Melamine Plate, Melamine Cups and Childrens Cutlery Set
By: William Jackson
Submitted: 2010-07-21 05:56:24 | Word Count: 590
What’s so great about melamine? It doesn’t break, it’s cheap, it’s colourful and it’s easy to wash. In that order. What better thing is there than a melamine plate for kids mealtimes? You can even accessorise with melamine cups and a childrens cutlery set. According to the Scandinavian Children’s Store, ‘Kidsen’, which has been retailing the best in funky fashions and mealtime trends for little people since its recent inception, the best way to integrate kids into the everyday life of the family is to give them their own versions of everything adults use and make them fun – and one can’t find any fault with that logic at all.
The melamine plate is the absolute ideal meal time accessory for any child. Because melamine is so easy to colour, a melamine plate tends to be brightly decorated – either with strong vibrant colours, fun animals and food pictures or with children’s favourite characters from books and TV. The colours alone, on both plates and melamine cups, are enough to get the child interested in the whole act of meal time: enough, in fact, that simply moving the food around to get a better look at what is on the plate underneath can be enough to kick start an eating habit. The melamine plate is great for weaning.
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Childrens cutlery sets are important when weaning too. Obviously, a child can’t have a proper cutlery set – for one, it’s plainly too dangerous, and for two it’s too big. Using child’s cutlery, again, brings an element of fun and discovery to the process of meal time. All kids love to mimic adults – that’s how they learn and grow. Using the melamine plate and the kids cutlery makes that all happen: the children are using objects that are like the adult eating equipment, but still fun and safe enough to make them want to use them repeatedly. Not to mention the fact that childrens cutlery sets, melamine plate and melamine cups also distinctly mark the eating equipment as the child’s own – giving him or her a sense of belonging to the environment, which using adult gear can never do. When a child uses an adult plate instead of a melamine plate, he or she is conscious that he or she is almost trespassing in an adult world; when the same child uses a melamine plate and not adult eating gear, he or she feels validated. It’s all about drawing the line between mimicking and pretending: children’s cutlery, melamine plate and melamine cups allow a child to mimic and learn, whereas using adult cutlery and so on would make the same child feel that he or she is just pretending to do adult things.
It’s bright, it’s fun and it’s safe – melamine is also easy to wash, which is ideal when dealing with the incorrigible mess a child will happily make at every meal time. It bounces, too – and anyone who’s ever tried to teach a child to eat for him or her self can tell a thousand stories about how useful it would have been to have a bouncing plate! Let them learn naturally, and with fun. Get a melamine plate, some melamine cups and a children’s cutlery set.
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The children’s cutlery set, the melamine plate and the melamine cup – a parent’s three most valuable weapons in the weaning arsenal.Rice melamine cups, plates and cutlery available in a range of colours. Perfect for kids, but great for adults too.
