Children Are Learning Important Life and Fine Motor Skills As They Learn to Feed Themselves Using Sp
Children's cutlery sets make great gifts to give to a young child on their first birthday. Children of this age are excited about food, often showing an independent streak and wanting to start to feed themselves and generally have the hand-eye coordination skills necessary to use at least a spoon by themselves.
Designed With Children's Developmental Needs in Focus
Children's cutlery sets are specially designed to be lightweight and their curved handles make it simple for parents to feed their children using the spoon or fork, or for developing toddlers to practice feeding themselves. They often include a slightly larger width in the handles making it easier for the baby to grasp the handle and deal with the weight of whatever is on the end of the spoon.
Of course, all babies make a mess when they first learn to feed themselves and allowing your toddler to feed himself is inevitably going to make a mess of everything. This is an important age of development for a child and learning to use cutlery is not only an important social skill but will help him learn to hold a pencil and do a range of other fine motor and hand and eye co ordination activities.
Ideal First Foods
Ideal first foods for a baby to practice with include liquid type foods such as yoghurts and custards as well as stewed fruit, mashed vegetables and rice. Babies enjoy the sensation of food in their hands, so don't be surprised if your little toddler decides that using the spoon is time consuming and less fun than putting his hands in the food. Likewise, this is the delightful age, when the best pictures can be taken as his first attempts to get the food in his mouth often results in food smeared around his face.
Child Care Friendly Foods
It may be very tempting to try to take over the process and feed your baby his food, but the more patient you are with the attempts and the mess, the sooner he will learn how to use his cutlery properly. This can be very useful if he is in a childcare environment or if you intend leaving him with other people. You can supply him with finger foods to supplement his attempts at feeding himself from his bowl using his own special cutlery.
Specially made baby cutlery sets are a gift that will grow with your child and often will be passed onto other younger family members, making them the perfect gift for any child.
Designed With Children's Developmental Needs in Focus
Children's cutlery sets are specially designed to be lightweight and their curved handles make it simple for parents to feed their children using the spoon or fork, or for developing toddlers to practice feeding themselves. They often include a slightly larger width in the handles making it easier for the baby to grasp the handle and deal with the weight of whatever is on the end of the spoon.
Of course, all babies make a mess when they first learn to feed themselves and allowing your toddler to feed himself is inevitably going to make a mess of everything. This is an important age of development for a child and learning to use cutlery is not only an important social skill but will help him learn to hold a pencil and do a range of other fine motor and hand and eye co ordination activities.
Ideal First Foods
Ideal first foods for a baby to practice with include liquid type foods such as yoghurts and custards as well as stewed fruit, mashed vegetables and rice. Babies enjoy the sensation of food in their hands, so don't be surprised if your little toddler decides that using the spoon is time consuming and less fun than putting his hands in the food. Likewise, this is the delightful age, when the best pictures can be taken as his first attempts to get the food in his mouth often results in food smeared around his face.
Child Care Friendly Foods
It may be very tempting to try to take over the process and feed your baby his food, but the more patient you are with the attempts and the mess, the sooner he will learn how to use his cutlery properly. This can be very useful if he is in a childcare environment or if you intend leaving him with other people. You can supply him with finger foods to supplement his attempts at feeding himself from his bowl using his own special cutlery.
Specially made baby cutlery sets are a gift that will grow with your child and often will be passed onto other younger family members, making them the perfect gift for any child.