How to clean your sippy cup
Somewhere in your childrens' life, they will depend on a sippy cup. The changeover from a bottle to a sippy can happen anytime from about eleven months on up. Your child will use a sippy cup until she is ready to move onto an adult cup. This is a great time of development in your child’s life. As with many items that your toddler uses on a daily basis, it is crucial to keep a sippy cup clean. As babies grow, their messes tend to get bigger. This is a basic how to clean a sippy cup. The steps in this article are concentrated on how to clean the sippy cup when you do not have a dishwasher available to you.
Gather all of your toddler’s sippy cups from around the house. It is good to have a set number of sippy cups that you keep for your child. This is important so that one sippy cup doesn't go missing for any length of time. Your toddler likely has a good throwing arm these days. Pair that with the fact that she is always on the run and before long her sippy cups will find their way into places you wouldn’t even guess.
Fill your kitchen sink with hot water and dish soap. You want to use the warmest water that you can get out of your faucet. The hot water will help to kill microbes and bacteria that accumulate on your toddler’s sippy cups.
Open up each sippy cup and discharge out any unexpended juice or milk that may be in it. Remove the plastic valve that prevents the milk from spilling out of the spout of the sippy cup. Put all of the sippy cup parts in the sink of hot water. Allow the sippy cups to soak for about 5 minutes. This will loosen any liquid that may have set on the sippy cups.
The best instrument to use to clean a sippy cup is a bottle brush. The bottle brush is designed in just the right size to fit down into the sippy cup to clean it out. Place the bigger part of the bottle brush down into the sippy cup and rub it around the sides of the sippy cup. Do this a couple of times to clean the inner parts of the sippy cup. Use the nipple brush that is attached to the bottle brush to clean the lid of the sippy cup and the plastic valve of the cup. This brush will allow you to get down into the spout of the sippy cup to take all of the dirt out of it.
Leave all the parts of the sippy cup to dry completely. Put your toddler’s sippy cups back together and of course be ready for the next round that will come very soon!
