children's cutlery (8,725 offers*)

When your child is ten months old, it is worth having a first set of cutlery for learning to eat. Your baby will not be able to guide the spoon purposefully and without losses on the way to the mouth, let alone pierce food onto the fork at the first attempt, but practice makes perfect. It is important that the baby cutlery is rounded and the handles are ergonomically shaped. This way, babies can experiment with them without risk of injury and try to emulate mummy and daddy.
It's best to give your little one their own spoon as soon as you start feeding them. Spills and noise are inevitable, but it's good for their development. Every beginning is hard and you as parents have to get through it.
Complete cutlery sets including knives are more suitable for toddlers from the age of two. From this age they can start to practice spreading butter or similar on the sandwich. For safety reasons, the knives are usually too blunt for cutting solid food.
However, you can buy the children's set beforehand and simply give the little ones the respective pieces of cutlery in due course.

There is no clear age limit for this. Once your child has had a bit of practice with their children's cutlery, can grip it securely and bring it to their mouth, you can give them "real" cutlery. Often children are ready at the age of three to four and are happy to switch to adult cutlery as it boosts their self-esteem. Others prefer their children's cutlery until they are five or six years old.
Watch your child eat. If you think the time is right and you're not afraid of them pricking the roof of their mouth with the tines of big forks, offer them real cutlery.

Children's cutlery is made of metal, usually fine silver or stainless steel, plastic or melamine.
The materials plastic and melamine have the advantage that they are very light and therefore easy to handle for the little ones. However, plastic sometimes contains softeners. Melamine cutlery releases harmful substances at high temperatures and is therefore not suitable for the microwave.
Sets made of metal convince with their appearance and robustness, but are somewhat heavier and therefore only conditionally suitable for learning how to handle cutlery.
The handles of metal cutlery are sometimes coated with silicone so that little hands can grip them better.

Some parents shy away from giving their children metal cutlery at the beginning. Due to their weight and robust appearance, the cutlery sometimes appears more solid than plastic versions. In principle, however, metal cutlery is just as suitable for children. So you can also orientate yourself here to an age of about ten months. Make sure that you do not choose cutlery that is too heavy to begin with. Aluminium, for example, is one of the lightest metals.
Handles made of non-slip material make it easier for kids to grip.

How many components a set includes differs from offer to offer. You can find two-piece sets that only consist of a children's spoon and a small fork.
Others include a knife, fork and spoon. In rare cases, instead of a knife, a pusher is included to help little ones push their food onto the fork or spoon.
A complete cutlery set for children comes with a knife, fork, tea spoon and tablespoon in a uniform design.

A nice way to give the cutlery a personal touch is to engrave the child's name on the handles of the cutlery. You can find special engraving cutlery among the offers. These are usually made of stainless steel. Of course, you can also have individual shapes and motifs engraved on the cutlery.
A personalised children's cutlery set is a great gift idea for a birth, christening or birthday.