from Sweet William
5. Pirate Tooth Treasure Box by Pegged
6. Wooden Apple Box by Miss Natalie
7. Ninja Fairy Pillow by Just Sew Special
8. House Tooth Fairy Pillow by Apple White
How much is a tooth worth in your house?
(Images: as linked above)
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Ha ha ha, funniest post in ages. :)
The boxes are pretty cute as well!
Adorable! And we agree, very funny :)
You had me at "You can't handle the tooth." :)
I used a ziplock and stuck it under the pillow I put my head on. :)
Twenty dollars? Oh no way. Even three seems excessive, but apparently the tooth fairy works along with inflation I see. :) The boxes and pillows are really cute!!
Is it really bad that I'm racking my brain thinking of how I can use some of these items when I don't have a kid and am too old to be losing teeth for the tooth fairy?
I got my niece and nephew custom-designed tooth fairy pillows from this talented artist:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/toocutesewclever?ref=search_shop_redirect
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Best tooth fairy experience: I was on vacation, lost my tooth, and feared the TF would not know where to find me. Using a band aid, I taped to the motel door a note telling the TF that I was in the bed near the window. That morning I woke to a ton of coins slipped under the door by fellow motel guests.
My mom sewed from quilt scraps tooth fairy pillows when I was a kid. I have lately been embroidering onesies for friends' babies. There is a lot of work that goes into the images I embroider and I have thought that if once the onesies are not too puked or shit on once they are outgrown, I will have them send them back to me, cut out the image and turn it into a tooth fairy pillow.
My first grade teacher made the entire class adorable quilted tooth fairy pillows for Christmas. I used it for all of my teeth and then passed it down to my children. I am sad that it is reaching the end of its days but I will always remember the wonderful gift from one of my favorite teachers. And who knows? Maybe my grandchildren will use it next.
These are pretty cute! I love that Little Red Riding Hood box.
But whatever happened to just putting your tooth under your pillow? That's what we did.
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My kids are 6 and 2. No teeth lost just yet but planning to just put it under their pillow! These are cute but seem excessive. To each their own. Honestly the idea of kids losing their teeth and parents saving them and such creeps me out.