Klean Kanteen makes these adorable stainless steel sippy cups in a variety of colors that will differentiate your child’s sippy cup from the others in the room. Often, just having a stainless steel sippy cup means you can easily find your child’s at a playgroup or at school. They contain no BPAs and have a wide mouth so you can fit ice cubes into your child’s drink on a hot day. The other good thing about the wide mouth is that it makes this sippy cup super easy to clear. You can see down inside to make sure no milk has become gunky at the bottom.

If you’re looking for a water bottle to get someone as a gift or to get for yourself, you might enjoy looking at the beautiful “lifestyle” SIGGs. These are works of art. I don’t know where they find their graphic designers, but SIGG sure gets some good ones.

If that does not float your boat, then SIGG also offers what they call “traveler bottles” which offer a more conservative look with solid colors.

Unlike many products for children, this bottle can be used for a long time. Add the sippy cup adaptor and use it with a toddler. Remove the adaptor and it works for children on up to adults.

As you can see in the photo, the bottom of the “Kanteen” is wide, yet the neck is narrow enough to be gripped by small hands. At 12 oz, it holds enough water or milk for a longish outing. Since a sippy cup adaptor (made of non-leaching #5 polypropylene) is available, it’s easy to modify this bottle for little ones not yet ready to drink without a little help. =)

The water does not absorb the taste of the plastic as is the case with so many of the plastic sippy cups. I read somewhere that older children will want to drink juice instead of water, because the juice hides the poor taste that the plastic adds to the water. With stainless steel, no such odd tastes happen.

Another plus is that the neck of this bottle is big enough for ice cubes!

One tiny drawback — isn’t there always one? — is that the sippy cup will dent if dropped. However, we’ve used this cup day and day out for a month and it’s still dent-free.

If you have an older child, this version of the Klean Kanteen might be up their alley, and it fits into most lunch boxes. You can also get it with a Built in NY sleeve that insulates the botttle.

I got myself the 27-oz Klean Kanteen because it fits perfectly into my Built NY lunch bag.

My daughter loves her “special” bottle, and we received many positive comments on it when we went to playgroups. Another nice feature is that you always know which sippy cup is your child’s when 1) you have a SIGG and 2) you have such a unique design on your SIGG.

I liked my daughter’s bottle so much that I went and bought one for myself. I receive a lot of positive comments on the bottle’s beauty, and I’m happy about not using those disposable water bottles that often do not get recycled. For one, Dasani recently issued a press release that their water comes from municipal sources. In other words, it’s just tap water anyway. I can filter my water in my Brita (or not) and save myself money, save oil and reduce waste.

One little drawback is that these can dent. That is not a big deal to me when I think of how beautiful my SIGG is, how much oil I’ll save over a lifetime from not having water shipped to me from France, and how much landfill space I’ll save. It’s a good deal all around, and it pays for itself after about 12- 15 or so uses.

You can see the one I bought for myself to the right. I think it’s a work of art! So many people tell me how beautiful it is. When I saw someone else with the same design, I asked her if people are always saying how gorgeous it is. She laughed, pointed to the women next to her and said, “she just said that.” They’ve got SIGG bottles at Reusable Bags if you want to check them out.

PepsiCo Inc. will spell out that its Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water, a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry.

That makes getting a bottle of your own a no brainer!

You can carry your own water in a SIGG or Kleen Kanteen and save yourself money in the process.