Make bedtime fun with novelty hot water bottles. Kids and kids at heart alike will love the range of novelty hot water bottles available today – from simple comic designs on standard water bottle covers to shaped novelty hot water bottles that come in a bewildering variety of incarnations.
You’ll find novelty hot water bottles of both the “standard” (i.e. fill with boiling water) and microwaveable types. Microwaveable novelty hot water bottles provide safe, long-lasting heat in engaging packages – though of course there’s nothing wrong with your bog-standard “normal” novelty hot water bottles as long as you screw the lid on properly!
Most novelty hot water bottles are simply normal hot water bottles (or “heating units”, as hot water bottle companies apparently like to call the innards of novelty hot water bottles) hidden inside some kind of cuddly toy. Which means, of course, that you can find novelty hot water bottles in the shape of practically anything – from fuzzy cows and ducks to the rather dubious “adult” Hot Water Willie. Willie aside, novelty hot water bottles are an extremely useful way of getting the kids to quiet down (what could be more soothing than a cuddly toy that’s warm when you hug it?) and even take their “medicine”. The heat generated by hot water bottles (and, therefore, the heat generated by novelty hot water bottles – remember, novelty hot water bottles are just regular ones with daft covers) has been proven to significantly ease most mild aches and pains. So using novelty hot water bottles when your child has a stomach ache, for example, is a good way of getting the treatment across without all the usual preliminary faffing about.
Like anything else either boring or adult, novelty hot water bottles are a pretty simple way to make your child take an interest in something that has no intrinsic fascination. A kid is far less likely to toss a favourite toy out of bed than a boring old water bottle. The thickly-padded toylike covers of novelty hot water bottles provide extra protection, too, letting the heat out slowly and gently rather than (as can happen with non-novelty hot water bottles) far too much from one spot. Make your little one’s bedtime safe and warm – give novelty hot water bottles a go.
