LittleE is almost 15 months old and is pretty proficient with a spoon and fork now. She has been using a spoon for months for things like yoghurt, initially I'd load it up and hand it to her but recently she's decided she prefers to do it herself which works pretty well as long as I hold the pot and sort of angle it for her! With forks, she much much prefers using mine if she can get away with it, but otherwise a metal one is much better than plastic ones. We got a set with knife, fork and spoon from boots, they were selling some off half-price plus the additional 20% off at the moment! She's not so good at stabbing things with the fork yet, but she likes to give it a go then will hand the fork to me with a squeak that means 'load it up, mummy'.