Chow Down: 11 Terrific Mealtime Tools for Toddlers

Find yourself dining with a toddler with some regularity these days? Check out these tools that'll make mealtimes easier for you and more exciting for your little eater.

By Tinybeans Team February 15, 2016

Editor’s Note, November 2018: For our most up-to-date story on awesome utensils and tools for kids mealtime, click here for our most recent coverage.

You chop their food into little pieces. You’ve had food flung at your head. You spend a good portion of your time wiping down the floors, walls, and cabinets. Are you: A) the lead nutritionist at a zoo, or B) the parent of a toddler during meal times? Assuming the answer is in fact, B, then perk up, buttercup! We’ve got a dynamite list of tools to help make “feeding times” easier for you and more fun for the wild things in your life.

Boon Benders

Sometimes the farthest distance between point A and point B is on a toddler’s spoon. Give them a hand with Boon’s bendable spoons, so no matter what their course, they’re pointed in the right direction. Our favorite thing about these flexible feeders? You can bend them over and over to adjust for your toddler’s improving hand-mouth coordination.

Available online at amazon.com
$4.49.

Photo: Boon

How do you manage mealtime mayhem with toddlers? What other gizmos should we add to our list? Tell us in our comments section below.

— Shelley Massey