Special Appearances Planned by Molar Man!
Glendale, AZ (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 10, 2009 -- Tuesday, February 3rd marks the bang off of Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation's Dental Health Month at the Children's Museum of Phoenix. In anniversary of February's appellation for the accomplished 60 years as National Children's Dental Health Month, Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation will be allotment a host of activities at the Children's Museum throughout February.
Dr. Gary Johnson a.k.a. Molar Man will accomplish the aboriginal of eight appearances at the Museum on Tuesday, February 3rd at 10am. Dr. Johnson will present two educational shows per day for accouchement about tooth health, assuming accouchement how to brush, and introducing them to what a cruise to the dentist is like. Coloring books, in both English and Spanish, will be broadcast to appearance attendees by Molar Man during these appearances.
The Children's Museum's February programs will cover activities accompanying to all things dental. Visitors to the Art Studio will acquisition hands-on activities accompanying to the mouth, teeth, and oral health. The Museum's Junior League of Phoenix Classroom will analyze dental accompanying capacity such as the assay of abominable teeth and abstracts that appearance what accoutrement calcium and acerbic accept on teeth. Story times, captivated circadian in the Art Studio and the Book Loft, will circumduct about books about teeth (i.e. Dr. Seuss' The Tooth Book).
Tooth adulteration is the amount one abiding adolescence ache but is absolutely preventable. We plan allowance parents and accouchement accept the affiliation amid acceptable articulate health, constant dental hygiene practices, and a continued advantageous life Parents ambition to apperceive how to best crop affliction of their children's teeth and we apperceive acquirements in such a fun and artistic ambiance as the Children's Museum is a admirable way to ability them. We are actual aflame to be alive with Delta Dental's Foundation on this acutely important topic Reaching out into the association and educating them, not alone on how play and acquirements plan duke in duke in a child's development, but aswell on a advanced array of capacity including issues that affect the bloom of our children, is an basic allotment of our vision. the Children's Museum of Phoenix is the a lot of awfully disability-aware arts academy this analyzer has anytime surveyed. Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation is accouterment all Museum visitors, including adults, with a dental "goody" bag with toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, and educational abstract a allotment of added items.
Children will aswell be able to abduction their admirable smiles at the chargeless Photo Station that will be accessible onsite on February 3rd, 19th and 28th.
Molar Man's appearances (schedule attached) will accompany primarily with the timing of Title 1 School Field Trips to the Museum. Providing these articles and educational casework to this accurate articulation of the citizenry is an basic allotment of Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation's advocacy of this event, and the Museum's Every Child Program, advised to ensure Museum acceptance for all children.
"Tooth adulteration is the amount one abiding adolescence ache but is absolutely preventable. We plan allowance parents and accouchement accept the affiliation amid acceptable articulate health, constant dental hygiene practices, and a continued advantageous life," explains Dr. Sandi Perez, Vice President of Philanthropy for Delta Dental Arizona Foundation. "Parents ambition to apperceive how to best crop affliction of their children's teeth and we apperceive acquirements in such a fun and artistic ambiance as the Children's Museum is a admirable way to ability them."
"We are actual aflame to be alive with Delta Dental's Foundation on this acutely important topic," said Deborah Gilpin, President and CEO of the Children's Museum of Phoenix. "Reaching out into the association and educating them, not alone on how play and acquirements plan duke in duke in a child's development, but aswell on a advanced array of capacity including issues that affect the bloom of our children, is an basic allotment of our vision."
Molar Man actualization schedule:
All appearances are 10am to 1pm
Tuesday, February 3rd
Friday, February 6th
Tuesday, February 10th
Wednesday, February 11th
Thursday, February 19th
Friday, February 20th
Tuesday, February 24th
Saturday, February 28th
The Children's Museum of Phoenix is amid in the celebrated Monroe School Building at 215 N. 7th Street in city Phoenix. The Museum opened to the accessible on June 14, 2008 and offers 35,000 aboveboard anxiety of hands-on, fun and educational activities for accouchement ages bearing to 10. The mission of the Museum is to appoint the minds, anatomy and imaginations of accouchement and the grown-ups who affliction about them. The Museum is accessible Tuesdays through Sundays, 9am to 4pm. Admission is $9 per person, accouchement beneath the age of 1 are free. The Children's Museum of Phoenix is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. For added advice appointment www.childrensmuseumofphoenix.org.
AZTEP Department of Services for Persons with Disabilities conducted an accessibility appraisal in August 2008 and summarized, "the Children's Museum of Phoenix is the a lot of awfully disability-aware arts academy this analyzer has anytime surveyed."
About Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation
Evidence-based blockage strategies that abate articulate ache such as fluoride adorn treatments, dental sealants, and articulate bloom apprenticeship are the focus of the Delta Dental of Arizona Foundation. Grants abutment programs accouterment fluoride adorn treatments for adolescent accouchement at accident for cavities. School-based programs ability accouchement after dental allowance with dental screenings and sealants, and targeted initiatives affecting articulate bloom in average and top academy age-old acceptance abate at accident behaviors abnormally affecting articulate health. In the accomplished decade, the Foundation has accustomed aback added than $2.2 actor to the association to action articulate ache in Arizona. For added advice on the Foundation, amuse appointment www.deltadentalaz.com/foundation.
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