We eat with our eyes. Make food fun and exciting for little ones. You’ll be amazed at what they try! You probably have most of these “tools” at home already.
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Cut food into different shapes. Uriah recently learned the word ‘heart’ and gets excited when he sees things with a heart shape. 💙
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Try: heart tortillas, biscuits, fruit, pancakes, condiments squirted in that shape
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Older kids can use a cookie cutter to cut their own food into shapes they like!
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Use different containers than usual to serve the meal or snack. This works well when all the dishes are dirty…
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Use ice cube trays with a bite or two of each food in each cube
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Serve dinner on a cookie sheet
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Use your mismatched food storage containers to serve a meal
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Silicone muffin cups for food or dipping sauces
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Cereal and milk in a cup instead of a bowl 🥛
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Provide plastic tongs as silverware
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Give reusable straws as an option to drink soup, smoothies, applesauce or milk 🥤🥣
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Stack foods (Chex mix, peanut butter and slice of banana 🍌)
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Use pretzel sticks as an eating utensil
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Put raspberries on their fingers to eat (model this one)
Just make it fun! Your kids will come up with even more ideas once you get them started.
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