The short answer
- From around 18 months, once your toddler stands steadily and climbs alone.
- Choose an adjustable platform: it decides how long the tower lasts.
- Small kitchen? Take a foldable or 2-in-1 model.
Is your toddler ready?
Age matters less than what your child can already do. Look at three things: does your toddler stand steadily alone, climb onto a low stool unaided, and stay with one activity for a few minutes? Then a tower works.
More on this in from what age a learning tower fits.
Measure your kitchen first
- Your worktop height: usually around 90 cm. The platform should reach it across a few settings.
- Floor space: a tower needs roughly half a square metre, plus room to climb in.
- Walkway: does the tower block the oven, the fridge or a door?
- Storage spot if you put it away: measure the folded depth too.
Which model suits you?
If the tower can simply stay in the kitchen, a fixed model is simplest: always ready, usually heavier and steadier. If it has to move aside daily, choose foldable.
From our range: the ZigZag foldable learning tower and the Sleekstep 2-in-1 learning tower, which converts into a table with a chair. All models are listed under learning towers.
Torn between the two types? Read foldable or fixed.
What your toddler actually does with it
Start small: washing fruit, kneading dough, using the tap, setting the table from the counter. Ten minutes of helping is plenty. Give your child their own task alongside yours and it stays calm without steering.
Using it safely
- Always under supervision.
- Not beside the hob; keep hot pans, knives and cords out of reach.
- On a flat, non-slip floor, pushed against the worktop.
- Check screws monthly, and the folding mechanism on foldable models.