What do you use for cutlery/plates for your 5-10 year olds?

[amidaiwish]

we seem to have outgrown the toddler Tommee Tippee stuff, and the Ikea plastic stuff... now what? everything seems to be for babies and toddlers.

do you just get your kids used to adult cutlery and normal plates? or do you have separate cutlery, plates etc. for your primary school aged children?

TIA

Ordinary crockery/cutlery for the DSs (10 & 7) but I do tend to give the 7 year old a smaller (3/4) size plate, as it's easy to give them too big portions on the larger family dinner plates.

DH is terrible for serving up HUGE portions and then getting stroppy when they don't eat it.

All the recent healthy eating stuff about "me-sized" portions for kids is SOOOOOOO true - it's too easy to give kids too much.

Normal stuff for 8yo and 2yo. Although the little one has plastic or small metal cutlery. Maybe starter cutlery if I remember for the 8yo.

If the 2yo is having something tricky I'll use his sucker-bowl.

taffeta - I'm with you...I have various character melamine plates and bowls for when my young nieces stay, but I always find myself drawn to having my morning toast on my their favourite Dora plate - they're a bit easier to knock about when I'm half-asleep and clumsy in the mornings!

Mine have just turned 6 and 8, and they've been using china plates, adult cutlery and real glasses since they were about 3 and 5. I did have some small 'real' cutlery, but I lost it and couldn't face replacing it. They'd be mightily peeved if I suddenly started serving food on plastic plates (in fact, they were both put out by plastic stuff at school). Having a proper knife and fork doesn't mean that DS can be bothered to use them properly, though.

Exactly the same as uptoapoint who said 'We've used normal cutlery and plates for the kids since weaning. So far the only people who have chipped or broken plates and bowls are the grown-ups ...'

plastic stuff is awful.

I was looking for some new cutlery for my 7 yr old DS and came across this website www.cutleryandcatering.co.uk/childrens-cutlery-harley-boxed-p-587.html
I'll be ordering some for him.

My 10 year old loves his old toddler plastic plates and has them at weekends for tea. Otherwise normal china plates, though use fairly small size ones cos DD is greedy. DD also likes her baby cutlery and puts it out whenever she lays the table. It doesn't worry me and I like the spotty melamine picnic stuff we have and sometimes choose to use it for the whole family.

Mine are 6 and 8 and have had normal adult cutlery and crockery for the past 3 years.

They have their own Emma Bridgewater mugs especially reserved for hot chocolate.

My DD's - 8 & 6 - use the came crockery and cutlery we do and have for ages.

5 - 10? Why would you use anything other than what the family normally uses?

Normal plates & cutlery for my DCs and they've been using them since they were 2 years old.

They use regular glasses too though we did switch to thick glass when DS bit into one of the thin ones!

Ordinary players and cutlery once they were past the lobbing stuff on the floor - maybe 18 months/2? We've still got plastic plates lurking and occasionally just grab that for a sandwich or whatever, even for me, but for proper meals - not since highchair days

The OP's children might have left home by now!