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5 FREE AT- HOME ACTIVITIES TO DO WITH YOUR KIDS IN THE FALL
5 FREE AT- HOME ACTIVITIES TO DO WITH YOUR KIDS
Have no fear, fall is here!
Whatever happened to good old-fashioned fun that didn’t cost a dime?
Check out our top 5 FREE Fall activities that will keep your kids busy at home during Covid!
1. HALLOWEEN PJ AND MOVIE NIGHT: Dress up in your favorite Halloween pajamas, get some sleeping bags out, cuddle up, and throw on your favorite Halloween movie. Top it off and indulge in your favorite Halloween treats! Maybe those Halloween Pumpkin Cookie Sandwiches mentioned in our previous Fall blog post!
2. FALL ADVENTURE WALK: Get some family exercise in and go on a family fall adventure walk for some free fun. As you make your way throughout the streets, pick up any pretty nature items you find on your adventure (leaves, acorns, etc.) and create a craft at home with them!
3. SEND HALLOWEEN MAIL: Color or create Halloween pictures and send them to family or friends that could use some light in their lives. Everyone loves receiving mail and kids love putting their pictures in an envelope, stamping them, and bringing them to the mailbox!
4. JUMP IN A PILE OF LEAVES: Here’s some old- fashioned fun for ya! Have your kids rake up leaves in your yard and jump in them! Jumping in leaves never gets old and now you also have a cleaned-up yard!
5. GET OUT YOUR FALL DÉCOR: Make a special day out of decorating for fall and Halloween. Kids love to help, and they love to see all the decorations and goodies you have. Light some fall candles and include the kids in the decorating process while listening to some nice holiday music!
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5 FALL MUST-DO AT-HOME ACTIVITIES TO KEEP YOUR KIDS BUSY DURING COVID
Get ready for the fall and stock up on these 5 Fall Must-Do activities that will keep your kids busy at home during these trying times, and that won’t break the bank! Check out the list below!
1. PAINT A CERAMIC PUMPKIN CRAFT: Have you ever seen those adorable mini ceramic pumpkins that you can paint? You can find a 2-Pack Ceramic Pumpkin Paint Kit Here from Target! It comes with the pumpkins, paints, brushes, and fun stickers. Let your kids get crafty and create a Halloween decoration that can be your very own keepsake from your kids, for years to come!
2. COLOR A 3D HAUNTED HOUSE: Keep your kids busy for hours coloring this massive 3D Haunted House! Once your kids have finished coloring their playhouse, your children can extend the fun for a few more hours while playing in their magical masterpiece they created themselves! The craft that keeps on giving!
3. PUMPKIN COOKIES: Nothing beats baking in the fall! Pumpkin everything! Make delicious pumpkin cookie sandwiches with frosting in the center, that your kids will love! You can find pumpkin cookies here and the Halloween frosting here. Take two individual cookies, put a spoonful of frosting in the center of both, smash them together, and voilà, a pumpkin cookie sandwich! Yum!
4. HALLOWEEN PLAY-DOH: Pick up a bag of Halloween Play-Doh found here. The kids will spend hours playing, cutting, and shaping the Play-Doh into ghoulish goblins, witches, bats, pumpkins, and more! You can even bust out your Halloween cookie cutters and use those to make the perfect Halloween shapes and designs.
5. DOLLAR TREE HALLOWEEN PAINT CRAFTS: Head over to the Dollar Tree and pick up $1 Halloween arts and crafts. Dollar Tree specifically has individual seasonal paint projects that your kids will love to paint and design! See the assortment of Dollar Tree Halloween craft supplies you can find at your local store here. If you don’t have a Dollar Tree store near you, you can sometimes luck out at the Target dollar spot where they have season paint projects for only a buck!
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OUR ‘LIT’ 7 PICKS FOR CHRISTMAS LIGHT FESTIVITIES YOU CAN’T MISS
1. MILLENNIUM PARK’s WRIGLEY SQUARE, City of Chicago, November 22, 2019- January 6, 2020
A one-mile paved path immersed with interactive lighting and effects. This gorgeous Christmas light display highlights the beauty of trees in the winter. Enjoy holiday music and the captivating light designs while warming up by a cozy fire. Roast marshmallows or sip on a warm drink. A simply stunning sight the entire family can enjoy!
For more information: MILLENNIUM PARK’s WRIGLEY SQUARE
2. ILLUMINATION, Tree Lights at The Morton Arboretum, November 23, 2019- JANUARY 5, 2020
A one-mile paved path immersed with interactive lighting and effects. This gorgeous Christmas light display highlights the beauty of trees in the winter. Enjoy holiday music and the captivating light designs while warming up by a cozy fire. Roast marshmallows or sip on a warm drink. A simply stunning sight the entire family can enjoy!
