This document presents prototypes for playful dining utensils and crockery aimed at improving the dining experience for those with limited dexterity, such as grandparents and children. The designs include a three-dimensional fork for better grip, an upside-down tea set that solves issues of stability, finger cutlery for playful eating, a slurping spoon that prevents spillage, and textured playground plates. The goal is to make eating more fun and tactile through innovative cutlery and dish designs that help overcome challenges with motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

1. DEXTERITY!

2. “I feel clumsy and I’m making a fool
of myself in front of everyone.”
“It just doesn’t work”
“It’s frustrating just watching
someone else do it”
“There’s a lot of satisfaction in just
achieving a small task”
“I feel so far away from everything”

3. We want to equalise the ‘strangeness’ of the
experience, making eating fun for everyone.

4. Playful crockery for dextrous dining.

5. Targeted at grandparents and kids.
Bringing communal enjoyment to eating.

6. ROTOYPES

7. Making dining
more fun and
tactile.

8. Overcoming stability &
solving for tea.

9. Playfulness &
practicality to
get purchase on
your food.

10. Making cutlery more
“3 dimensional”.

11. RODUCT RANGE

12. FFFFORK
A three-dimensional
fork for better grip.

13. FFFFORK

14. ROUNDED FFFFORK

15. UPSIDE-DOWN TEA SET

16. A classic tea
experience that
solves for
stability.

17. A stable saucer
with a place for
your chocolate
biscuit.

18. FINGER CACTUS
Finger cutlery for
playful eating.

19. FINGER CACTUS

20. FINGER CACTUS SET

21. SLURPING
SPOON
For slurping your
soup without
spillage.

22. PLAYGROUND PLATES
Physical surfaces for
plates.

23. PLAYGROUND PLATES

26. Playful crockery for dextrous dining.
Guy @sproutdesignltd
Alastair @acuity_design
Chloe
Emma @erm_
@Boyeun
@Haiyan
Special Thanks: @gedwards