Make learning about dental health exciting with this fast-paced I Spy board game!
Whether you’re celebrating Dental Hygiene Month or exploring community helpers, this hands-on dentist-themed game turns vocabulary, visual discrimination, and cooperative learning into a laugh-out-loud classroom favorite.
Packed with colorful illustrations of toothbrushes, dentists, teeth, x-rays, and more, kids will love racing to spy their card image on the game board.
It’s a must-have for preschool, kindergarten, speech therapy, ELL, and any early childhood classroom that thrives on fun!
What’s Included in the Dentist I Spy Flip Game:
⭐️ 10 bright, engaging I Spy game boards featuring dental tools, people, and hygiene items
⭐️ 40 image cards with matching pictures found on the boards
⭐ 20 printable token cards for point collection and friendly competition
⭐️ Simple, clear game instructions for quick setup and repeated use
Primary Skills Reinforced:
Vocabulary Development – Students connect real-world dental objects to words, boosting early language comprehension.
Visual Discrimination – Learners practice identifying small differences in images as they scan for exact matches.
Attention and Focus – Racing to be the first to find a match keeps kids sharp and engaged.
Matching and Categorization – Kids strengthen foundational skills by comparing cards to visual scenes.
Secondary Skills (SEL + Life Skills):
Turn-Taking and Social Interaction Great for building patience, cooperation, and positive peer relationships during small group games.
Communication and Expressive Language Encourage children to name, describe, and use the pictured words in sentences to practice oral language.
Focus and Attention High-interest gameplay keeps students alert and engaged as they race to find their picture.
The Dentist I Spy Board Games are Perfect For:
Literacy or math center warm-ups– Use the game to kick off your small group time with a high-energy activity that gets kids thinking and engaged before diving into lessons.
RTI or small group work– Great for targeted practice! The visual discrimination and vocabulary connection make it ideal for intervention groups needing focused support.
Early finishers or rainy day fun – Keep those fast finishers busy (and happy!) with a meaningful game that reinforces skills without feeling like extra work.
Homeschool learning– Easy to prep and reuse, it adds hands-on play to your homeschool routine while supporting visual perception, attention, and vocabulary.
ELL students– The visual clues and image-to-word matching are perfect for supporting English Language Learners as they build vocabulary and connect words to real-world objects.
How to Play the Dentist Themed I Spy Game:
Prep your materials: Print the dentist themed word image cards, I Spy game boards, and token cards. Laminate for long-term use and cut the pieces.
Set it up: Choose one dentist themed I Spy game board and place it in the center. Deal image cards to each player.
Flip and find: All players flip one word card at a time and race to find the matching image on the board.
Win a token: The first player to spot the correct image wins a token!
Repeat and play again: Keep flipping and matching until all cards are used. The player with the most tokens wins!
Additional Ways to Use the Dentist Themed Community Helpers I Spy Game:
Independent Play: Give one student an I Spy game board and the full stack of dental themed picture cards. They flip each picture card, find the image, and cover it with a mini eraser or token. This builds visual focus and vocabulary building independently.
Parallel Play: Two players use separate I Spy game boards and take turns flipping and matching their own dentist themed picture cards at their own pace. Great for learners who need personal space or are just beginning to engage in group activities.
These options make the game even more flexible... perfect for classroom differentiation, therapy settings, or adapting to students’ emotional and developmental needs.
Perfect For:
This I Spy Dental Hygiene game is super versatile and fits easily into a variety of classroom and at-home routines.
Literacy centers and guided reading warm-ups
RTI and small group interventions
Speech therapy articulation games
Occupational therapy visual scanning practice
ESL/ELL vocabulary reinforcement
Homeschool morning baskets
Early finisher activities
Sub tub plans or no-prep day fillers
Rainy day or indoor recess fun
Simply print, laminate, cut, and go! The small storage size makes it super easy to keep everything in one place.
Standards Alignment:
✔ Texas Pre-K Guidelines:
Builds foundational language, communication, and phonological awareness skills through play and vocabulary engagement.
✔ Virginia ELDS:
Supports sustained attention, early literacy development, and cooperative play during meaningful activities.
Approaches to Play and Learning (APL):
APL3: Children demonstrate engagement and sustained attention in activities.
APL5: Children demonstrate persistence.
Communication, Language, and Literacy Development (CLLD):
CLLD3.3: Demonstrate an understanding of new vocabulary introduced through reading and other activities.
CLLD5.1: Use language to express ideas, needs, feelings, and to solve problems.
Social and Emotional Development (SED):
SED3.2: Engage appropriately with peers and adults in activities and conversations.
Cognitive Development – Math & Science (CD):
CD1.4: Use visual memory to match and recognize objects.
Fine Arts (FA):
FA3.1: Participate in visual art activities.
✔ Common Core ELA Standards:
SL.K.1a – Engage in collaborative conversations.
L.K.5c – Identify real-life connections between words and their use.
RF.K.1 – Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print (through matching and scanning).
Check out what other educators are saying:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Christine H. wrote: “I used this as a vocabulary game with my RTI group. It was great to have new types of words… and a good tool to see which students could grasp words and images quickly.”
Add this Dentist Theme I Spy Board Game to your classroom today and turn community helpers into a high-energy, screen-free learning adventure!
📥 Download Info:
This is a digital download: no physical items will be shipped.
I love the "Flip" activities. They're always colorful and engaging. These activities reinforce childrens use of language, labeling, identifying of vocabulary associated with specific themes. My students in the past have loved the Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall flip, so when I wanted to update my beginning of the school year activities I happened to find the September themed one and knew I had to purchase it. I laminate my mats and have the kids cover the images with colored small or large game chips, vase jewels or playdough. If the images on the mats are too busyi make sure to uave extra copies for the kids to engage in matching the images. The kids love it!
I am greatly appreciative of this content. I have developmentally delayed preschool baby 3-5 year olds and this really is helping them a lot. I wish I had pictures, but I don't yet.
Great game. My students love it and my kids at home. Lots of fun times playing this game. I love the variety in boards. My suggestion for customers is to print it on cardstock so you can't see through the cards.
My kindergarten students are using these clip cards as a review activity in our morning bins. This is a fun review activity that also helps build fine motor skills.