Abstract: An illuminating sippy cup with audio playback for providing entertainment for a child and for improving the ability to locate it once misplaced. The illuminating sippy cup with audio playback is embodied as either a conventionally styled sippy cup with an electronics housing built in or as a conventional sippy cup with a discrete electronics housing attached to it. In either embodiment, the illuminating sippy cup with audio playback additionally includes a plurality of external lighting elements operatively connected to the electronics housing, in which the primary of the operative components of the illuminating sippy cup with audio playback are included. A wireless remote control is provided to enable a user to transmit wireless command signals to the illuminating sippy cup with audio playback, thereby causing it to selectively activate the lighting elements and/or play sound over the speakers.