We were pleased that our son enjoyed playing with his wooden train set. However, leaving the trains set up on the floor made it difficult to clean and keep the pieces contained in one area. We needed to get the train set up off the floor. Unfortunately none of the play tables available were large enough to set up all the accessories we had for the train set. I asked my husband if he could build a larger table. He was concerned that a bigger table would be difficult to move or store away when we needed the space in our living room for entertaining. Therefore he made a larger table that could fold up such that I could easily fold it up and slide it under the bed when we needed the space. We were also able to easily take the table with us when we visited grandma's house.

Friends and relatives quickly became intrigued with the table once they saw how easily it folded up. They were soon asking Steve if he could make tables for them, and Folding Play was born. We then started advertising in local children's magazines and received a great response. This past February Folding Play was invited to showcase the playtables at the 2001 International Toy Fair in New York City.