Folding High Chairs

A high chair takes up a surprising amount of room for something used three times a day. In a small kitchen or an apartment, it becomes the thing everyone edges around. A folding high chair gives you the same seat at mealtimes and hands the floor space back the moment lunch is finished.

Who a Foldable Highchair Suits

Not every home has a corner to spare. Apartments, terraces and open-plan living rooms where the dining table doubles as a desk all struggle with a fixed high chair, and so do families who want the room back when guests arrive. 

Folding models also suit grandparents who need a seat for visits without giving up permanent space, and anyone who takes the chair to a holiday house over summer. If your kitchen is roomy and the chair stays put, a standard high chair may serve you better. The moment you find yourself moving it more than once a day, folding starts to make sense.

What to Look for Before You Buy

The fold itself is the first thing to test. A chair you can collapse one-handed while holding a toddler is worth far more than one needing two hands and a knee. Check whether it stands up on its own once folded, because a collapsible high chair that has to lean against a wall tends to slide down it. 

Look at the folded depth rather than the height, since that is what decides if it fits behind a door or beside the fridge. Then there is the everyday side of things. A removable tray that goes in the dishwasher saves you scrubbing, a seat with few seams and crevices saves you digging out dried food, and a five-point harness keeps a wriggling toddler where you left them. Adjustable height helps the chair pull up to the family table as your child grows.

Making Mealtimes Easier

Starting solids is messy, and the chair carries most of it. Wipeable surfaces and a tray with a decent lip contain the worst of the fallout, and a footrest matters more than parents expect, since a child with somewhere to plant their feet sits more steadily and stays at the table longer. 

Bringing the chair up to table height rather than parking it off to the side also changes how meals feel. Your child watches everyone else eat, joins the conversation, and picks up habits by copying, which does more for fussy eating than any amount of encouragement from across the room.

The Brand We Carry

Folding high chairs are a narrow category, and we currently stock one brand in it. Mamas & Papas has been making nursery furniture since the 1980s and brings a compact, slim-folding approach to mealtime seating, with the wipe-clean surfaces and adjustable positions parents ask about most. If you want a wider choice of makers, our full high chair range carries considerably more.

Sorting Out the Rest of Mealtimes

The chair is the beginning. Something has to catch what misses the mouth, the plates have to survive being thrown, and eventually you will need a seat that travels to the grandparents. Browse our full range of baby feeding, or start with the categories below: 

• High Chairs
• High Chair Accessories
• Portable High Chairs
• Feeding Bibs
• Tableware
• Drink Bottles & Cups
• Food Storage & Lunchboxes
• Feeding Bundles

Every order is delivered Australia-wide, and you are welcome to try the chairs in person at ourAlexandria orMiranda stores.