My mum use to crush the tablet/s in a cup with the back of a spoon then mix some honey in with the crushed tablet.
Last winter we gave DD some ease a cold tablets, which were too big for her to swallow, so we crushed it and added the honey, and she drank them with water or milk. She thought it was great that she didnt have to swallow a pillow! Some tablets are easy to crush and others are really hard, like the ease a cold ones.

Nic