Monday, July 11, 2011

Night Fun Outdoor Activities with Small Glow Sticks

Glow sticks are a well-known party products to many people and they are made available in a wide range of sizes, anywhere from 1.5” inch long to 15” long. An interesting fact is that mini glow sticks, offered by this site are used in a similar way like light bulbs, which are often embedded in other products to light them up. Mini glow sticks are installed in glasses and badges to make glow cups and glow badges. They are also great to be used as markers and temporary light in night activities such as jogging, golfing, frisbee, fishing, walking dogs and so on at night.


Jogging


Small glow sticks like 4” long ones are very versatile as they can be worn like glow pendant necklaces as markers for joggers jogging at night. The glow sticks are very bright at night and an keep the joggers safe by making them seen by passing cars from far away.


Glow Golfing


Small glowsticks are placed inside golf balls and glow sticks are used to mark or light up various areas of golf course. Glow golf grows from special event for Halloween only to more regular night fun games. It is very relaxing playing night golf after work with friends or co-workers. It is easy to schedule the games time as most people have busy day schedules.


Glow-in-the-dark Frisbee


Tape a couple of 22- inch glow necklaces with masking tape around the edge of your Frisbee to make a glow-in-the-dark Frisbee in a few minutes. So you don’t need to stop your outing at sunset but can keep playing with friends on beach, in the park or in backyard. Glow frisbee is a great sport toy to bring to your camping trips and at dinner time, it can also be used as a platter for serving drinks for fun.


Night Fishing


Mini glow sticks, still a good source of bright lights play big role in night fishing. They are tied to the fishing lines to attract fish and also make the any movement easy to spot. The glowing light can make bait appear larger than their actual sizes and stimulate the fish appetite.


Walking the Dogs


Not only can people benefits from glowsticks, their pets can also enjoy the fun and safety brought by glow sticks for any outdoor activities at night. The 22 inch glowsticks necklaces can be worn by pets too and you will never need to worry about them getting lost and not be able to be found in the darkness.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

4 Reasons For Glow Necklaces To Become So Popular

Glow necklaces have been used in so many occasions for them to be known to many people. They are especially popular light up party favor in North America, South America and Europe. Although their root was in the rave culture, glow necklaces are brought to holiday celebration, dancing parties, night clubs, campground, night sports and more today. Why Are this type of glow products so popular?

1. Designed for Popularity: The size of a standard glow necklace is 22 inch and it fits all people. After being activated, the long 22” glow stick is formed into a glowing halo. People can wear them around the neck or on forehead like headbands. Girls can wear them on the head like a colorful ribbon. Unlike many other party favors, glow necklaces can be used in many different ways. They can be even connected to form long glowing chains for decoration of the party.

2. Present Theme Colors Best: Many businesses, schools and other non-for-profit organizations have their unique colors for their names and logos, and it is a great idea to use glow necklaces in these colors for night events such as football games, school dance, annual company parties, etc. Glow products such as glow sticks, glow necklaces and glow bracelets in the theme color will bight a light show to the events. In the market, you can easily find glow necklaces in red, blue, green, pink, purple, orange and yellow.

3. Great Play Items for All Ages: Planning for a night time party and looking for tips for improvement? Whether it’s for the little ones or adults, glow and flashing series of party favors are always the winners. Glow necklaces are one products that are great for all ages. Kids go crazy with these eye-catching items and can play with them for hours. And for adults, there are many products to cheer them up too like the flashing wine glasses, light up hats, glow necklaces, etc. Glow necklaces contain small parts, not for children under 3 years old.

4. Financial and Economic Reasons: Glow products are low cost for large quantities. So they can cut budget for event holders. For example, instead of pricey lights, use glow sticks and glow necklaces to illuminating the walkway to your event. With specially designed tripod, glow sticks can stand up.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Glow sticks used at university student event together with laser tag, inflatables and live music

In recent news, university students had a wild glow event filled with laser tag, glow sticks, music and more, budget spent was more than $6000.

"...The expenses include advertising, security personnel, rental of the UREC field and inflatables, music system and DJ, sports equipment and glow sticks.

