Cooking with my kids with a little help from The Learning Tower {review & giveaway! ends 12/25}

December 10, 2009 By Sarah Filed Under Cool Finds

My son, and subsequently my daughter, (she has to do whatever her big brother does!), love to help me out in the kitchen these days. It usually means they get to lick a spoon or a bowl and then consume yummy treats after they are baked. Just now we made some pumpkin spice cookies….they are cooking as I type. Both kids also helped me cook during Thanksgiving too. Yay for tiny helpers!

All of this cooking and helping is thanks to The Learning Tower! This is the BIGGEST helper of all, allowing my kids to stand safely at the height of the counter to help mom, while cooking or “cleaning” dishes.

Check out all these super cool benefits of The Learning Tower
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What I love about our Learning Tower
-It can hold the weight of TWO kids…actually it can hold up to 500 pounds so even I can use it to get to those high shelves in our kitchen.

-The platform where the kids stand goes up and down very easily. If Leah is using it alone I can raise it higher and then move it back down for when Cameron uses it. It’s very very easy to adjust!
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-It cleans really easily with just a damp sponge.

-The quality is top notch and made of solid construction and the wood is really fashionable and available in nine colors to fit your decor.

-It’s SAFE – no more bringing a chair from the dining room to the counter, only to have your kids fall off with one step backwards, or using a step stool which provides no safety from falling. The Learning Tower keeps the kids contained yet allows them easy access to get in and out on their own, so they feel independent but parents know they are safe.

The Learning Tower is a tad heavy and rather large. It would be great if it had wheels, although then I am not sure how safe it would be. We have a smaller kitchen and it works well for us, I just store it out of the kitchen when not in use, and because it’s made of great quality wood, it’s not an eye sore and the kids can use it for other play, such as a fort.

The Learning Tower can also turn into an art easel or a play house, both items can be bought separately for about $70.

Win!

The Learning Tower is giving away one tower to an Ohana Mama reader.

How to enter: CLOSED

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Ends: 12/25 at 11:59 p.m. Hawaii time (we’re 2 hours behind the West Coast)

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About Sarah
Aloha! I'm Sarah, a California native, mom blogger who traded traffic filled freeways & cold West Coast waters for a beach house in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I now call Maui home and share my parenting dispatches from paradise here on The Ohana Mama. You can also follow and catch up to the minute happenings of my Maui life on twitter, @SarahBHawaii.