Tauranga's kohanga reo are challenging people to get involved in the World Oral Health Day competition.
In a press release, Papamoa's Te Kohanga Reo o Te Akau have taken on the challenge for National Oral Health Day tomorrow, by helping teach parents and children how to brush and look after teeth.
Te Kohanga Reo o Te Akau kaimahi (head teacher) Waiwhetu Walker said the kohanga wanted to get people involved in the challenge for the sake of their children.
"We have taken the approach of teaching the parents through the children, so what you find is that the children will be taking the lessons learned here back into the family home. The competition helped reinforce those messages."
Twenty-six Bay of Plenty early childhood centres had been given an activities book by the Bay of Plenty District Health Board oral health promotion team to record their challenges.