FunPod Toddler Tower - Kitchen Step-Up Stool For Kids With Height Adjustable Platform To Reduce Accidents in The Home - Natural Maple Wood

- My 16 month old LOVES her funpod. She enjoys being up to the kitchen work top with us whatever we're doing and she also enjoys playing and sitting in the 'box'. She requests to go 'up... up.... up' which makes my life so much easier as she can be involved in my cooking/baking whilst being busy doing lots of messy play/exploring whilst i am near her as at 16 months standing her on a chair is very difficult/dangerous. FOor this reason it is well worth the money.- The funpod is spacious and safe. My little one is tall for her age and is on the second setting to be at chest height with the kitchen worktop. Lots of growing room!- Easy to move around on our laminate floor leaving no marks.Only issue i've found (which i knew would happen( is that due to the safety feature of a large base on the funpod, when the funpod is against a cupboard where there is no bottom recess for the base to go under there is a space of around 7cm between the front of the fun pod and the worktop meaning lots of picking things up off the floor when my little one is up at the worktop and drops things. I try to get her up where there is a cupboard so the top of the funpod is flush wiht the worktop but we only have a small kitchen so sometimes she is round the end of our island for safety reasons when the hob is on so she can still see what i'm doing at a safe distance and i can talk/play with her.

Just purchased this for our (almost) 2 year old for Christmas and the initial trials have been a great success. Our kitchen is mostly off limits to her because we have an always-on aga but now she can join us and play while we are in working in the kitchen. She loves being at counter height, being able to see everything, and we love her being there safely and not running around grabbing everything. We now have to remember to create an exclusion zone around her reaching hands (she can reach an amazingly long way!) but it means we can cook together and she can play in the sink too. Solidly built so feels very sturdy and safe. Could get in the way in a small kitchen, but luckily we have a little hidey hole it fits in when it's not in use (the feet stick out beyond the 'box' but at least this means it won't tip over). I also think it will hold it's value pretty well for selling on when we've finished with it. Oh, and it was really easy to put together too - took me 20 minutes on my own.

My son is almost 3 years old and has mild cerebral palsy down one side, he is not strong enough to stand for long without support and if he is concentrating on other things has a tendency to slip. Other kitchen towers on the market have gaps in the sides, I was apprehensive to get one in case his leg slipped through and he hurt himself, and he would definitely not be able to stand on a chair as I did when I was small. This one with full sides where he is completely enclosed and supported is perfect for him and he absolutely loves being in it and helping out in the kitchen, calling it his 'pod' and asking to be in it at every opportunity. He can lean against the sides without any concern of him slipping. He also helped to put it together which was really simple and did not take long at all. Lots of room for growth with different heights for the platform so I think this will be a fixture in our kitchen for many years to come, and I also think it will hold its value for when we no longer need it. Although it is quite pricey it is certainly not the most expensive on the market and for our family has been worth every penny. I cannot recommend it enough for all children, but particularly for those who struggle to stand for long periods without support.

Excellent and great fun for me to use with my two year old grandson. No worries now about a kitchen chair slipping from under him. Well made, attractive, slides across the wooded floor when I need to move him around in it from sink to work top and is easy to wipe clean. Wish I'd bought it sooner.

I'd wanted to get one of these for a while after I saw one at a colleague's house. When our second child came along I thought it would be a good way of keeping our toddler entertained when the dinner was being cooked as she usually wants to be picked up then and it makes it hard to get anything done. With a new baby, that would be an even more tricky time of day!It's been a reasonably successful purchase. Our toddler is only 19m at the moment and she's a bit small for actually 'helping' but the FunPod does contain her for a while and keeps her interest as she can see stuff and reach stuff (clearly you have to be mindful of knives and cooker controls!). What she most likes is to get up by the sink and splash. That's great but she, and the kitchen, and the FunPod, end up soaked!Main main issues with this thing are the price and the build quality:- There seem to be a range of models and we got one of the cheapest ones at around £90. It's really not worth that kind of money and I'm glad we didn't buy the dearer ones which only seem to be a different colour, not any more fancy in terms of features. It's the sort of thing Ikea would sell you for half that cost if they made one.-It's made out of MDF which is about as cheap as you can get in terms of sheet timber. The screws don't bite wonderfully well when you build it and MDF is hopeless with water. It is well varnished so I'm not massively worried, but it would be a much better product in plywood.-There is a ledge that the child stands on which can be moved up and down depending on their size. This is what I disliked most as the tolerances on the cutting of this part are really rough. It simply doesn't fill all of the available width which it is meant to slot into. At first I thought there might be some danger that the ledge could collapse but I wiggled it fully and decided that it was sufficiently well connected with it's slot that it was safe, but it feels needlessly shoddy. You can for example see daylight on one side if it is pushed hard to the other side. It should fully fill both slots left and right with no play. The MDF slots are also untreated so a bit worried that the water could make them swell out of shape-It's simply not that attractive. The MDF is covered in a Maple effect skin but that looks fairly cheap and nasty by modern standards.As I say, I believe it is safe, or I wouldn't let my daughter use it, but the combination of the sloppy machining on the ledge and the screws that don't bite well did disappoint. Reading about the firm that make them it sounds like a small business, and my guess is that they haven't really got their cost base under control as it's simply too expensive for what it is but I suspect that is not due to excessive profit, I think they are making them in an inefficient and costly way which forces up the sell price. Pure conjecture, but it's a fundamentally nice story on their literature.To conclude, it's ok, safe enough and good enough, but really not one of our best purchases.

