What are some good foods for a toddler learning to use utensils?
Vet's Daughter asked: What are some good foods for helping a 15 month old to learn to use a toddler size fork and spoon? They pick up solids and eat. ...
Vet’s Daughter asked:
What are some good foods for helping a 15 month old to learn to use a toddler size fork and spoon? They pick up solids and eat. Plus they know to put the spoon in their mouths if we put the food on the spoon. But scooping up food and getting it in their mouths is a problem.
What are some good foods for helping a 15 month old to learn to use a toddler size fork and spoon? They pick up solids and eat. Plus they know to put the spoon in their mouths if we put the food on the spoon. But scooping up food and getting it in their mouths is a problem.
What foods worked for your baby to learn? Just for practice right now, we’re not expecting them to master it anytime soon.
Gregory
Cereal, noodles and peas was mostly what my son practiced on before moving on to other stuff. The cereal taught him to balance a spoon. The noodles taught him how to twirl a fork and bring it to his mouth without dropping anything and the peas were both for the fork and spoon. . the fork to jab it with and the spoon sometimes just to pick them up and go steady to the mouth with them. He learned quite quickly.
Pizza cut up
apple sauce
rice
fruit
cheese
ice cream
mashed potatoes
Use something that is cohesive. Like mash potatoes. Don’t use things that’s are loose and could fall all over the place, like peas or corn. Mash potatoes work well because they stick to the utinsel easy.
Mother of 18 month old. I just had to do this recently.
green bean’s are really good to start out with they can use both with it!
i hope you have good luck.
Just put a spoon in his / her hand every time you eat and let them go for it. Have scheduled mealtimes where you all eat at the same time and let them see you use utensils.
French mash. (Boiled potato, pumpkin, carrot and sweet potato cooked together and mashed with a bit of milk and butter.)
*Oatmeal – not runny
*Yogurt
*Applesauce
*Soups – thicken it up by pureeing any large pieces of meat or veggies a little bit before serving
*Small pasta like macaroni with spaghetti sauce
*Scrambled eggs – when cooking don’t stir them so much that it becomes really “crumbly”
*Tuna or chicken Salad
*Mashed potatoes (regular or sweet) or even make mashed cauliflower (looks like mashed potatoes)
*Beans like kidney, garbanzo, lima, green, baked, black
*Corn (whole kernel or even creamed)
*Pieces of fruit (bite sized) like strawberry, pineapple chunks, melon
*Rice – cook it until it is sticky or really done