Let’s Eat Together Mealtime Activity Placemat – Making Meals Fun!

Mealtimes in our home are eaten together, at the dinner table. No matter what any of us are doing we stop it and sit down to eat our meals together. I grew up always having wonderful home cooked meals so I really make sure my kids have the same experience. It’s a great time to talk about our day, talk about what we expect tomorrow to be like and anything they want to talk about – we do!

When you have as many kids as I do it can be difficult for them to not get bored, or sit around and either wait for everyone else to finish – or the other kids wait for the littlest kids to finish.  I like us all sitting at the table until everyone is done. When we received the Let’s Eat Together Activity Placemat I was excited to try it and see how parts of dinnertime would change.

While Justin was a little too small for this placemat (hes still 2 until September) Kyla, Jayden and Jackson had a lot of fun with it. Kyla was able to doodle when she wanted to, answer questions – and the reading helped her, Jayden and Jackson. Having to read the questions to be able to check mark them off was a huge plus!

The placemat also helped open up conversation a bit more. “What shall we talk about” was a lot of fun for everyone at the table. Having to answer: “What rhymes with…” and “What’s the opposite of..” was a lot of fun and our favorite..

Kyla enjoys using it during her snack time when the other kiddos are at school and she gets a chance to chat with me solo, and we can take advantage of all the questions together!

About the Let’s Eat Together Activity Placemat:

To help parents and carers maximize their children’s mealtime experience, our double sided dry erase ‘Let’s Eat Together’ placemat (11 x 18 inches and includes a pen) is a fun, interactive tool that children just love to complete after a meal. Side one provides a check off system encouraging children to learn their table manners and side two provides fun activities to play at the table after a meal.

Side one: some of the ‘table manners’ include:

• I helped set the table
• I have washed my hands before eating
• I didn’t talk with food in my mouth
• No playing gadgets at the table
• I helped clear the table

Side two: some of the ‘activities’ include:

• What’s your best loved? (choose a theme such as animals, letters, food and then discuss why)
• What makes you feel? (happy, excited, proud, worried or tired and then discuss why)
• Animal alphabet fun (see if you can complete the alphabet naming an animal for each letter)
• What’s the opposite of? (think of some fun, simple words suitable to your child’s age)
• Just doodle

Where to purchase and price:

You can purchase on Amazon and The Victoria Chart Company website where you will be directed to purchase for $12.50.

For more information please check out: The Victoria Chart Company

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post. I was given this product complimentary to post this review. However all opinions are mine and 100% true.