Supporting your child’s independence with eating 

• Why not let your child help prepare their lunch and snacks with you and encourage using a knife and fork to eat their meals? Can they use them correctly to eat?
• Make lunch times a little different and introduce their lunchbox to them (if you intend on providing a packed lunch).  Practice opening and closing the box, opening yoghurt cartons/tubes, opening crisps or peeling a banana.

You could also use playdough to make a lovely ‘lunch’ and learn the skill of using cutlery safely