We additionally just like the reasonably priced and compact Fisher-Worth 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 decide
This practical, compact, light-weight chair is simpler to wash than fashions costing 10 instances 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 sleek, plastic-and-steel development is straightforward and practical, 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, however 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 could be a ache. And regardless that the worth is impressively low, you will have to purchase the chair in particular person at IKEA or pay further for transport.
Improve decide
This wood chair is tougher to wash and rather more costly than our prime decide. However it could actually develop with a baby, and it’s particularly appropriate for preschoolers.
In order for you a excessive chair that blends in with grownup furnishings and might serve your child nicely from 6 months by way of the top of childhood and past, we advocate the Stokke Tripp Trapp Chair. In contrast with our prime decide, this 15.5-pound chair is quite a bit pricier and extra sophisticated—the baseline mannequin requires add-on purchases to be used with infants, and it takes some effort to assemble and alter. (You may 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 engaging piece of furnishings, one that you could be need to hold eternally, and if not, it must be straightforward to promote secondhand.
Additionally nice
This versatile seat buckles to an grownup chair, can work with or and not using a tray, and folds up for the street. Nevertheless it’s more durable to wash and fewer comfortable than our prime decide.
The compact, 6-pound Fisher-Worth 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 comfortable to sit down in or as easy to wash as our prime decide (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 sort, nonetheless, 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 fabric 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 whenever you’re on the go. But it’s additionally sturdy sufficient that it feels protected to be used at a restaurant, whatever the development of the desk it clips onto.