Kit 3: Practice Feeding Skills was intentionally designed to support your toddler’s feeding development in the areas of straw drinking, utensil use, and self-feeding from a sectioned plate, all while strengthening jaw stability and swallowing coordination.
Learning to Transition From a Bottle With the Mini Cup
Transitioning from the bottle to an open cup around your child’s first birthday supports dental health, jaw development, lip closure, and tongue posture. It also decreases the risk of prolonged bottle habits that can impact airway and facial growth.
The 4oz Mini Cup gives your child the opportunity to practice independent drinking (with a little spillage). The soft silicone material protects developing teeth, and the interior cone-shape design supports a safer, slightly tucked drinking posture that helps maintain airway protection while building mature swallowing patterns.
Expert Tip: We’re not chasing perfection, we’re building coordination. Spills mean learning is happening!
Learning to Sip From the ezpz Straw Training System
The Mini Cup + Straw Training System is designed to strengthen the muscles that shape jaw growth and facial development. No hard spout. No valve to compensate for weak lips. Just true lip rounding, tongue coordination, and controlled swallowing.
The two-stage straw system allows your child to progress from sensory-supported learning with the beginner side of the straw to refined, mature straw drinking with the advanced side. This gradual progression builds strength without rushing the skill.
Expert Tip: When you place the lid and straw inside the cup, gently press the ezpz logo. This pressure primes the straw with liquid, making those first sips easier and more successful!
Supporting Scooping and Piercing Skills with the Mini Spoon & Fork
Before piercing with a fork becomes efficient, toddlers must first master wrist rotation for dipping and scooping with a spoon. Having the Mini Spoon and Mini Fork be similar in shape, weight, and mouth pressure is an intentional design feature that supports a smooth and safe transition from spoon to fork.
The heads of the Mini Spoon and Fork are made of strong nylon, which provides sturdiness for toddlers who are eating foods with multiple textures and slightly bigger bites. The sensory bumps on both the spoon and fork guide lip placement and decrease gagging commonly associated with utensil use and practice.
Expert Tip: Repetition builds refinement. Daily utensil practice supports precision, control, and safer self-feeding.
Creating Stability at Mealtime with the Mini Mat
Posture matters when eating and drinking. When food slides around a high chair tray, toddlers compensate with leaning, slouching, and twisting, which decreases oral control and increases choking risk.
The Mini Mat suctions in place, supporting trunk stability and safer swallowing while a child is eating. Its smile design promotes both the palmar and pincer grasps, keeps textures separated for sensory-sensitive eaters, and even helps parents serve balanced meals in a predictable way.
Expert Tip: Stability at the table creates swallowing precision in the mouth. Using a suction plate supports foundational feeding and drinking skills, making mealtime safer and calmer.
What Comes Next?
Once your toddler is consistently using all of the tools from Kit 3, you’ll be ready to transition to Kit 4: Celebrate Mealtime Independence. Coming soon!
