27/03/2021
What is a Montessori Learning Tower?
The learning tower is a piece of furniture that allows your child to stand higher, so they can safely reach a kitchen counter, sink, or climb to see a dinner table.
Montessori learning tower, also called a kitchen helper, might be one of the best practical items to have around the house when you’re surrounded by a toddler’s growing interest in, well, everything around the house.
From the moment they can stand up, toddlers are so eager to experience the world around them with all their 5 senses. It’s only a matter of how you organize yourself and your home to make that happen for them. This is when a Montessori kitchen helper comes in handy. Whether you’re raising your sweetheart according to Montessori education or not, we highly recommend this item.
Benefits of Montessori Learning Tower!
1. Learning Tower is Safer
While a stool or chair can also bring the child up to a higher spot, toddlers can easily fall from them. Our little helper tower has been built with this specific feature in mind in order to provide safety. It’s steady and it has a wider base, with 4 legs, that offers good stability.
This is the only design we offer at the moment, considering this is the best we came out with 😊
So it’s one design, carefully designed for your toddler safety comfort zone with a good overview of your toddler to the kitchen appliances. What You can choose from is different kind of materials and colors.
2. The Kitchen Helper Teaches Independence
The learning tower is an item greatly recommended by the Montessori method of education because it supports the child’s instinct to do things independently.
In addition to that and most importantly, the toddler benefits from individual playtime, even if they are right next to you. Using the little helper tower gives your toddler the chance to explore food, personal hygiene items, or even toys in their rhythm, without any “be careful” interruptions from parents. The fact that toddlers learn that they can do these things by themselves, builds in them great confidence and self-esteem. And at the same time, both small and large motor skills develop.
3. You Spend More Quality Time Together
We mentioned before that toddlers get so interested in what we’re doing around the house that they can drop everything and run to us when they see you’re peeling a potato.
You still need to make dinner and it’s a bit hard to do that while you’re holding an 18 months almost-not-a-baby-anymore in your arms. Time spent in the kitchen is actually a great opportunity for connection. While being in the tower, the toddler can safely reach the kitchen sink and you can ask them to wash the potatoes.
Or even hand them an age-appropriate peeler so they could try and peel the potatoes themselves. Or chop some veggies. And while you prep some other dinner food items, they can season the potatoes with salt and pepper. It’s a win-win situation, dinner is ready and you’ve spent some quality, fun time with your child.
4. The Kitchen Helper Creates an Opportunity for Exposure to New Foods
Having your child around in the little helper tower while you’re cooking could bring amazing benefits concerning their appetite and willingness to try new foods.
The fact that a toddler gets to explore the veggies on their terms, might get them to be more open to trying them later at dinner. Repeated exposure and sensory learning are some of the best strategies known to increase the intake of unfamiliar food items. It’s a protective instinct to be careful with new foods.
So the more your toddler gets the chance to see, touch, and explore the ingredients you’re using for dinner, the better chances are they’ll accept what is on their plate...
5. Use the Learning Tower for many Activities
Another place to effectively use the Learning Tower, besides the favorite kitchen, is the toilet. For greater independency in acquiring good hygiene habits and learn from your activities next to you.
What age is it appropriate for?
By offering a safe, stable, and yet adjustable platform, the Learning Tower is intended to help get children ages 18 months to 6 years old right up in the action. The Learning Tower has 2 wide climbing steps (ladder like) in one of the sides to help your child go up and down safely (as able).
