Age: From 2 years old
Materials:
1. 1 pair of chopsticks
2. 1 bowl of pasta, noodles or sushi
Directions:
1. Show your child how to pick up the food with chopsticks
2. Encourage your child to try.
Video Demonstration by Joshua:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7zOKoxz3OE
Tips:
1. Start with serving European pasta as it is easier to pick up than Chinese noodles or rice noodles, which is very slippery.
2. If serving sushi, serve those small maki that is smaller and easier to pick up.
3. Buy both right-handed and left-handed sushi to train the right and left brain.
4. To encourage your child to use it, buy an extra pair of the training chopsticks for yourself too and use it together. Joshua usually likes to imitate me. Initially he refused to use these chopsticks, but he saw me using them and wanted to be like mommy :-) Now he asks for them himself, without me suggesting :-)
Additional Information:
On the way back from the daycare, we passed by our favourite sushi restaurant, Aji (http://www.aji.dk/). Joshua asked to buy sushi for dinner. He had been asking me to buy sushi yesterday and this morning, and I unfortunately gave in to his pestering. Joshua (2Y5M14D) ate all the 8 salmon sushi maki using the training chopsticks this evening.
For those who live near Lyngby, I highly recommend Aji restaurant. They have eat-all-you-want sushi buffet for only 98 DKK (inclusive of all taxes excluding drinks) on Sunday for lunch from 12 - 4pm.
I wrote a post on The Importance of Teaching Your Child to Use Chopsticks.
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| 18.8.2011 (2Y5M14D) - Joshua eating salmon sushi maki from Aji with training chopsticks |
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| 2 July 2011 (2Y3M28D) - First real practice with chopsticks... pretty good :-) |
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