Kids Table and Chairs?

What age if at all did you let your twins try to eat at a little table or kid picnic table?
I was over to a friends for a birthday party and the girls ate at a kid picnic table and loved it and ate everything. I am just wondering if it was a noveltie and if they had it at home it would just be a huge mess???
Help if anyone has switched your children
Thanks Tania

 

I think my DS was definitely 2. He was old enough to each with utensils I think. We love our little table. It would be a good Christmas present for your girls!

 

I found a great deal on a Little Tykes picnic table ($7!) so I got it, thinking they wouldn't be ready for it. Got it home, cleaned it all up & set it out for them and they just LOVED it. So I've been keeping it in the house for snacks, or taking it to Grandma's if we go over for dinner (if we're eating outside on the lawn).

Today, though, I was wanting to hose off the regular high chairs really well, so I had them in the driveway to be cleaned & thought it'd be a good time to see how they did with just the table.....what a mistake!! Although they love it & will normally eat well at it, today they just wouldn't sit still. They'd take a bite, get up & all over the house. Come back for another bite & take off again....


Anyway, we still love ours & I think for awhile still it'll be the "snack table".

 

I was at my friends house over the weekend and my travel (hook on) high chair didn't fit on her table so she brought out her son's table and chair set. I was a little nervous to put them on the chairs but we had to other option. They sat on those chairs and and ate off the table like big kids for the whole meal. I was totally shocked!! I would say yours are most likely at a good age to start, maybe it would be a good Christmas present.

 

Goodness, we have been eating at our little table and chairs or picnic table for some time (since maybe 18-20 months). They usually get lunch on one of those tables, and then the other meals are at the big table with the family. They love sitting at their pint-sized tables and they sit and chat while doing so. It is fun to watch. BUT...mine usually do not eat as well at their little tables because I am not sitting with them. WHen we all sit together and eat, they tend to eat well and mealtimes are a little less stressful.

 

That was their 2 year b-day gift from my MIL. At first, they didn't eat at it until I hurt my back. And, then that became easier than picking them up into chairs. Mine really like their set a lot. We use it everyday.

 

Thanks for posting this. I was just on walmart.com trying to decide on table & chairs fior my two. Anyone reccommend any one in particular? Thanks!