For more information: Illumination: Tree lights at The Morton Arboretum
3. LIGHTSCAPE-Chicago Botanic Garden, November 22- January 5, 2020
An enchanting, after dark, illuminated trail! A mile-long path filled with dazzling color and sound. The magic of Lightscape includes a playful choir of singing trees, immersive ribbons of light, a garden of fire, and a sparking tunnel of light. You can even roast marshmallows over a fire. Finally, a stunning festive finale pathway that will take your breath away.
For more information: LIGHTSCAPE
4. LINCOLN PARK ZOOLIGHTS, Lincoln Park, November 29, 2019- January 5, 2020
Celebrate the 25 years of ZooLights at Lincoln Park Zoo this year. A festive holiday experience that is in the heart of the city and free! The ZooLights feature hundreds of luminous displays and seasonal activities, all under the glow of 2.5 million holiday lights. Get a photo with Santa, gaze at the incredible 3D displays, and enjoy warm spiced wine and frosty beers!
For more information: ZooLights
5. SANTA’S ARRIVAL AND FIREWORKS, Deer Park, November 15, 2019, 6pm
Don’t miss Santa’s arrival in a fire truck following the performance by Those Funny Little People starting at 6PM! Countdown with Santa as he turns on the holiday lights and enjoy the fireworks show with a finale honoring our veterans. Santa will also be available to visit the children for free photos until 8:30PM. Kids who visit with Santa will receive free antler headbands and a free pouch of magical reindeer food, while supplies last.
For more information: Deer Park Santa’s Arrival & Fireworks
6. AURORA FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS, Aurora, November 29, 2019, 7 days a week 5pm-9pm
One of the largest free outdoor drive- through holiday light displays in Northern Illinois. Witness the new dancing arcs and the expanded Ice Rink. Enjoy Santa’s Toy Factory, Old Man Winter, elves and reindeer, holiday trains, gigantic snowflakes, beautiful lighted swags on the fence line surrounding the zoo and other holiday sparkling sights!
For more information: Aurora Festival of Lights
7. COZLEY ZOO FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS AND TREE SALE, Wheaton, November 29, 2019- December 30, 2019.
The Festival of Lights is a winter wonderland featuring 20,000 twinkling Christmas lights, hot chocolate, and holiday gifts. The holiday lights come on at 3PM. The Tree Sale has an amazing selection of Christmas trees consisting of more than 2,400 trees in four varieties. Wreaths, greens, and garland are also available for purchase.
Zoo admission is free during the Festival of Lights and Tree Sale. Donations are greatly appreciated.
For more information: Festival of Lights and Tree Sale
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It’s a Wonderful Light is Chicago’s premier holiday lighting installation service, servicing the Chicagoland area including Winnetka, Barrington, Glen Ellyn, Naperville, St. Charles, Wayne, and Geneva, and the surrounding suburbs.
10 ILLUMINATING FACTS ABOUT HOLIDAY LIGHTS
1. The Rockefeller Christmas tree in 2018 was decorated with 50,000 LED holiday lights (approx. 5 miles) and it was topped with a Swarovski-crystal star that had 3 million crystals and 70 glass spikes. On Christmas day, the Christmas tree lights shine for a full 24 hours.
2. The Guinness World Record for “Most Lights on a Residential Property” is held by the Gay Family from LaGrangeville, NY. The total number of holiday lights on their holiday display was 601,736 in 2014.The holiday light display is spread across two acres and takes about two months to build. It is synchronized to music of more than 200 songs, including top-40 hits and holiday favorites.
3. Thomas Edison and Edward Johnson created the first strand of electric lights in 1880. Edison displayed the lights on the outside of his Menlo Park Laboratory. The first people to see them were train passengers riding by the building.
4. Albert Sadacca, a 15-year-old boy, helped make the lights popular by adapting the lighting his parents sold for Christmas trees, by painting the bulbs red, green, and other colors. It was then that the lighting business took off.
5. It is estimated that more than 150 million light sets are sold in America each year.
6. It is estimated that more than 80 million homes are decorated with holiday lights.
7. The Movie how the Grinch Stole Christmas features more than 52,000 Christmas lights.
8. About 5,800 people are hospitalized annually for injuries involving falls while decorating their houses for the holidays.
9. The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimated that in 2016 there were 14,700 people hospitalized for injuries involving holiday lights, Christmas trees, and other decorations.
