The bedtime dummy - I want 2yo DD to drop it, but how?

[Hulababy]

DD (2y 5m) has a dummy at bedtime only.

But now she is older I am keen for it to be gone, as I am not keen, and they must hoard all sorts of germs as I never seem to remember to put them all in the dishwasher!

Now how to go about it, and cause as little distress to DD as possible???

I already have a M&S chocolate star chart in the house and thought we could make use of that, and Ihave mentioned to her that "big girls don't need doidys...the doidy fairy will need to come and take them soon...as you're a big girl now...give them to some new little baby's who don't have pne yet..."

She has listen to it and get's the idea, but I am not convinced she is going to be so willing to follow it all through.

Any advice, please?

When dd turned 3 we told her that dummies were only for little children and once you were 3 they didn't taste nice any more.
On the night before her 3rd birthday we painted her dummies with stop biting your nails stuff and sure enough, in the morniing her dummies tasted horrible.
She never asked for one again.
In fact it was so successful that when dh playfully offered her ds's dummy the other day she recoiled in horror saying "no, they taste horrible!"
A bit mean but very effective .

What a good idea sponge - wish I'd thought of that. DD was a nightmare about getting rid of her "doidy" . A little boy over the road used to have his until he was nearly finished reception (and a bottle) until his friend was playing there one day and found his bottle of milk down the side of the settee with his dummy and he was an only child at this point!!

Cheers so far. Things to think about. It's only night time she has it, so I did wonder if I should find something as a replacement - a new special teddy or something, or a bedtime outfit for Baby Annabel so she can sleep in DD's bed...

When ds twins had their dental check-up a few months ago at the age of 2 we were advised that, if still using dummies, to get rid.

I went home and hid the dummy, neither asked for it at bedtime although they were awake longer. Took a while to get the sleep pattern back but I didn't say I was going to take them otherwise it would have been chaos.

After a couple of weeks' build-up we got Dd to post hers to dummy fairy (addressed to my sister) and then went to toysrus to choose a scooter - this was the only toy she had been asking for repeatedly and is definitely for big girls (she can hardly do it yet). had one day fierce tantrum whe she was tired anyway, about a week of plaintive requests, and now one month on i think she has mentioned it in passing once or twice. she has slept perfectly well. quite painless really, but i think th key thing was the preparation and build up to the big day and then DD's active participation in posting etc.