Easy Solar Holiday Lights

With the holidays approaching, many people look for new and fun ways to decorate their homes. Maybe you are looking for some new ideas for Halloween decorations. Maybe you’re just tired of the old Christmas lights that you have been using for years. What better way to light up your holidays than with solar holiday lights?

Traditional holiday lights are a hassle. You always wind up running extension chords all over the place, burned out bulbs need to be replaced; you have to worry about short circuits due to rain, the huge electricity bills… Yea, it’s a pain. Solar holiday lights completely eliminate those hassles, but how do they look?

Solar lighting technology has come so far in just the last couple of years that manufacturers have release a huge assortment of solar lighting styles – including Halloween and Christmas lights. For Christmas you have options like:

• Solar Net Lights
  - These are basically a "net" of LED lights that you use to wrap a shrub. They light up at night and a sensor turns them of when the sun rises. They stay lit for about 8 hours and require 1 AAA battery that is sold separately.


• Solar Christmas string lights
  - This is a string of 50 solar powered LED lights that can be strung around lamp posts, trees, mail boxes, banisters, etc. They also have a sensor that turns them on at night and off during the day and run for about 8 hours.


• Solar Multicolor LED Christmas Lights
  - These are a lot like the Solar string lights above, but are multicolor. They also have daylight sensors and 50 LED bulbs.


• Solar Blue Snow Flake Lights
  - I personally have these and I love them. They are really bright and very pretty. There were a couple of bad reviews from people having a problem with the lights shorting out after a while, but I have had no problems with mine. They are only $8 for a string of 20, and the seller has great feedback, so for me, it was worth trying.

If you're looking for Halloween decorations, you can choose:

• Solar Halloween Lighted Carved Pumpkin Jack-o-lantern Decoration
  - This is a solar power smiling Jack-o-lantern decoration for a front lawn or similar. It is about 8" in diameter and has a daylight sensor that lights it up at night and turns it off during the day.


• Halloween Sound Activated Rocks GO BACK or BOO Yard Decorations
  - These are 9.5" by 6 by 4 rocks that light up at night with a greeting for visitors. Choose either "Go Back" or "Boo". They are, of course, solar powered and have a daylight sensor.


• Solar Powered Halloween Lighted Skull Decoration
  - This is exactly like the pumpkin decoration, but in a skull. It is also a little bigger than the Jack-o-Lantern (about 10").
  
  

Needless to say, they all come with the benefits that we come to expect from all solar lighting products, like: ease of installation, energy efficiency, versatility, etc. Not to mention, most traditional lights need to be either turned on and off manually, or attached to a timer. All of these solar holiday lights come with daylight sensors. It doesn't get more trouble free than that!

I hope this article was able to give you some ideas for the upcoming holidays.

Cheers!