
The bottle that comes home empty — because they actually drank it.
Most kids' bottles lose the fight to a lunchbox. This one is a giant crayon in vacuum-insulated stainless steel: cold water at two o'clock, a cap they can open one-handed, and a colour they can spot in a pile of thirty identical backpacks.
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Cold at the last bell
Double-wall vacuum insulation. Fill it with ice in the morning and there's still ice at pick-up.
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One moving part
The crayon-tip chug cap flips open with a thumb. Nothing small to lose, nothing fiddly to reassemble.
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Quiet on the desk
A protective silicone base softens the landing, stops it skating off a table and takes the clang out of setting it down.
A crayon on the outside. Serious hardware on the inside.
The shape is the joke. The build isn't — this is CamelBak's insulation and cap engineering scaled down to 16 oz and handed to someone who will drop it on concrete.
Double-wall vacuum insulation
Two steel walls with nothing between them. Ice survives the school day, and the outside never sweats through a backpack lining.
Crayon-tip chug cap
A wide opening for real gulps between lessons, not a slow trickle through a straw — and it opens one-handed.
Protective silicone base
The part that saves the table. It absorbs the drop, grips the desk and stops the bottle announcing itself in a quiet classroom.
BPA-free stainless steel
Steel holds no flavour and no smell. Yesterday's juice doesn't haunt today's water, and there's no plastic taste to argue about.
A bottle kids actually want to carry
One bottle. Then no more bottles for a very long time.
The plastic one cracks in November. The one with the straw grows something in the lid. This is steel, a cap and a base — and a colour that still looks new in June.
The size that gets carried
16 oz is big enough for a full morning and small enough that a six-year-old will pick it up. Fits backpack side pockets and standard cup holders.
Impossible to mix up
Cherry Red, straight out of the Crayola box. On a cloakroom shelf of identical bottles, theirs is the one they find from across the room.
The end of single-use
One bottle in the bag every morning instead of a plastic one bought and binned. The maths gets good somewhere around week three.
Not just for school
Football practice, the car, swimming, holidays, the sofa on a sick day. It ends up being the bottle everyone in the house reaches for.
Your questions, answered straight
Will it fit a backpack pocket and a cup holder?
Yes. At 16 oz this is the everyday kids' size — slim enough for the side pocket of a school backpack and for a standard car cup holder. Good for school-age children through to big kids; if you need more capacity for sport, look at the 25 oz version.
How long does it actually stay cold?
The double-wall vacuum insulation keeps drinks cold for hours — fill it with ice water in the morning and there's still ice at pick-up. The same construction means the outside stays dry, so nothing else in the bag gets damp.
Is it spill-proof in a bag?
The chug cap is spill-resistant — it closes firmly and is built for quick sips without mess. As with any chug-style lid, pack it upright when it's full. For a younger child who tips everything, the flip-straw model with the bite valve is the safer bet.
What is it made of?
Vacuum-insulated stainless steel, BPA-free, with a silicone base. Steel doesn't hold flavours or odours the way plastic does — so squash on Monday doesn't turn up in the water on Tuesday.
How do I clean it?
The mouth is wide enough for a bottle brush and for ice cubes, so it rinses out properly instead of trapping residue in a narrow neck. Wash the cap separately and let both dry fully before the next fill.
What if it isn't right for us?
Then you get your money back. Every order is covered by our 30-day returns policy — get in touch and we'll sort it out. No hoops, no chasing.
30-day returns
Try it for a full term of mornings
If it doesn't earn its place in the backpack, send it back within 30 days and we'll refund you. Here's what usually happens instead.
They want to carry it
It looks like a giant Cherry Red crayon, so it gets shown to everyone at the gate before it gets drunk from. That's the whole trick — a bottle a child is proud of is a bottle that leaves the house.
It comes back empty
Cold water at lunchtime tastes like something worth finishing. The chug cap means a proper drink in the ten seconds between lessons, not a token sip through a straw.
It just keeps turning up
No cracked plastic, no mystery smell, no replacement in the January sales. Steel, a cap and a silicone base — there isn't much for a nine-year-old to break.




