Sippy Cup Organization

The cups are pretty easy to stack together.

The lids can be tricky. I stack if I can, but sometimes that doesn't work as well as I'd like.

I typically get wipes by the case from Sam's or from Target, so I have a few extra empty dispenser boxes. I took the tops off of a few, ran them through the dishwasher to clean, and then use them to store the lids in. I also have one that I for "bottle supplies" (nipples, rings, etc.), another one for "medicine droppers", another one for nuks. (Some of them I do use the lids for - helps in stacking them up - then just write with a marker what's in each one.)

Depending on how many you have depends on how you store them. I used to have the plastic cups with the spill type lids when my daughter was little and the lids stacked wonderfully. But when my boys came to the age of sippy cups they had the spill-proof kind that are wonderful but take up a lot of room. I would keep one for each of them for during the day that they could keep with them that had water in it, and one for each at meal times for when theirs magically disappered. Any other extra ones I would store with lids on in a square or retangular container and store that on a shelf that had extra space but out of the way. When I was babysitting and either parents would bring one for me to keep at my house for their child or I always had extra ones that I would write names on for that day; I would store them and sometimes I had A LOT of them, in a plastic tub that I got at Dollar General that also had a lid. That way when they were not it use in the evenings or on weekends the cups were not taking up all my cupboard space and they were out of my way and kept clean until the next time. Hope this helps.

I only have 1 brand of sippy cups and 1 brand of straw cups so it's easy to mix 'n match lids/valves/straws, etc. (playtex for both sippy cups and straw cups). We've had them in our kitchen for 7 years now so I've had awhile to come up with a system. :-)

Don't get too many of them. I used to have a ton but things got much better once I started to toss the ones we rarely/never used. We have 1 kid using sippy cups and she sometimes uses straw cups, plus a child who uses straw cups. We have 6 straw cups and 6 sippy cups right now and that seems to be plenty. We tend to run the dishwasher at least once a day so we've never run out of clean ones.

I just put the valves/straws/lids/cups together and stand them on their own shelf in a kitchen cabinet somewhat near the other glasses/cups. Then when we want one, we don't have to fumble assembling. We just unscrew the lid, put whatever inside and put it back on.

I keep all the valves in a basket in the dishwasher. As soon as they are clean, I dry them and always put the cups back together. It takes a few seconds longer but I am never searching for a valve or lid. Also, now that my child is older, I try not to buy the sippy cups with valves as that is one less part you have to worry about. When she was younger, she couldn't drink out the cups without valves very well but now she has no problem.

I put valve in the cup and the lid on top without screwing it on tight.

Once they are washed and dried, I simply put the lids back on them and put them in the cabinet until needed again.

We don't have a whole lot of sippy cups, and my son's starting to use regular cups now, but I have a little bit of an organization system for ours. I bought a little basket made by Munchkin from Target that fits in the top rack of the dishwasher. I think it's really made for bottle nipples, but I use it for the sippy cups as well as my son's forks and spoons and other small dish items. It has two compartments. The top compartment can hold the inserts from the sippy cups' lids, and the bottom compartment can hold the lids. The cups themselves just sit somewhere in the top rack of the dishwasher. When they're washed, I pull out the cups, inserts, and lids. I drop the right insert into the correct cup, screw on the correct lid, and store them right side-up in an upper cabinet. That means I have to unscrew the lid and pop in the insert every time I use a new sippy, but I haven't lost anything this way, so far. Hope that helps!

Hi,

I would put the valves in the caps. In the cabinet I put a spinning spice rack. Put the lids on top and cups on the bottom. This stopped the searching, and if they were still a little damp from washing the parts could dry separately. Good luck finding what works for you.

D.

In addition to what K. T just mentioned, I didn't see the need to have too many on hand.

I LOVE the Take n Toss cups for this exact reason! You can stack them! I just stack all the cups and all the lids together and they take up very little room. I do have a few 'real' sippy cups that are nicer (only about 3 or 4 though) and I just store those with the lids on in the cabinet.

I have a basket in one of my lower cabinets . . . all cups and lids get thrown in there after washing (if they're still damp, they can dry there and won't mold/mildew!). The valves are stored in a small tupperware type container without the lid in an upper cabinet (my boys tended to chew on them if they could get them from the lower cabinet). A bonus to the basket in a lower cabinet - all my boys have loved playing with them when they were young enough to be crawling at my feet while I cooked - - and it taught them great matching skills (they picked up my particularness early on, always making sure the right lid was with the right cup).