Little Rehearsal
All free printables
Dentist coloring pages with Pip the otter
Six pages that follow a visit from the front desk to brushing at home. Thick outlines, big shapes, nothing scary.
Free PDF, 6 pages, US Letter (it also fits A4). No sign-up.
The six pages
Each one is a moment a child will meet at the dentist, drawn with Pip, the otter from our game.
Pip says hello at the front desk. 
Pip reads a book while he waits. 
The dentist counts Pip’s teeth with a tiny mirror. 
The dentist’s tools: a mirror, a polisher, a sprayer, a toothbrush and a cup. 
All done! Pip did it. 
At home, Pip brushes morning and night.
How to use them
- Color and talk.Coloring the mirror is an easy time to say what it does: it helps the dentist see and count teeth.
- Start with the tools page.The tools are the unfamiliar part. Naming them at home makes them ordinary by the day.
- Bring one to the waiting room.A half-finished page and three crayons fill the wait better than a screen.
- Offices: print a stack.These are free to print and hand out. Please leave the line at the bottom in place.
The same visit, as a game
At Wren Creek, our pretend clinic, a child says hello, packs a kit and tries the mirror, the polisher and the air on Pip. It runs in the browser on a phone. Nothing to install and no sign-up.
Play the visitRun a dental practice?
Coloring pages are a small thing to send with a welcome message. A story with your practice’s name on it is a bigger one.
Get this story with your practice’s name on it, free. Or see your own rooms turned into a game that families play before the visit.
More free printables
- First dental visit social story
- What happens at the dentist: picture cards
- Brave visit reward chart
- Elsewhere, and also free: the Autism Speaks dental tool kit and the University of Iowa’s picture schedule for a dental visit, which you fill with photos of your own office.