Marcus said SAB purchased a total of 1,500 glow items...."

Original post here, http://www.lsureveille.com/news/laser-tag-glow-sticks-illuminate-sab-event-friday-1.2556787

Spent like 6 grand might seem a bit high but according to the students, events like this are not as common and they really had a blast that night. In a laser tag setting, glow in the dark items like glow necklaces, glow sticks, bracelets, glasses are perfect to add fun to the experience. They also hired DJ and rented inflatables to make it more fun. Glow items are also used at night time sports events. People can play football, volleyball wearing glow necklaces. For flying freesbie, 8" long glow sticks bracelets can be attached to the rim of freesbie to make it glow. And as green or yellow are the brightest, choose either of those two colors will achieve the best lighting result.

Other fun sports game to play at night that can be made a lot more fun with the addition of glowing things is flying radio controlled airplanes. Attaching bright glow sticks on these little planes will achieve amazing lighting result at night as the plan dashing in and out of the sky, leaving a streak of lights created by glow sticks. In this case, the fact that glow sticks are so light-weighted yet emitting a strong light are very suitable for the application. Because any other lighting devices such as flashing lights will prove to be too heavy to be used; other devices that require external power such as batteries also won't work. Only glow sticks can be used in application like this.

Glow sticks also possess the capability of not affected by most weather elements. Such as rain, wind, etc. The only thing can affect their performance is surrounding temperature. Because it's a basically a chemical reaction and with all chemical reactions, the higher the temp the more rapid and intense the reaction will be, thus making the sticks glow brighter.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Light Up Glasses Are Not Recommended For Washing In Dishwashers

People go to Vegas for a down time and party fun and who would mind having more flashing lights. The flashing light up glasses would be excellent for get-togethers in Vegas. As they are quite light, one can even carry the drink walking around in the strip. Unlike glow items, light up party item with batteries can change flashing speed. One thing to keep in mind, light up glasses are not recommended for washing in dishwashers.

The lights of different kinds of lighted glasses are designed specifically to match the type of occasions that they are used. For example, the light up martini glasses generally can stay in one of the seven solid colors or rotate through all the colors. While the beer mugs and cola cups do not stay in one color or one flashing speed, but flash quickly in multi-colors constantly. When beer mugs and cola cups are used, it is usually in casual and informal party and occasion like at home or in pub. So the quick exciting flashing is the only flashing speed for these two kinds of light up barware. While elegant stemware including martini, wine, champagne and margaritas have steady light and can stay in one single color.

In your outdoor party in the summer, enjoy an ice cold drink in the light up cola cup. These glasses will spice up any nighttime gathering. The cola cups are great for people of all ages as they serve beverage, especially great for kids and teens. All light up glasses operates with batteries that are installed at the bases so they are not dishwasher safe. You want to avoid them from moisture to extend their economic life. So simply wash them with hands gently after use and dry them with towel after using. The heat and moisture from dishwasher will cause damage to the LED products.

The volume of the light up plastic glasses varies. For example, cola cup volume is 10oz and the volume of beer mug is 16oz. All the cocktail light up glasses have similar volume of around 6-8oz. They come packed in either white boxes or color boxes. The save shipping cost, the stems of the stemware are normally broken from the glasses and users need to assemble them together.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Use Flashing Blinky Lights in Creative Ways for Fun

Blinky lights, also called flashing blinky lights are light up flashing parties favors, ornaments, and toys. They come in different designs, shapes and sizes. There are small pins of only one inch wide and then there are long light up swords of 30 inches long.

Flashing pins that can be attached to clothes with a magnetic button or pins are well-known.
As they are so small and light, they can be and often are used in creative ways to accent costumes. Some fans going to rock concerts attached dozens of pins to a black shirt and it was crazy and so much fun. These small blinking lights can be attached to many things. Some students wear flashing blinky lights headband in the graduation costume party and that was quite original.

You can create light up balloons by inserting some small flashing blinky lights inside the balloons before inflating them with helium. Then the balloons will blink and what a creative way to decorate the table! Not many guest have seen flashing balloons and you can wow them with these fun decorations and even better, they are your own creation!

