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We did at 6 months with a loaded spoon and plate. He started with a fork around 13m

We started using a separated plate or bento tray around nine months. Now, at one year, she wants to use utensils on her own. It's a bit messy, but she has suprisingly good accuracy.

My LO has always wanted to use her own spoon! She was accurate fairly consistently by around a year. We started using plates and bowls when we started solids at six months.

We started a plate 10-11 months. Then spoon at 12 months. Fork around 15 months. She still eats mostly with her fingers, but she is getting better about it.

Mine are 14 months and don't use anything! I've tried and they just throw it all on the ground, it's so dang annoying!

At 6 months (with a spoon) but that got messy real quick, so I took it away and it was distracting her. We reintroduced utensils at 14 months (spoon, fork) and heavy real plates (Corelle)...she's been doing really well with it all. Still feeds herself with her hand half the time, but makes more attempts to use her spoon/fork or at least wants to just hold it during her meal.

We have always done plates/bowls but she started using a spoon around 10 months, usually oats or cereal with yogurt so it wouldn't fall off. Around 1 we started giving her a fork and now at 15 months she really seems to be getting the hang of it. She refuses to start dinner without one, even though she mostly holds it and uses her other hand

We started with a spoon around 15/16 months. We only sporadically use a plate now at 17 months. We're not consistent about it.

With my first I introduced it earlier but can't remember when and he is 5 now and still likes to eat with his hands but mostly picks at his food with his hands. My second used utensils probably around 8 months or so. He perfected using utensils at an earlier age, definitely before 12 months. He is still a great eater with utensils but is getting distracted by his big brother, teaching him horrible table manners. But he is great at drinking soup though! Every kid is different and I didn't push either of them to use utensils at an early age. Now, I have to tell them to take a bite.. speaking of.. have to go tell them to take a bite again right now. *sigh*