Best Car Seat Travel Tray in 2021 – Reviews and Buying Guide

Your little one can drink, eat and play on this car table for toddlers. Start with drinking. This tray has a detachable cup holder big enough to hold a bottle of milk or a sippy cup. The cup holder’s firm base ensures soft cup landings and prevents the risk of spilling. 

Move on to eating. You get a 16-inch wide tray with this travel tray that is big enough to hold multiple snacks, chocolate bars, and crayons. Also on offer are two mesh storage pockets. The one at its left is bigger and can thus hold bags of chips. The other one can secure packets of candies.

Then comes playing. It comes with a detachable viewing stand that will free your little one from the trouble of steadying their IPad or tablet in their lap for hours. And the fact that it has three walls means your child’s toys won’t fall off this tray while she’s busy in merrymaking. 

This travel tray for car seats is available in black, blue, and grey colors. Kids Travel Tray has decorated all three with different patterns to make sure they befriend kids with varying tastes. That is to say that one kid who may like the blue tray might not like the black one. Here’s why that’s a good thing.  

The blue color model has a starry design that would attract children who may want to become astronauts. That isn’t the case with the grey- or the black-colored trays. The former is filled with fun outdoor activities and the latter has cartoons your little one might be fond of seeing on their tablet.

Space for which is provided on the backside of this tray. On the right side of this tray are separate holders for stationery and drink/bottle. And on its left side is an open pocket divided into two with an inner barrier to help your kid organize her stuff. Also there is a zippered mesh pocket.

The Karimba Kids Travel Tray offers three options at the price of one. You can either use it in the form shown on its package – which is the form of a car seat tray that has all the walls, cup holders, and stationery pockets that you have come to expect from one.

Or you can convert it into a flat travel tray. In which case you’d have to flatten its detachable walls and raze the collapsible storage pockets to the ground. The final result will be a massive, flat play area that will keep your child engaged during a long road trip.

The final option includes turning this travel tray into a tote. Exercising it is a bit complicated and involves steps that are too long to be described in this review. You can find them in this product’s instruction manual if your little one wants a carry bag like her mommy. 

Everything about this kids’ travel tray tells us it could become your child’s best friend. It has stationery pockets at its sides to hold all those pens and pencils which your little one seems to be misplacing all the time. A dry erase board facing your child will let them hone their creative skills.

It also has a detachable tablet holder to help your little one watch cartoons without her parents raising the issue that they’re sitting too close to the screen. That’s because the tablet holder’s position – at the back of the tray – will put quite some distance between the tablet and your child’s eyes.

Kids who like throwing tantrums would find it hard throwing one with this tray. Mainly because it offers separate pockets for them to store their crayons, candies, chocolate bars and drinks bottle. But also because its pockets are all transparent to assure your child that her valuables are safe.

Every good thing about this car seat travel tray stems from its weight. That shouldn’t be surprising as it is one of those few travel trays that weigh north of 1 kilogram. But not without reason. Yookie has justified this model’s extra weight by equipping it with sturdy walls and a sturdier base.

Let us look at both one by one. The walls’ sturdiness allows them to hold the weight of a 10.5-inch tablet holder and multiple storage mesh pockets. Also connected to the walls is a strap using which you can convert this travel tray into a backpack. 

That isn’t to say that the flat base won’t share any burden. Apart from bearing the load of whatever stuff your child would pile on top of it, the double-layered base can carry the burden of a standard size sippy cup, an iPad or a mini-tablet, and multiple stationery items.

The Modfamily Travel Tray is one of the most inexpensive in this review. But it hasn’t cut any corners to keep its asking price low. You can guess that by looking at this model’s base. Supported by foam and plastic inserts, it’s as sturdy as that of care seats costing twice as much.

It also has reinforced edges on all four sides, though you can remove the one facing your child by detaching the buttons on both its corners. Their presence helps keep crayons, snacks and games on the tray’s floor and prevents them from falling onto the car’s footrest.

You might find it surprising to note that this tray won’t sit on your child’s lap. All four of its sides go all the way to the bottom and help steady it on the seat. This makes this tray a must-have for fussy toddlers who have trouble staying still for any period of time. 

This car seat tray has everything to be a great addition to a family journey. It has raised edges to keep your vehicle’s interior mess-free and has multiple pockets for easy storage. They include two mesh pockets on its left side, one at the tray’s floor on the right and another at the front.

Also on offer is a dedicated iPad holder and a carrying strap. The former will keep your child entertained on those long trips where you cannot afford to take many mid-way stops. The lug strap, together with the strap that fastens around your little one’s waist, will make carrying it a cinch.

EcoZen has further sweetened the deal by making this model available in two colors. It has also backed it with a 100% money-back guarantee and a lifetime warranty. You can quickly return this product and get your money back if you notice any manufacturing defects.

This kids’ travel tray offers multiple features to belittle its meager asking price. It has a spill-proof base that won’t absorb a drop of liquid your child might spill on it. This will prevent the base from swelling and help you clear it with one swipe of a dry cloth.

Travel trays you saw above used most of their floor space for providing storage options. This one only has an iPad holder tugged to the backside of its base, with the rest of its floor free for your child to eat, play or create. However, that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t provided any mesh pockets

There are two of them on the right side of this tray. The first is dedicated to pens and pencils and the second can hold oversized items. Another two mesh pockets are on the left side to fit your child’s sippy bottle/drink and eatables, respectively.  

Here is one of those car seat trays that double as a backpack. And not only because your child can fold it around before carrying it with them. It mimics the function of a backpack by providing the same number of storage options too. Here’s how.

Travel Tykes has dedicated both this car tray’s sides – as well as the sides of its floor – to pockets. The ones hanging down from the right side are slightly bigger and can thus hold stuffed animals. Those on the right side are meant for stationery items, i.e., pens, pencils, and notebooks.

We haven’t yet talked about the pockets on its floor. The ones nearest to your child can hold smaller items like rubbers, sharpeners, to name a few. One which is at the corner doubles as a cup/feeder holder. And you don’t need us telling that big pocket at the back is meant for an iPad. 

The Cerizona Portable Kids Travel Tray is neither made of plastic nor nylon, the two most popular kids travel tray materials. Instead, its manufacturer has opted for 600D polyester. Here’s why that is an excellent decision. 

In addition to making its pad waterproof – which plastic and nylon do too – the use of polyester has also made it stain-resistant – which plastic and nylon pads fail to do. That’s why you can clean the most stubborn of spills off the tray’s base with a swipe.

Cerizona has equipped this tray with flexible side pocket flaps, an adjustable cup holder, and zippered storage compartments at its base. It has also provided it with detachable edges that are easy to install and take apart and has further sweetened the deal with a lifetime warranty on this product.