WhatXlabs

Flower Bowl

A fun eating tool for individuals with diverse motor abilities

  • Yellow
  • Blue
  • Pink
  • Light green
Four Flower Bowls from above: six petals in yellow and light green, eight petals in blue and pinksix petalseight petals
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A full spoon,
every time

Flower Bowl gives the spoon a rail. The walls keep the food in front of it, tactile ridges give friction, and the curved corner at the end of each petal tips the food on.

  1. 01Start in a petal
  2. 02Push through the centre
  3. 03End in the corner of another petal
  4. 04Up comes a full spoon
A pink Flower Bowl with cereal in its petals and the toddler spoon lifted from the end of a petal, full of cereal
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Food separation

A different food in every petal: good for kids who don’t like their foods to mix.

  • 01Portion framing“Just one more petal and we’re done.”
  • 02Cooler foodShallow channels open the food to the air, so it can cool sooner.
A pink Flower Bowl from above, hummus in the middle to dip into and a different food in each petal: cheese, cherry tomatoes, crackers, cucumber, carrot sticks and blueberriesone more petal and we’re donehummus to dip into
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In use

For a child still learning to feed themselves, and for adults with diverse motor needs, on their own or with a caregiver.

InputAn imprecise spoon
InterfaceThe petal channel
OutputA steady, measured scoop
A smiling toddler in a high chair scooping cereal from a coral Flower Bowl
A child, feeding themselves
An adult hand guiding a spoon through cereal in a coral Flower Bowl
An adult, or a caregiver helping

Next steps

Manufacturing scheduled for 2027.

The prototypes are printed and fragile; the bowl itself will be vacuum-formed in BPA-free plastic.

01Patent pending

An application is filed.

02BPA-free plastic

Vacuum-formed in BPA-free plastic before any testing with children.

03Manufacturing

Scheduled for 2027, in yellow, blue, pink and light green.

04Educational programs

Learning programs to go with the bowl.

Six petals
Eight petals, with a standard teaspoon
  • Yellow
  • Blue
  • Pink
  • Light green

Flower Bowl · An invention by WhatXlabs