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No problem sharing. Every girl needs some sparkles!
DD's lights are purple (we got them last year at Halloween), but they have similar ones in Target's website. They come in various colors - I have seen clear, blue and assorted.
If you go to www.target.com and then search for solar light, you will find them. We had the 24 light string, but they have 50 light strings now too. They have an on/off switch, but when it is turned to on, it has a sensor that turns them on in the dark and off when in a light area.
I looked thru my pictures and the only one I have that shows the lights is way out of focus. Here it is anyway.
We use black plastic electrical tape to attach the lights to the wheelchair. The solar collector part is about 1/2 inch thick and about 3 by 5 inches and we attach that first since it has to be secure. It is attached to a stem that is supposed to go into the ground. We used the tape to attach the stem to an upright pipe on DD's wheelchair - you have to make sure it will be attached so it can be exposed to sun. Started in the back on/near one of the upright push handles.
Then, we just attached the string with lights to the pipes that make up the sides and cross pieces of the underside of DD's chair.
This is a chair like DD's
We attached the lights to the side horizontal pieces and when we got to the front, we draped the lights up to the cross brace that goes across the front of the wheelchair under the seat. Then, we continued to place the lights on the horizontal side bar on the other side of the chair.
We used about 2 inches of tape to attach each light and wound the tape around the wheelchair pipes. The electrical tape is nice because it is secure, waterproof, but removes cleanly when you need to get it off.
