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Topic: children`s lights

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brickiemum

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Any recommendations for children's night lights? My 4 and 6 year old share a bed pod and although they love camping they can get disoriented in the dark on the first few nights. The lanterns/torches they have are too bright and drain batteries too rapidly to be left on overnight. I'm looking for something battery operated and with a gentle glow that will last for at least a few overnights before requiring new batteries.

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Have you thought about some battery operated fairy lights? My daughter uses them in her bedroom and they just give a nice glow rather than a bright light.

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Solar garden lights.

Leave outside during the day to charge, and take in at night leaving the stake outside.
Pound shops are full of them.
Ideal for putting near to the base of that guy line you keep tripping up on at night too

Pay any more than £1 and you will probably get one that will be too bright as it probably has AAA rechargeable's in it.

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Those coloured things that kids play with give out a good light for about 8 hours. I think they are called light sticks or glow sticks or something...has a tube inside which you break and it then glows. You can only use them once but you buy several of them.

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Yes we have always taken glowsticks for night lights whilst camping. The 6" ones are bright enough for a night light, the glow bracelets not so much.

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Hi, we use some battery led nightlights which we purchased from Ikea, they give a soft glow light, and the batteries last for ages, they are called Solvinden. We have only got the opaque ones as when we purchased ours 5 years ago that was the only colour they came in so don't know how good the glow is from the other colours.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80266114

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Brilliant ideas, thanks folks.I think I'll take a selection of those and let my children choose which to try.

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Just to throw another one in....we use the fake flickering tea light candles from the £ shop with our grandsons....not massively bright but the three in a pack together just takes the edge off

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We use a wind up light from GO. Its got two brightness settings and lasts the night on one charge. We put it on the lower setting for overnight and have showed our 8 year old how to wind it up if it has gone off for any reason and because its a standalone lamp he can take it with him if he needs to get up and find us. He doesn't like being in the dark in the tent and he gets on with this fine. We then plug it into the EHU during the day and start over again!!

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Glow sticks might work BUT if they get broken and the inside stuff leaks out it stains and is nasty. I have a pink sheet at home with orange blobs on it where she had it under the duvet and bent it too many times and it broke. She cleaned up but the sheet 3 years on has not!

If you suspended them above child height once they were asleep it might work.

I quite like this idea and I may have a think on this and my 3 might end up with global sticks in the evening or at night. Could even give them in the evening for good behaviour during the day. Thanks...

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