Table Knife Training Course
A first cutting lesson on soft food only, with a blunt table knife and an adult sitting right beside. Four stations, four textures, and every piece gets eaten.
What you need
- Banana
- Boiled egg
- Soft cheese
- Boiled potato or beetroot
- A blunt table knife
- A board
How to play
- Sit down beside your child and agree the rule: only this table knife, only the food on this board.
- Show the claw grip — the fingers of the helping hand curled under, knuckles forward.
- Start with banana: press the knife down slowly instead of chopping.
- Move on to boiled egg, then soft cheese, then potato, and talk about which one resists most.
- Set a challenge: cut one banana into four pieces of exactly the same size.
- Wash the knife together and put the whole board out as a snack.
