10 Best Toddler Cups UK 2024 | Nuby, Tommee Tippee and More

This hugely popular cup from Munchkin has a spoutless and valve-free design, handles for easy gripping, and a 360° drinking edge that totally eliminates spills. The pressure-sensitive lid is easy to wash with no extra valves and parts to clean, and it automatically seals when your child stops drinking. 

Babies and toddlers seem to take to it almost immediately, with the lid letting out only a light stream of liquid. It also comes with a very comprehensive instruction booklet on how best to care for it, and more importantly, keep it clean. This cup is virtually faultless and is available for a very reasonable price, which is why it's our number one pick! 

The Doidy Cup has been around since the 1950s, and is an essential weaning aid to teach babies and toddlers natural free-flow drinking without the need for a teat/spout. It has been specifically fashioned to make the transition to open cups as easy as possible, and the two-handled design features a unique slant enabling infants to see the liquid and avoid spills.

Once your baby gets the hang of holding the handles and supporting the weight of the cup, they'll be more than happy to drink from it, totally negating the need for a transition cup. The only thing keeping this cup from top spot is that it isn't leakproof, but this is a great value and highly-recommended product nonetheless. 

Despite being called a cup, this product from Tommee Tippee is more like a bottle, as it has no handles and a spout to drink from. It has a removable easy-to-clean valve to allow your little one to develop grown-up drinking skills straight away, and the spout is soft and gentle on young teeth and gums.

These cups are really simple for your toddler to drink from, making the transition to open-cup drinking so much simpler using the 360° pressure sensitive lid. The clever spill-proof seal is really hygienic and doesn't involve a valve, making it ideal for toddlers at all stages. The cover lid provided also makes the cup fully watertight, so you can store it in a bag without it leaking everywhere. 

We've marked these cups down slightly in our listing owing to the fact that they can be tricky to clean, especially in between the grooves of the screw lid. This isn't ideal as this is the perfect place for germs and bacteria to grow so extra time will be needed to ensure it is totally clean between uses.

This cup boasts an ultra-flexible silicone spout that promises to be gentle on baby's teeth and gums. The handles are also soft and easy to hold, which is great for preparing your toddler for drinking from a regular cup when the time comes. 

The cup is compatible with latch teats, so if your little one finds using this cup tricky at first, the spout can be switched out for a teat to help them get used to it. The main drawback with this cup is that it can't be sterilised so under NHS guidelines isn't suitable for babies under 6 months.

TUM TUM are based in Buxton, Derbyshire and all their products are designed and made in the UK. This koala design is particularly adorable with its little head and ears! The cup has a weighted straw that follows the liquid as the cup is tipped up, and it doesn't contain any sort of valve so there's no need for your toddler to suck hard to drink.

The brand recommend only cleaning this cup by hand and have very detailed instructions on how to do so, so this is to be taken into account if you don't have the time to hand wash it after use. In addition, if you don't follow the cleaning instructions properly it can cause a pressure bubble in the straw which can lead to leakages. 

The fact that you're able to remove the valve from the spout of this cup is really great, so that you can add the spill-proof valve back in when your baby's sipping action is established. Another very useful feature is that the pictured version has glow-in-the-dark handles, so you can easily spot it if you're moving it from your toddler's room in low light. 

The design of this cup has a lot of different smaller pieces to fit together which if not done totally correctly leads to leakages. Potentially quite annoying if you're trying to put it together quickly! Again the inclusion of a soft spout could work against it, ending up not faring so well against chewing toddler teeth.

The spout on this cup has the same feel as a baby bottle teat, which makes transitioning away from a baby bottle really simple and stress free. Its spout is also made of soft silicone and the body of the cup has a rippled shape to make it easy for your baby to hold on to it.

One area to bear in mind with this cup is that the soft spouts do have a tendency to degrade over time, and Avent don't currently make replacements – so if this occurred the whole cup would need to be replaced. One other minor flaw is that there aren't any measurements on the side which can make it trickier to track how much your toddler is drinking.

The two-handled design of this cup makes it really easy for your baby to get to grips with holding a cup rather than a baby bottle, and the fact that the cup can be recycled once your child grows out of it is a really great selling point. 

Mums say how this cup has really helped them transition their baby away from a baby bottle, and how even the fussiest of babies took to it with no issues. However, there are a few instances of the nipple collapsing in on itself, and also the shape of the handles makes them prone to breaking if dropped frequently.

This bottle from Munchkin is promoted as being leakproof and also suitable for chewers. The lid has a "click-and-lock" feature meaning that you can hear the click when the lid is locked in place. Lots of mums say how their normally-fussy toddler is happy to drink from this bottle, and how on the whole it is indeed fairly leakproof.

The main flaw with this bottle is that the soft spout – meant to discourage chewing – is seemingly irresistible to known bottle chompers, and mums of such toddlers report that they were able to chew through the spout causing the bottle to leak. Something to bear in mind if your child likes to chew!