We additionally just like the inexpensive and compact Fisher-Value Wholesome Care Deluxe Booster Seat, the Phil&teds Lobster Clip-On Highchair (for journey), and the adjustable, wood Stokke Tripp Trapp Chair (which has an extended life and nice resale worth).
Our choose
This useful, compact, light-weight chair is simpler to wash than fashions costing 10 occasions as a lot.
At 7.9 kilos, the IKEA Antilop Chair is lighter, smaller, and simpler to maneuver round than most excessive chairs. But it’s additionally sturdy, sturdy, and comfy to sit down in. The graceful, plastic-and-steel building is easy and useful, with out the grime-collecting material or crumb-catching crevices that trigger issues in different chairs. In contrast with some rivals, the Antilop chair can accommodate barely greater kids, nevertheless it’s not a chair that children can proceed to make use of as they hit preschool. Meeting is simple, however eradicating and reconnecting the tray is usually a ache. And though the worth is impressively low, you will have to purchase the chair in individual at IKEA or pay additional for delivery.
Improve choose
This wood chair is tougher to wash and rather more costly than our prime choose. However it could actually really develop with a toddler, and it’s particularly appropriate for preschoolers.
If you’d like a excessive chair that blends in with grownup furnishings and may serve your child effectively from 6 months by the top of childhood and past, we suggest the Stokke Tripp Trapp Chair. In contrast with our prime choose, this 15.5-pound chair is rather a lot pricier and extra difficult—the baseline mannequin requires add-on purchases to be used with infants, and it takes some effort to assemble and modify. (You possibly can additionally simply go together with a bundled model.) However this chair is way simpler for greater youngsters to climb into by themselves. And it’s an unusually enticing piece of furnishings, one that you could be need to maintain perpetually, and if not, it ought to be straightforward to promote secondhand.
Additionally nice
This versatile seat buckles to an grownup chair, can work with or with out a tray, and folds up for the street. Nevertheless it’s harder to wash and fewer cozy than our prime choose.
The compact, 6-pound Fisher-Value Wholesome Care Deluxe Booster Seat buckles to an grownup chair, and it’s a flexible spare to maintain on the grandparents’ home. It may work as both a excessive chair with a tray or as a booster pulled as much as the desk. It isn’t as cozy to sit down in or as easy to wash as our prime choose (it has buttons and seams that may gather grime or enable spills to achieve the grownup chair beneath). In contrast with different chairs of its kind, nevertheless, this one is simpler to wash and cheaper.
Additionally nice
This foldable clip-on chair is sufficiently small to pack in a suitcase and durable sufficient to connect to a picnic desk. Plus, the material cowl zips off for (pretty) straightforward cleansing.
Phil&teds Lobster Clip-On Highchair is small and light-weight (about 4 kilos), so it’s straightforward to fold up and pack right into a suitcase—and even to wedge right into a diaper bag while you’re on the go. But it’s additionally sturdy sufficient that it feels protected to be used at a restaurant, whatever the building of the desk it clips onto.