10. On average about 240 injuries per day during the months of November and December have been reported.
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CANDY OVERLOAD? DONATE IT! 10 NOVEMBER TRADITIONS TO START IN 2019
1. DONATE HALLOWEEN CANDY: It’s time to put away the Halloween costumes and start showing your thankfulness by giving back! Have your kids set aside some candy and take part in Operation Gratitude OperationGratitude.com. This program sends care packages to deployed troops, first responders, veterans, wounded heroes, and to the children of deployed troops. Each care package includes a handful of the candy you donate. You can also start a tradition to volunteer at your local homeless shelter or food pantry and make it an annual event for the family.
2. MOVEMBER: Get in on the yearly event of growing out your moustache during the month of November. Movember is a tradition that helps raise awareness of men’s health issues including cancers and men’s suicide.
3. FALL CRAFTS: Kids love getting creative! Spend the day making crafts or DIY thanksgiving decorations. Cheap, easy, and family fun for everyone! Tip: The Target dollar section has perfect crafts that the kids obsess over and for only a buck, why not?!
4. FAMILY GAME NIGHT: Get cozy and start a fire. Turn off the electronics and bust out the board games. Family game nights filled with snacks, drinks, and pajamas are hard to beat.
5. FOOTBALL: Enough said.
6. TURKEY TROT: Gather your squad and get the family signed up at your nearest turkey trot. Everyone can participate, both kids and adults, and even moms with strollers. Walk or run, it’s all for fun!
7. I AM THANKFUL FOR: Every morning in the month of November ask eachother for one thing you are thankful for. Check out these Glass Gratitude Jars at gratitudeglassjars.com
8. BLACK FRIDAY: After you get yourself in a food coma, take a nap and wake up in time to shop until you drop, starting at midnight! Make it a tradition for you and yours!
9. GET YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE: Thanksgiving is over and now its time to pick out your Christmas tree. Get the best Christmas tree by going the day after Thanksgiving or the following weekend. You don’t want to wait until the trees are all picked over!
10. HOLIDAY AND CHRISTMAS LIGHTS: It’s time to put your holiday and Christmas lights up! Don’t let your neighbors outshine you! If installing Christmas lights and decorations sounds miserable to you, call a professional Christmas light installer!
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It’s a Wonderful Light is Chicago’s premier holiday lighting installation service, servicing the Chicagoland area including Winnetka, Barrington, Glen Ellyn, Naperville, St. Charles, Wayne, and Geneva, and the surrounding suburbs.
8 – HOLIDAY HUMOR CHRISTMAS LIGHT DISPLAYS
1. Clark Griswold Christmas light display gone right! Who doesn’t love the movie Christmas Vacation? This holiday light display will get your whole neighborhood laughing!
2. You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I’m telling you why, Santa Claus is creeping on you! This Christmas light display takes the “Santa Claus is coming to town” song to another level and we love it! So be good for goodness sake!
3. How about this Grinch that literally stole the Christmas light display! One of the cleverest and easiest displays we have seen. It only includes a few strands of lights and a blow-up sized Grinch, both smart and witty!
4. We caught Santa red handed hitting the head in this holiday display! He must have had too many milk and cookies!
5. We love this creative firemen Christmas light display. A reminder to be safe with your lights this year and always turn your Christmas lights off at night!
6. This is ingenious! The lazy but smart way to beat the system! Spouses, don’t get any ideas!
7. Tis’ the season for all the scrooges out there! The hilarious ‘he’s in trouble’ display! We’d hate to be this guy when his wife comes home!
8. The just ‘surrender’ Christmas light display. When you just know you can’t compete with your next door neighbor!
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It’s a Wonderful Light is Chicago’s premier holiday lighting installation service, servicing the Chicagoland area including Winnetka, Barrington, Glen Ellyn, Naperville, St. Charles, Wayne, and Geneva, and the surrounding suburbs.
8 CHRISTMAS LIGHT INSTALLATION SAFETY TIPS
The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimated that in 2016 there were 14,700 people hospitalized for injuries involving holiday lights, Christmas trees, and other decorations, with falls being the highest injuries at 34%!
Don’t let your Holiday lights trip you up this year. Here are a few safety tips that will keep you on your feet!
1. LADDERS, LADDERS, LADDERS: Since falls cause the greatest amount of injuries throughout the holidays, educate yourself on basic ladder safety. First, inspect your ladder for loose screws, hinges, or bolts before using. Always have a spotter with you when hanging Christmas lights both outside or inside. Fiberglass or wooden ladders are the safest ladders when working with Christmas lights, metal ladders could cause electric shock while handling lights. Lastly, don’t forget to use the right ladder height. Ladders should extend at least three feet past the edge of your roof.
