Tooth Fairy Bag

One of my biggest regrets with the tooth fairy is having my kids put their teeth under their pillow! It is so stressful for the poor tooth fairy to dig around under their sleeping heads to find those tiny little teeth. My 5 year old lost her first tooth last year and she was very concerned that the tooth fairy wouldn't be able to find the tooth, so we improvised and made a tooth fairy bag to hang on her door.

I didn't take any other pictures because this was a last minute craft to appease my sweet girl, but it was so worth making it! The tooth fairy's life just became so much easier because she just has to find the bag hanging on the bedroom door, retrieve the tooth, and leave the money in the bag!

To make the bag, I just free-handed a tooth shape on some white felt (make 2).

I sewed along the edge of the tooth bag, leaving the top of the tooth open to put the tooth/money in.

I used some red ribbon and sewed that to the top of the bag for easy hanging, and we were done!

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When the Tooth Fairy Doesn't Come

Recently my 9 year old lost another tooth. I never realized until we entered the tooth-losing stage of life how often this happens! The next morning I found him under my bed in a foul mood, and when I asked why, he told me the tooth fairy never came. He was heart-broken, and my heart broke a little for him. Thankfully, our tooth-fairy was able to sneak in during the day while he was at school and left a sweet note under his pillow (with a small bonus for her tardiness):

My son found it and said it all made perfect sense now, and that he's never throwing that note away.
Has the tooth fairy ever not shown up at your house? What was her reason?