Star was fairly well used to stirring things with peeled down sticks, so any sort of utensil was still a novelty and a luxury to her, she blinked up at his question, grinning and giving him a thumbs up as he brought it over, giving him the sign language for 'thank you', fingers brushing her lower lip and chin before sweeping her hand down in an arc to tap the back of it against the palm of her other hand.
She wasn't sure if he knew what it meant, so once she'd gotten back to the whiteboard she scribbled a quick: Thanks! and then: This'll work, I'm used to using sticks or screwdrivers or sometimes army punched-tin utensils