water bottles?

[snbauser]

http://www.orientaltrading.com/color-your-own-cups-with-lids-and-straws-a2-48_3329.fltr?Ntt=straw%20cups

I use these although I take off the outer plastic and the coloring part. That leaves a solid color and I use a label maker to put their names on them.

[daycare]

http://www.orientaltrading.com/color...t=straw%20cups

I use these although I take off the outer plastic and the coloring part. That leaves a solid color and I use a label maker to put their names on them.

how do you keep those clean? I find that mold grows up in the straws and i have to toss them out...

[Blackcat31]

how do you keep those clean? I find that mold grows up in the straws and i have to toss them out...

How long are you leaving liquid in them?

I've always used cups with flexible straws like that (for my own personal water cup) and have never had one grow mold before.
Mine gets rinsed out at the end of the day and put in the dishwasher for a good wash.

[BabyMonkeys]

I just put the entire thing in one of my thirty one totes.

I misread that and thought you said you took 31 kids to the park. I was thinking you were either crazy or amazing! ::

[Febby]

The only issue I've ever seen with the flexible straws is kids chewing through them. One of my old centers used them and we never had issues with mold growing in them. They got emptied and washed/sanitized at the end of every day (massive pain when there's ~70 cups/straws). That center eventually had parents provide water bottles after too many kids chewed through too many straws, which then turned into a headache of matching lids to bottles, but that was for ~70 water bottles. I doubt it would be too bad for a home daycare.

[mommiebookworm]

I misread that and thought you said you took 31 kids to the park. I was thinking you were either crazy or amazing! ::

Hahahaha! I would be crazy with that many kids I think!!
ROFL

[Jujube835]

IKEA $0.88 water bottles! They're super thin and PERFECT! I'm obsessed. I can stack all 8 of them in 2 hands, if needed. But most of the time I just throw them in a little bucket and take them all out. There's a bunch of colors and each of my kids have an assigned color