https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:45:29 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417835 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:20:29 +0000 sandy 2417835@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Grandparents gifted it to LO for Christmas when she was 13 months. They got it on a Black Friday sale from Little Partners. We use it so much - when she was little just to hang out in the kitchen with me and do different crafts and sensory play (kinetic sand was a big one when she was little). At 4 we still use it but now for helping me in the kitchen. I like that it's a safe place for her with no risk of falling. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417829 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:16:04 +0000 twodoghouse 2417829@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We love ours soooo much! We have ours at the bar where we used to have a bar stool, so we aren't taking up too much space. It is the only way I ever get any cooking done because they are with me, but contained. They also work on art projects, stickers, and eat snacks there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417825 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:12:34 +0000 Ms maths 2417825@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I built one using an Ikea bekvam stool (about $40 for the supplies) for my son's 1st birthday. He uses it many times every day; he can move it around the kitchen himself and get in an out of it himself. It is the most used kid item in our house.</p> <p> I actually just built another one in preparation for the next kid. She's too little to be safe by herself in it, but she LOVES every time she gets to use it with one of us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417822 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:10:11 +0000 Mae 2417822@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It is more of a hazard than a help for our 20 mo old. I'm hopeful that it will be more useful in a few months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417818 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:07:54 +0000 jetsa 2417818@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We built one off the Ana white plans and use it multiple times a week. We didn't put the hinges on it because it wasn't important to us that it fold. It was a cheap quick project and gets plenty of use. In a kitchen chair Jack would def step off the side or somehow fall. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417802 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:56:39 +0000 cookiemomster 2417802@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have one! It's collapsible which helps, we just got it for Christmas but so far I love it. </p> [attach=4591/16/o0theg.450x600.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417778 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:45:31 +0000 jape14 2417778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We got one for DS for Christmas this year - he's 16 months. I got it at Target online for 20-25% off sometime in November. So far it's been a huge hit and especially helpful in the mornings - DH makes him breakfast every morning while he stands in the learning tower and he happily eats there while DH can get other things accomplished. I think it's been a success so far bc DS is what we describe as "nosy" - he constantly wants to be up and see what we are doing, since he was about 2-3 months old. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417776 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:44:38 +0000 hitchhiker 2417776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We love ours and it got used many times daily in our old apartment because the space was better for it (end of a peninsula). Now it's relegated to a corner and only comes out on the weekend when she helps to cook. I stalked them on Craigslist and paid about $100. So I would say, consider your space and see if you can get a bargain. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417771 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:39:54 +0000 MrsF 2417771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DH made one for my DD and it is one of our most used pieces of "gear". My DD is 3 and has used it several times every day for the last 1.5 years. She eats her breakfast, snacks and lunch in it and uses it almost every night to "help" me cook dinner. She's much happier eating in the tower so that she can still be a part of whatever I'm doing in the kitchen. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417766 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:35:45 +0000 Anagram 2417766@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I kind of wanted one, but my LO was able to stand on kitchen chair turned backward by 1.5, and now at 2.5 she just stands on her regular stool that we use for washing hands, pottying, etc. We live in a small space, so she drags is from her bathroom (the main bathroom) to the kitchen and back. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417751 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:26:33 +0000 ShootingStar 2417751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We got DS one for his 2nd birthday and it's the most used item in the house, no joke. We use it literally every single day, most days multiple times. He stands in it every morning for breakfast and he loves to watch me cook in it. It's also been a lifesaver for me because it used to be hell getting him dressed in the morning. Like, crying, screaming having to hold him down. In the learning tower he happily gets dressed standing up while he eats. I've even perfected the standing diaper change in it 😝. </p> <p>Ours is at the end of our peninsula and there's plenty of room around it do it doesn't get in my way. I also like that it keeps DS safer than a stool would. He would definitely fall off a stool given half a chance. </p> [attach=2504/16/o0tg09.450x600.image.jpeg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417745 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:24:51 +0000 regberadaisy 2417745@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Champagne: @Bao: we have this one and its collapsible.<br /> Guidecraft Kitchen Helper: Natural G97325 <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SQNAQC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_vwfLwb0FKXHAE" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SQNAQC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_vwfLwb0FKXHAE</a></p> <p>There are also a lot of DIY plans online! We just never had time with all the house Reno project a! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417740 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:20:21 +0000 PurplePeony 2417740@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I built ours (with some help from my dad) and LO loves it. We hinged it so it can fold, but she uses it pretty much daily so we never do fold it. I like that it's safer than a chair or stool, and it's also higher so she can see and do more at the counter. I'd never let her climb that high without the surrounding rails. We can lower the platform as she grows. Without the hinges, it probably would have been $25-30 -- totally worth that, IMO! The hinges doubled the cost and aren't really worth it for us because we never fold it, but I guess they'll be useful some day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417737 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:17:53 +0000 catlady 2417737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have one and I love it. It is a FunPod, which is unfortunately pretty expensive for what it is, but it was also the only one that was both skinny and enclosed (we didn't want her to be able to climb in and out by herself when we first bought it, since she was only about a year old). We have a tiny kitchen and I worried about it taking up even more room, but it is actually easier to have her in the FunPod than running around underfoot. Ours has multiple levels so we just lower it as she grows. We are going to get many more years out of it and I don't regret it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417734 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:16:19 +0000 californiadreams 2417734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i only heard of them on HB and thought it was a neat idea, looked it up and said no when i saw the price. didn't seem worth it to me as we came this far without ever really needing one. We recently bought DS a step stool (plastic) from walmart and he loves it. He is 3 years and 2 months and we probably could have bought it a few months ago. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417727 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:14:08 +0000 regberadaisy 2417727@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have one that my brother bought her last year for Christmas. I wished I had asked for one earlier! It is so great not to have to supervise her like we did on a stool or chair. Right now anything that we let her do in the kitchen she can do independently. If she was on a stool or chair I would feel like I had to hover. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417725 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:13:17 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2417725@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I like the idea of them but I agree with the space issue. It would drive me nuts I think. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/learning-tower-1#post-2417722 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 20:11:37 +0000 Bao 2417722@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm curious how many of you have a learning tower, and if you think it was worth the cost... I only ever heard of them through Hellobee so I don't know anyone personally who has one. My LO's both like to help out in the kitchen and I think one of these would come in handy. On the flip side though, it would take up space which could drive me crazy...and soon enough my 3.5 year old could use a regular stool to reach. She currently just sits on the counter though. </p> <p>What are your thoughts on these? Have one and love it? Not something you care to have? </p>