Tiene buena construcion , es seguro y muy pratico para la cocina

Ma petite fille de 15 mois ralait énormément en me voyant dans la cuisine et voulais reproduire ce que je faisais. Du coup cette tour me permet de préparer à manger ou faire la vaisselle sans soucis avec elle à mes côtés. Je suis super satisfaite de ce produit et de plus il est de très bonne qualité. Montage facile!!!

SOLIDO, ROBUSTO, non ho trovato nemmeno un difetto! Perfetto per la mia bambina di due anni, ma avrei potuto comprarlo molto prima!!! In commercio ci sono altre varianti come la Learning T. E simili.... che però a mio avviso sono comunque pericolose perché la bambina poteva scivolare ai lati o davanti o dietro con piedino, perché sono aperte e alcune erano ad alto pericolo di ribaltamento! Questa è chiusa su tutti i lati, ha piedi che rendono difficile il ribaltamento (sorvegliate sempre comunque il bambino) e la mia bambina lo adora! di ottimi materiali e ben fatto!!! Lo ricomprerei altre mille volte!

Habe mir den Little Helper aus Verzweiflung zugelegt.Das Problem war, dass meine damals 15 Monate alte Tochter unbedingt beim Kochen mit dabei sein wollte, und sobald ich sie zwischendurch auf den Boden setzte, weil ich gerade beide Hände brauchte, das Geschrei riesengroß war.Seit wir den Little Helper haben ist das vorbei, sie steht sicher in ihrem Turm, sieht alles und kann auch mithelfen. Aber ich kann sie auch ganz schnell vom Arbeitsplatz wegschieben/-ziehen, wenn ich z.b. ein paar Schritte zum Kühlschrank gehen muss und Messer oder ähnliches auf der Arbeitsplatte liegen. Mittlerweile wird schon gemeinsam geschnipselt, gerührt und gebacken.Aufbau gestaltete sich einfach und die Verarbeitung ist gut. Auch nach 1,5 Jahren intensiver Nutzung immer noch keine Mängel festzustellen.Fazit: Klare Kaufempfehlung, ist jeden Cent wert.

まだ4歳ということもあり、これまで、キッチンで椅子や踏み台を横に置いて子供を立たせるということをしたことはありませんでした。どちらかというと危ないからどいていなさい、というのが普通だと思います。しかし、本製品のコンセプトを知り、やる価値があると感じて使い始めることにしました。　説明書には、英国生まれらしく製品のコンセプト（幼児期のキッチンに立たせることに対する良い面への影響等）が文章として長く記載され、おおよそ使用方法と呼べるものは記述が無いに等しいのですが、それもそのはず、書いてしまうと「子供の調理お手伝い台」これで終わってしまいます。実際に使用すると、思いのほか良く出来ており、載せて作業を手伝ってもらうと子供も生き生きとしています。4歳になったばかりで手伝ってもらえることは…ポテトの仕上げ、マヨネーズを和えてもらうことや、タレを入れた納豆を混ぜることをお願いした所、楽しそうに、一生懸命、混ぜ混ぜして手伝ってくれて、大変嬉しくなりました。本製品のデザインは英国、製造国は中国で、リトルヘルパーの規則によるチェック項目リスト（実際にチェックが手書きで入れられています）が封入され、同じく手書きで作業日の記載と、作業責任者の氏名も捺印されるなど点検への心配りがとても感じられ、それは仕上がりの良さにも現れています。良くあるのが、デザインも設計も良いけれど、いざネジ（本製品の場合は六角ボルトとネジ付属ですが便宜上ネジと記します）を廻すと、穴が小さかったり上下左右少しずつ締めても一箇所上手く入らなかったり…それが、この製品では全てのネジが綺麗に、ズレることなく入りました。気持ちがいいですし、とても丁寧で正確な仕事だと関心しました。15kg程ありますので、最初のいくつかのネジ締めは女性だと少し苦労するかも知れません（壁に持たれかからせて締めてしまうと楽です）。また、説明書の日本語説明部分には使用上の注意と共に、2005年の一般製品安全規制に従っているという旨の記載もあり、メーカーの安全に対する意識の高さが伺えました。床に触れる底板の裏には滑り止めが付いており、滑るのを防ぐと同時に床に傷が付くのもふせいでくれます。外側の金属取っ手も使い勝手が良く、綺麗にR加工を施した滑らかで温かい質感の金属で出来ているため、重量があるにも関わらず、抱えやすくて移動させやすいです。踏み板を入れる穴は５箇所あり、即ち５段階切り替えの高さになっている訳ですが、４歳でも一番下の高さで作業させましたので、やはり５歳程度、身長が高いお子さんではもう少し早くまでしか使えない可能性もあり、出来るだけ幼少時からの使用が望ましいと感じました。ちなみに最大重量は30kg、最大身長は85cmとあります。製品はそれなりに場所を取りますが、色とデザインのセンスが良いのであまり邪魔になりません。それと、置いていると新鮮な木の香りがしてくるのが個人的には好きで気に入っています。六角レンチ（アーレンキー）も付属していますので、必要な工具はプラスドライバーのみ、思いのほか簡単に組みあがります。センスとコンセプトが素晴らしく良いので、設置場所の確認さえ取れれば、お子さんの誕生日や、お友達のお子さんへのプレゼント等にも向いていると思います。最後に…製品のパッケージはとても重く、台車などが無いと大人でも運ぶのはしんどいです。間違っても持参せず、贈り主へは持参しないほうが玄関まで配達してもらうことをおすすめします。