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Reggio Fridays - Playroom Lighting at Night

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This week I wanted to show our playroom lighting. We have been collecting a lot of really fantastic lights over the past few years. You can see many of them in these pics. I don't have all of the little LED lights on in the photos, but the "Christmas light" types are on in the photos.

This first photo is to show the lighting I added to our new shelving from Target. These were part of Christmas. I noticed that in the evening it was hard to see everything on the shelves really nicely, even though we have floor lamps in the room. So I added to sets of lights from our Christmas tree. These are the same lights that are in our Waldorf Playstand. I am very happy with the results, it has really helped to light up the shelving, exactly the way I was hoping.

These next few photos are with the floor lamps turned off.  I do not have all of the small LED lights on in the photos, but I will show a photo at the end with them on.

This set of photos shows close-ups of the lights All of the small battery operated LED lights are slow color changing lights. They continuously cycle through all of the colors at a nice slow pace. The Owl lights, Skeleton lights, and Ghost lights were from Halloween, we got them at Target. Graham and Parker asked me not to remove them once Halloween was over. I did not remove them but I did change where they are hung up in the room when the room was re-designed after Christmas. They are also slow color changing lights.  The multicolor ball lights are not color change lights.  The star lights are also not color change lights.  We do not have all of the small lights and specialty going at once, its always just one or two here and there. The room is very calming and relaxing. The specialty lights (disco light, plasma ball, planet light) only get turned on when there are not too many others on, so as not to become obnoxious or chaotic.

These lights were on sale at Walgreens over Christmas. They are slow color changing battery operated glitter snow globe LED lights. They look like a big Christmas bulb from a strand of Christmas lights up close and make amazing patterns on the shelf! They are mainly used as a night light or an addition to quiet low light, evening play.

See how the lights create sort of an aurora borealis effect on the wall....   ;)
The ghost lights are on a different shelf now. The fiber optic light is there now.

planet light, we have had this in the family since the mid 2000's. It was from IKEA.

jellyfish light

plasma ball

Showing you some of the color and pattern effects from the Christmas bulb lights.....

This is our fiber optic light, seen in pics in the beginning of this post. This shows some of the colors it rotates through.

The star lights on the mirror table. I made the mirror table several months ago. I plan to post about that soon.

Close up of the owl lights

Ghost lights close up. Graham's lights

skeleton lights close up, Parker's lights.

another close up of the owl lights.

Top 10 most viewed posts of 2012

This is Caution! Twins at Play's top 10 most viewed posts of 2012!!

One of my favorite activities from 2012! Ball pit bath with balls, ducks, sponge bombs, bubbles, and purple water!

1. Life is full of hidden art
2. The perfect DIY "container" light box
3. Light Tables 101 (featuring 101 ways to play use light table)
4. Oooey Gooey black light sensory bottles
5. Fun Preschool Science
6. Smart Outdoor Play
7. The Ultimate Light Table Guide
8. Outdoor Science Lab and Outdoor Art Corner
9. Easy DIY Christmas Ornaments
10. Everything Must Glow

Thanks for viewing this blog and this post! I hope you will all check out all ten posts and I hope you continue to frequent Caution Twins at Play in 2013 and years to come!!

Have a great year, everyone!!

Indoor Play and Learn Environment update 1/1/13

Here is an update to Graham and Parker's indoor play and learn environment. This is their bedroom/play room/home school room. We also do playing and homeschooling in their outdoor play environment. I will be posting an update of their outdoor play and learn environment very soon! I changed out some of the shelving and updated the light table area. Some of the specific play areas have been switched around. The reading area was swapped with the block area. The reading area is now a combination of reading and magnet play. The board game shelf has been swapped out and updated.   I removed the top from a small rolling bakers rack and turned it into an awesome cart for the overhead projector. I swapped out the lights on the mirror table. They recently got a new play kitchen, it is wooden and seen in the pics too. We used to have a plastic step2 play kitchen but they really didn't play with it very much, They really love the wooden kitchen at the Orlando Science Center, so we decided to get them a wooden kitchen. They love it and so do their little friends that come over to play.  The pictures have been taken over the past 8-10 days. Some at night and some during the day. If anyone has questions on what is what and where to get it, just leave a comment or email me. [email protected]

right now they are keeping their big brown fuzzy monster feet slippers along the wall by their toy kitchen. I plan to find a better spot for those. They have been kind of floating around the room lately. The crayon caddy and coloring books are on the shelving in this pic. There are also learning toys, materials, manipulatives, and some craft supplies.

the end of the bed is usually where we put the rody and DIY light box.
The light box gets moved around when they use it.

some water color leaves they made sitting on our DIY mirror table.

this toy box houses their vehicles and balls. The top has their puppet baskets.

some blocks on the table and the light panels turned on.

top of the art, craft, and paper center.  The white and black paper are accessed from the left side. The paper stacker they are in is turned sideways. The tape is accessed from the right side, for it is turned sideways as well.

paint, brushes, stamps, stamp pads, markers, bingo daubbers, glitter glue, glue, etc.