A few examples of other fun blinking lights are flashing rings, mouth pieces, blinking sunglasses, finger lights and light up headbands. Another cool item is the light up gloves that actually have the ends light up in various colors. The gloves are comfortable to wear and add a lot of excitement to night clubs dancing and rave parties.

Blinking lights are also added to barware such as glasses, trays, coasters and even ice cubes that you add to drinks. Creative folks also made a light up ice cubes centerpiece using the flashing ice cubes. You can use blinking lights in your theme colors to apply them in a better way to emphasize the themes of the events.

It is more fun when you use these fun flashing blinky lights in your own creative way. Many of the fun light up items can be used to make your own designs.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

22 Inch Long Glow Necklaces Sticks Used To Make Glowman Costumes

Seen those glow necklaces sticks videos on youtube? They are just hilarious! Glow necklaces sticks can be sewed into costumes and if you don’t have time for the sewing work, there are shortcuts to take. Glow badges with sticky sides can be stuck to various sports clothing to accent your costume. Or you can just wear glow necklaces and bracelets to add light. This blog on neon necklaces sticks contain a lot of useful information on the application of neon lights. Necklaces are 22 inch long and can be worn around the waist like belts, just use the connectors to connect them. In total darkness, wearing glowman costumes with lighted glow sticks on them will be a lot of fun. As only the glowing sticks can be seen in the dark, you can make any kinds of glowstick man design as you want, making it look like a robot, maybe a bee, or anything, just line up the sticks to be like that. Glow in the dark products are also used for on-stage performances.

Looking for stuff for gift bags? Some companies put glowsticks in gift bags for Halloween to customers and employees. Glow and LED toys are fun and practical items for giveaway. For promotional purpose, you can have your company name imprinted on them to increase the awareness. This marketing idea has become quite popular.

Have you ever tried fishing at twilight with glowing lights? You can tie glowstick to the line and they would act like bobbers. They also do a great job of attracting fish and stimulate fish to bite. Fishing glow sticks come with hooks for easy attaching to the fishing lines. They contain either dry glow power or chemical liquid. Glowstick is used for diving as well. Deep-sea divers use glow stick for lighting and to keep track of each other underwater. They are quite light, and for one of the biggest commercially available glow sticks, the 12 inch long ones, they weigh only 3 ounces each. Compared with flashlight, they are very portable. And they generate light from the whole body of the sticks, unlike only the light bulb for flashlight. As campground is usually near bushes and forest, there is more possibility of accidental fire. For this problem, LED and chemical glow products can help. Instead of real candles, use battery-operated tea light candle to light up the BBQ table. 6 inch yellow glowstick can replace candle for light source.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Use Glow In The Dark Party Supplies For Glowsticking At RAVES

A glow in the dark party with a room lighting up in soft and colorful glow is plain fun, whether for kids or adults. In summer times, many people host hot summer party with glowing items. Glow necklaces and glow bracelets can be put around the rings of plates and cups, respectively to light them up. Fiber optic light up centerpieces can be laid on every table. Glow cups or flashing LED glasses can be used to serve drinks. Even coasters, olive picks, straws, stirrers and serving trays can light up if you want to spice it up more. All these glow in the dark party supplies can be easily purchased online. The reason that glow products are great for dancing is that they create awesome light effect when being moved fast as if one is painting with glow light. Glowsticking is raving holding glow sticks and the dancers create cool light shapes in the air. Turn down the lights and let the glow party start! Not many people have been to a real glow in the dark party, so this is still a relatively new party theme and people will be amazed and excited by the dazzling colors, glow and strobes. You can get into party mood instantly and have a great time. Since there are specialty stores carrying light up toys and fun glow in the dark party supplies, purchasing what you need is no sweat. And the good news is that these discounted party package deals are available in many online stores and many glowing items are bulk packed with big discounts. Light up toys can be gifts to give to your guests to take home. Kids can go crazy with these toys and can play with them for the whole night. Some glow in the dark party supplies are actually good safety accessories to keep around the house. Glow sticks are reliable lights in emergency and also popular items in glow parties. So get them in bulk quantity and if you have leftovers from the party, keep them in the house as preparation for emergency need.