A placemat that has thought of it all
We've all eaten out with our little ones. And we've all tried countless ways to entertain them before their food arrives. I'm sure you've seen or even tried the disposable, stick down placemats. You know the kind… the Saran Wrap-ish, "table topper" mats decorated with a favorite character such as Elmo or Dora that barely sticks to the table with pasty strips on two sides. Ava will get bored in matter of minutes and thinks it's fun to pull the mat off of the table defeating the whole purpose. And then I found the Classy Kid Keep Me Coloring Creative Germ Defense Placemat
These mats essentially do the same thing – they give your child a clean place to put their food. Only this multi-tasking mat rocks. First of all, it sticks down on all four sides as opposed to just two. But not just all four sides… it's made to wrap around the front edge of the table making it an even cleaner, more secure surface and more difficult to for your child to pull it off. I don't know what they use in their gummy paste, but it sticks. Yet at the end of the meal it easily comes off with no trace of it left behind.
And the mat keeps getting better. Each one has a design with either cute little barnyard animals or sweet looking creatures from the sea. All are in black and white so your child can color, scribble and doodle all over them. They can color with crayons right on this mat. Brilliant. Four crayons are included in each pack. But the Classy Kids people thought about things in even greater detail. Their crayons are triangular so they won't roll off the table. Again, brilliant.
So these super secure, wrap-around, adorably decorated, coloring placemats with the triangular crayons can't get any better can they? Yep, they sure can. They are waterproof. You can put "wet" items down on it such as grapes, oranges, carrots marinating in soups... and then wipe it off and the child can still write on it. It's amazing. It's so cool that it must be bad for the environment, right? Nope. According to their website, these mats are made from environmentally degradable calcium material.
Ok, so with all of this you would think these placemats would be far more expensive than the plastic, flimsy kind. But they are actually less expensive. Babies R Us carries packs of 20 for around $9 – about the same price as the 16 pack of the others. You can also find these mats at grocery stores such as Ralphs. I never thought I would love a placemat, but Classy Kids lives up to their classy name with this ingenious design.
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