Forget the traditional sippy cup consisting of a cup and a matching top with a sippy spout.
In recent years, a number of parent innovators have rethought the traditional sippy cup design, coming out with stand-alone sippy tops that actually work on many regular cups.
In other words, instead of buying all new cups for your little one, you can just buy some of these special tops, which tend to run $5 to $7, and use them on cups you already have. Opting for this new generation of sippies – what I’m calling Sippy Cups 2.0 – is today’s hint.
Among the new designs, in May, Silikids started selling the dishwasher-safe “Siliskin Top,” a roughly $5 silicone top that stretches over and covers the top of an average, standard-sized cup. Silikids, a company offering silicone and glass tableware for kids, is giving away $100 worth of its products to one lucky reader – details below.
Elsewhere, Double Double offers a new line of dishwasher-safe SipSnap silicone lids designed to cover regular cups and transform the cups into traditional sippy spout and straw cups, depending on the SipSnap lid model (you can preorder a set of three SipSnap lids for $21 at the Double Double site; shipment is expected in early September).
In addition to enabling parents to transform cups they have at home into sippies, tops such as these can also help out parents eating out with young children. Instead of having to bring an actual sippy cup with them, parents could instead just carry one of these tops in their diaper bag and have it ready to attach to a restaurant cup. The new tops are also designed to be hard for little kids to take on and off, helping to curtail spills.
To be sure, the new top designs won’t necessarily work with every cup design out there. Silikids, for instance, says its Siliskin Tops will work with most standard, straight-sided glass, plastic or metal cups with a diameter of 2 to 2.5 inches (and they also work with Siliskin glass and sippy cups). Meanwhile, the SipSnap lids will work on any cup that doesn’t have handles, as weeSpring’s weeLove blog noted back in April.
Yet despite these limitations, parents seem very excited about this new generation of sippies. Silikids’ first run of the Siliskin Tops has already sold out. At the same time, as NPR pointed out last month, Double Double raised four times its goal amount in a recent SipSnap kickstarter campaign.
But what if you already have a drawer or cabinet full of sippy cup parts? Well, these new designs might make good baby gifts for new parents you know. It’s also worth noting that there are similar products on the market designed to transform water bottles into sippies of sorts, such as the Flipple (the Simple Sippy version) and the Green Sprouts Toddler Water Bottle Cap adapter.
What’s your family’s favorite sippy cup and why? What are your tips for saving money on sippies? What do you think of these new sippy lids? Share your thoughts –and enter to win your choice of $100 worth of Silikids products – below.
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The click lock munckin sippys are the best for us right now because they don’t leak (even when dumped upside down and shaken by my toddler lol)! Invest in good sippys otherwise you will go through a lot of cheap ones! We would love to try these! They are awesome :))
Right now our favorite for my 5 year old is by Contigo, my 2 year old has a Kid Basix Safe Sippy that we love too! I think these Sili Kids products sound genius!!
I am so excited about these! I have never heard of such a thing but it makes so much sense!! I am so sick of all the different cups, lids and mechanics of our cups as well as the leaking and parts that are difficult to clean. All over this!!
My favorite are the Munchkin Click Lock cups, but I have a hate-hate relationship with sippy cups since they tend to leak, be chewed through by my son or have too many or difficult to clean parts, so this product is genius to me!
We have the no-spill sippy cup from Nuk and I love it because it really doesn’t spill. I think these sippy cup lids are awesome. Such a genius idea!
We have been using the Platex twist and click cups since our two-year-old son was 7-months. He started with the straw cups, which he drank well from right away. Now we also have a spout cup and a coolster, which are also great. These cups are totally leak-proof and virtually indestructible, standing up to being chewed on and thrown repeatedly onto the sidewalk. Even though we love playtex, my son will be ready to move on to a bigger boy cup soon, and these new products definitely intrigue me. 1) I can see how they would be a great transitional product for a child who is almost ready for a regular cup, but still prone to spills. 2) You don’t have all those cups to buy and then throw away. Just the lids, which I imagine is cheaper, and is certainly better for the environment. 3) Silicone is a much safer choice than plastic. Even though most sippy cups these days are BPA free, other potentially harmful substances still leach into the liquid you are drinking from the plastic.
We don’t use sippy cups yet. My son is just 6 months old!
My boys loved the Munchkin sippy cups the best.
Wish they had this when my kids were little!
We buy extra sippy cups just in case we lose one or leave it somewhere.
No more sippy cups for me. My kids are all grown up.
I cant get over how things have changed since I had children. Now that I am a grandmother I enjoy learning about all the gadgets and niffy little things available …Unbelievable !!:)
The Simple Sippy Spouts.
We have been using Nuby cups! I love all the new design options in this post.
Thank so much for sharing this great giveaway with our readers on InspiringSavings.com
I love love love this idea! There is no one particular cup we use, I have had 9 kids in the past decade so we really have tried them all. Right now my son Ezra (14 months) is using munchkin cup and also a couple playtex cups.
Don’t use Sippies~ yet. Would love to give this a try. I plan on starting soon. Love the design of the New Sippy~ Lids. Thanks for the information, really enjoyed.
We don’t have any favorite cups yet, just got off the bottle! But a lot of great comments on here so now I have a place to start as to what to look for!
right now we use the ones from tupperware. they arent my fav since they are plastic so Id love to try a glass kind. we also use a stainless one from Ecovessel that i like. im all for getting nicer ones like these from silikids so more than one child can use them. these are great and I wouldnt have to worry about any toxins with these
We like the Swig Sippy Cup Spout 🙂
I love anything that doesn’t leak! Right now our favorites are Camelbak kid sized bottles. They have fun designs on them too
Oh as for our favorite sippy…..just one that does not leak! 🙂 Saving money on sippy cups is hard….but we just watch for sales! I really love these as we can use some of our own cups too and put them on! Although I really love their glasswear!
I love the idea of these sippy lids. So tired of missing parts. Right now use mostly munchkin cups.
My kids love reusable water bottles with soft straws. They both tend to bite the straws when they’re not paying attention, and I like having a straw that won’t disintegrate!
My favorite is an off brand sip cup we have. Its no spill and easyto clean.
We use munchkin cups right now.
We are still looking for a favorite sippy cup. It is so hard to find… I would love to a sippy lid like this. I hate all the parts and pieces to sippy cups. I think these are great b.c any cup can a be a sippy!
My current favorite kids cup is the ZoLi straw cup but these look awesome! I hate cups with valves and lots of parts. My kids don’t carry their cups around the house so I don’t need them to be leak proof, I’d much rather they just be simple and easy to clean!
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