- Mom: What's this?
- Child: Spoon?
- Mom: What do we do with a spoon?
- Child: Cereal
- Mom: You are right. We use a spoon when we are EATING cereal. Can you say we use a spoon to EAT?
- Child: We use a spoon to eat.
You could also start to expand your child's understanding by naming other things that you use a spoon to eat: ice cream, soup, pudding, yogurt, etc.