Instead of buying plastic child-sized utensils, buy real, metal utensils at your local second hand shop. I found very inexpensive ($.25/piece) small, metal utensils, mostly salad forks and demitasse spoons while sifting through cutlery boxes at my local second hand shop. They come from incomplete sets of household cutlery, defunct airlines, closed restaurants, etc. and are the perfect size for small hands. You won't need to worry about plasticizers and leaching chemicals going into your child's mouth. You're reusing a perfectly good product, not spending a lot of money on plastic that may eventually end up in landfills or incinerators and supporting a local charity in the process. Our 3-year old has been using them for over a year with no trips to the emergency room.
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