Use foodpicks to motivate children to eat
Foodpicks
These unique Foodpicks are handcrafted and specially designed to make mealtime fun! Foodpicks are a fantastic way to encourage trying new foods with a novelty twist.
After 9 months, children are super skilled in eye-hand-mouth skills, since from 3 months it has become the axis of their learning and everything goes to the mouth! They already know how to take an object and explore it with taste, but in the diet, to go from eating with the hand in the beginning to the use of silverware is a complex motor process.
That is why there have been a thousand versions of cutlery to help children in this transition. It is at 3 years that they begin to develop that ability to know like “adults”!
Fortunately, there is an intermediate utensil that will make that process easier, those are the Foodpicks.
The use of them has many benefits:
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Recognizing a mediating instrument in food intake before using silverware.
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Teaching the need to bring the proper amount of food to the mouth.
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Favoring concentration in poking food.
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Children with hypersensitivity are encouraged to taste the food because they do not become in direct contact with the food.
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They are a fun strategy to feed themselves.
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Promoting independence.
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Decreasing the possibility of being frustrated when the food falls.
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Reducing the possibility of touching food with dirty hands at school.
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Motivating to try more variety of foods.
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Teaching about vegetables, colors, letters, etc.