2. INSPECT THE LIGHTS: First comes first, inspect the light strands for burned out bulbs, broken cords, loose connections, or frayed ends. If replacing bulbs or fuses, unplug all decorative lighting first. Newer lights have fused plugs which prevent sparks in case of a short circuit, so don’t hang onto old strands of lights. Newer lights=safer lights!
3. SECURE THE LIGHTS: Fasten the outdoor lights appropriately to trees, houses, or walls. This will protect your lights from wind damage and from blowing Christmas light strands loose, which could cause a protentional hazard. Do not staple or nail light strings onto your house or structure, it can cut through wire insulation and could start a fire. Always make sure your lights are plugged into circuits protected by GFCIs (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters).
4. LED LIGHTS: Not only do LED lights help save on your energy bill (they use 75% less energy), but they are better quality and last longer. LED lights don’t get hot to the touch, so you don’t have to worry about kids or yourself getting burned. Be aware of overheated lights on Christmas trees or other decorations in the house in order to prevent fires.
5. THE NUMBER 3: If you want to stay on the safe side of strand wattage and circuit capacity, then you should never plug in more than three sets of Christmas lights into a single extension cord. This can cause major problems with overheating and can become a big hazard quickly.
6. EXTENSION CORDS: Yes, these are important too! Extension cords can sometimes overheat so check them from time to time. You also want to make sure that extension cords are safely and securely taped down onto the ground. Believe it or not, these can also cause injuries from people tripping over them.
7. SAFE STORAGE: Take down matters! Once the holiday season is over, ‘try’ to keep your lights in an organized untangled manner. You want to store them in a sealed container to prevent possible water damage that could occur during the off-season. Putting your lights in a sealed container will also keep them away from animals that often chew through cords and could actually save you from having to buy new lights next year.
8. TURN THEM OFF: Sleep soundly by unplugging your tree lights and any outdoor holiday lighting. You can also put your holiday lights on timers allowing you to set a time for when your lights go on and off every day! This way, no worries necessary!
Does this sound like too much added worry and stress during the most wonderful time of the year?! Call a professional holiday lighting service today!
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It’s a Wonderful Light is Chicago’s premier holiday lighting installation service, servicing the Chicagoland area including the surrounding suburbs, Winnetka, Barrington, Glen Ellyn, Naperville, St. Charles, Wayne, and Geneva, and the surrounding suburbs.
5 WAYS TO SPOOK YOUR NEIGHBORS WITH HALLOWEEN LIGHTS
Halloween light installation from beyond the grave!
1. GRAVEYARDS: Spook your neighbors by creating creepy graveyard displays by using animatronics, fog machines, and cobwebs. Go all out and add a gory effect with ghostly tombstones, mini lights, strobe lights, spot lights and other freaky features!
2. BRANCH WRAPPED TREES: Attract the trick-or-treaters this year by lighting up your neighborhood with branch wrapped trees using orange, green, and purple mini lights. You can get creative by alternating mini light colors on each tree or keep it simple by sticking with just one mystical mini light color. Add a spooky spider for an even more sinister sight.
3. INDOOR HAUNTED HOUSE: You can get as spine-chilling as you want while decorating the inside of your house, keeping it creepy-classy or terrifyingly-eerie. Mini lights, cobwebs, scarecrows, and life-sized skeletons and mummies make for perfect ghoulish indoor decorations. You can also add Halloween wall decals, light up jack-o-lanterns, or hang ghosts throughout the house. Decorate your fireplace mantel by using spiderwebs, mini lights, and candles. Don’t forget to drape a Halloween banner across the mantel as the finishing touch!
4. OUTDOOR HAUNTED HOUSE: You can’t beat Halloween pre-lit wire decorations, light up spider webs, and Halloween yard inflatables that’ll add the perfect horror to your haunted house. They are so easy and convenient, yet such a spooktacular spectacle they will illuminate your house on Halloween night! Be the spookiest on the block!
5. ROOFLINE LIGHTS: Deck your roofline out with Halloween LED lights. The Halloween LED lights come in purple, orange, and green. Don’t forget about your bushes, decorate them with purple, orange, and green mini lights. Check out those Halloween icicle lights! Show stopper!
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It’s a Wonderful Light is Chicago’s premier holiday lighting installation service, servicing the Chicagoland area including the surrounding suburbs, Winnetka, Barrington, Glen Ellyn, Naperville, St. Charles, Wayne, and Geneva, to only name a few.
Have No Fear, Your 2019 Christmas Light Installers are Near!
