Writing From Prompts - Intermediate Foundations Class

The Many Amazing Uses of Toothbrushes

by Rachel S., Grade 8

February 2, 2012

For thousands of years, people have cleaned their teeth using a multitude of objects.  The first toothbrush, a thin, small stick with frayed edges, created in 3,000 B.C., was called a "chew stick."  In 1938, a new kind of teeth-cleaning device made with nylon bristles was invented.  Although people over the years have insisted that these little brushes be used for cleaning teeth, they can also be used for a myriad of other purposes.  For example, these brushes can serve as a useful cleaning device or as a creative toy for children.

Toothbrushes, which are available with different types of bristles, can be utilized as cleaning tools.  Scrubbing a dirty toilet bowl or cleaning around a filthy sink faucet is a wonderful way to put these brushes to work.  Luckily, when people need to clean their grout, these little brushes come to the rescue.  Toothbrushes are extremely useful!  For most people, these handy implements provide easier ways to clean hard to get to places, such as corners and crevices.  Teeth-cleaning devices make great tools and are actually not just for brushing teeth.

In fact, toothbrushes serve as wonderfully useful toys for children.  Children who are creative find multiple things to do with these brushes on sticks, even using them as paint brushes.  Playing catch with these helpful implements or pretending they are guns entertains younger children.  Imaginatively, young children transform a teeth-cleaning device into a mini-rake or sand toy.  With these bristly brushes, children can also build things. Toothbrushes are actually amazing objects.  They make children elated; there are so many uses which they can find for these little brushes on sticks. 

In the olden days, toothbrushes were only intended for cleaning teeth, but now they're used for a multitude of purposes. Utilized as cleaning devices, these brushes prove to be extremely helpful objects.  Performing as creative children's toys, these bristly teeth-cleaning implements keep young children occupied.  Being used as a cleaning tool and as a child's toy are just two of the ways toothbrushes can be put to work, however.  Most importantly, these little brushes have limitless possibilities.  From cleaning teeth to cleaning grout, the ancient toothbrush has many amazing uses.