SPREADING HOLIDAY CHEER,
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIGHT IS HERE,
TO INSTALL YOUR LIGHTS THIS YEAR!!
WHY YOU SHOULD HIRE A CHRISTMAS LIGHT INSTALLER NEAR YOU:
1. TIME: The entire Christmas light installation process, from start to finish, takes way too much valuable time, time that no one has (except us)! It’s not only a tedious time-sucking chore but who wants to be put to work on their day off, especially during football season!
2. HASSLE: Leave the hassle and the headaches to the professionals. No more pulling a Clark Griswold and unraveling tangled lights and checking strands bulb by bulb. Imagine no more wasted time frequenting the local hardware stores in search of reliable affordable lights!
3. FREE CUSTOM DESIGN: Our professional design crew customizes your holiday display with a photo of your house to your exact requests and vision, using our top-of-the-line virtual design program. We provide our free custom design of your house before you even commit!
4. PRODUCT: When it comes to our product, we don’t go cheap. We use high quality LED lights for all our holiday displays. LED lights save you up to 80% in energy costs! We also have premium wreaths and garland that you will struggle to find anywhere else.
5. INSTALL AND TAKE DOWN: Our professional Christmas light installers not only put up your lights without you stepping foot in miserable conditions, but they also take everything down. Sounds magical doesn’t it?
6. STORAGE: We even store the product year-round. Think about all that precious storage space you will save!
7. AFFORDABLE: Our Christmas lights installers do EVERYTHING for you (design, install, take-down, store), using unbeatable products, at an affordable price. What more could you ask for?
8. DAZZLE METER: Let’s not kid ourselves, we both know you can tell a professional holiday lighting display vs. a DIY holiday lighting display. Why not impress everyone and reach a dazzle meter of 10!
9. YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE DOING IT: Our professional designers are decorating and providing quotes for all your surrounding neighbors including Winnetka, Barrington, Glen Ellyn, St. Charles, Wayne, and Naperville (to only name a few), for both Halloween and Christmas RIGHT NOW. Don’t let your neighbors outshine you. Be the brightest on the block!
10. DO IT FOR THE KIDS: That should be all the reason you need! After all, Christmas is only once a year, and nothing beats the innocence of a smiling child gazing at your twinkling masterpiece.
11. FREE QUOTE: The most popular installation dates are filling up fast, call now to get your free custom design and quote. The professionals at It’s a Wonderful Light would be honored to handle your Christmas lighting installation for 2019.
12. HAPPY WIFE, HAPPY LIFE: Really, what is there to lose, besides street cred?
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It’s a Wonderful Light is Chicago’s premier holiday lighting installation service, servicing the Chicagoland area including the surrounding suburbs, Winnetka, Barrington, Glen Ellyn, Naperville, St. Charles, Wayne, and Geneva, to only name a few.
Beautify Your Home With A Christmas Light Installation Service
Residents of Naperville, IL love getting into the holiday spirit. Rather than braving the cold weather and climbing towering ladders on their own, however, savvy locals are reaching out for professional help. Are you looking for Christmas light installation service in in Naperville? If you are, then we have the perfect solutions for you. We offer a number of affordable options in support so that locals can enjoy the warmth and festivity of this beloved season without investing a lot of labor or time.
We pride ourselves in offering seamless, end to end solutions to our clients. This way, Naperville locals can get beautiful holiday decor without setting up, taking decorations down, or even storing them on their own. We’ll do all of that for you. We have trained professionals who can decorate your home from the foundation to the roof while not only stringing lights, but adding garlands, ribbons, bows, tinsel, and any other festive elements that you want to have as part of your outdoor decorating plan.
Once the season is over, we’ll come right back out to remove everything that we have applied. We’ll then pack these items into our trucks so you don’t have to see them until the holidays roll around again. This is the most seamless and efficient way to have all of your holiday decorating done. It is also the safest. With a comprehensive commercial insurance plan, we can do all of our work without exposing you to any unfortunate liability issues. This is why our services are far preferable than simply hiring and unlicensed party from the web.
All of our clients love the level of artistry and skill that we apply to each and every one of our projects. We will assess your house at the start of these efforts. Next, we will draft a complete design plan so that you can see our intended layout for your abode. Once you’ve approved our plans and have made any recommendations and additions that you see fit, we’ll go ahead and bring these finalized design ideas to fruition.
With complete design installation and a reliable Christmas light removal service to follow, there’s very little that you’ll have to do these holidays to beautify your home and show your Christmas spirit. Call 630-201-9627 today for a free estimate! With our help, you home will look absolutely amazing.