Our popular ghost safety reflectors have got a new sibling! We’ve added a blue one and restocked the best-sellers white and bright green. The green is even brighter than before! Check them out at the glimling webshop and if you don’t want ghosts on your coat or bag, there are many, many more designs to choose from.
Backpack with ghost safety reflectors. Backpack from Target.
We are also excited to support American workers by manufacturing them in the USA!
Equinox is behind us and evenings are rapidly getting darker. Whether you are out on Halloween or on any other night, pedestrian safety reflectors are a great way to increase your visibility! Kids, tweens, teens and adults without reflectors are all equally difficult for drivers to see. By wearing reflectors you give drivers several extra seconds to notice you, which will help them to slow down or stop if needed.
Coming soon: Made in the USA! (and so is the scrapbooking paper by DCWV INC.)
We are super excited about being on the way to move production of some funflector® reflectors from Sweden to the USA! It makes a lot of sense to us to manufacture locally but we are also very proud to do more to put Americans to work! Future batches of our popular chubby ghost safety reflectors will be made in the USA! The funflector team
Only one week to Halloween (where did October go?) and new Halloween decorations are popping up every day in the neighborhood. Are you planning for a safe Halloween? All over the country, funflector safety reflectors are popping up in people’s mail boxes. If you want some in your’s before Halloween, please order today, tomorrow or Wednesday before noon (central time)!
Funflector Halloween safety reflectors
To make it easier and quicker to order our most popular Halloween safety reflectors, we’ve bundled the Jack O’Lantern, the white ghost and the orange cat and give you $4 off compared to buying them separately! The glimling webshop has all the details.
Modern Mom awarded funflector with a “must-have” seal 🙂
Recently, we wrote about how to attach Halloween reflectors to costumes. If you don’t want to tape the reflectors to swords and light sabers, wands or broom sticks, you can put a (strong) rubber band around and then slip the chain through. From our friend and funflector fan Beth, we got a cute duck tape candy corn candy bag. Instead of putting reflective tape on the handle, she made a loop for her funflector and taped the loop to the outside of the bag! While in craft mode, you might want to check out this milk jug skeleton by the Party Animal. We are up to five jugs, so soon, we’ll get started on ours! How is yours coming along?
Duck Tape bag with Halloween safety reflectors
The DIY milk jug skeleton by Party Animal
Have fun and safe Halloween! – the funflector team
Don’t worry, photoshop helps us keep our models safely on the ground!
“Funflector® tags are so much more fun than reflective tape, but how do I attach them to Halloween costumes?“ is a question we often get this time of year. Four times as many kids get killed in traffic on Halloween than on any other night of the year! That’s why Good Morning America urged everyone to put reflectors on Halloween Costumes. The funflector® tags will do the trick! They are high quality pedestrian reflectors, fulfilling the European standard E13356, which means they can be visible to drivers from about 400 ft.
Fun-to-wear life saver: Ghost safety reflector from our webshop. Also available in white, pink & blue
Here is a recap of what we wrote last year about attaching reflectors to Halloween costumes: The ball chains that come with funflector® tags are meant to be attached to zipper pulls and loops. So what do you do when the robe of your grim reaper has none of that?
Safety reflector season has started and the days are zipping by. Most of all we notice it because of how much earlier it gets dark every day. Here in Chicago, we are losing one minute a day. One week I pick up kids after their activities and it is not so dark. The next week it is pitch black and I’m thinking of which Halloween safety reflectors to get them tis year. Have you too been surprised how fast it goes?
Are You Ready?
I got an email today “65 Days Until Black Friday! Are You Ready?” Bah, no, I’m not. funflector.com is ready, we are already shipping orders for stocking stuffers, but not me personally. The kids are still going to school in shorts and it is hard to find (real) fall leaves to use for photo props. So how can I be ready for what’s beyond Thanksgiving? We are busy with Halloween safety. Very busy! Last week, we came across some statistics that stated that four times as many kids are killed in traffic on Halloween as on any other night during the year. Four times—that’s a lot and we don’t want to stand on the sideline to see that happen any more.
Do your kids prefer reflective tape or Halloween reflectors?
The number one Halloween hazard by far is kids being hit by cars. That’s what we were told on Good Morning America the other day where they urged everyone to attach safety reflectors on Halloween Costumes. The funflector® safety reflectors will do the trick! They are high quality reflectors, fulfilling the European standard E13356, which means they can be visible to drivers from about 500 ft. Earlier this week, we did a funflector fundraiser at a local preschool. One of the teachers, who had happened to drive by during the photo session along the highway commented: “Wow, were they bright! Now, I really understand how useful the safety reflectors are.”
We have equipped this nasty witch for Halloween with several high quality reflectors!
The ball chains that come with funflector® safety reflectors are meant to be attached to zipper pulls and loops. So what do you do when the robe of your grim reaper has none of that?
Attach Safety Reflectors with Safety Pins
Even if we don’t recommend it for everyday use, safety pins allow us to temporarily put the reflectors wherever we’d like them. Put the safety pin through the seam (through as many layers as possible) of the garment to avoid the Halloween costumes tearing and reflectors getting lost. Low down is good—that’s where headlights shine the most. On the witch’s dress, we attached it at the bottom of the side seam to let the funflector® safety reflector dangle below the hemline. With one cat on each side, she should be visible from all directions.
Our witch is wearing one of her black cats at ankle height. It dangles nicely below the hemline making her visible from multiple directions.
Attach Safety Reflectors on Mesh Material
It is easy to stick the chain through the mesh material that some costumes are made with. Put it through several layers or around a seam to avoid ripping. The witch’s hat has a large bow made from mesh material, so we just put it through several layers.
Attach safety reflectors in the mesh material. Put the chain through several layers for strength.
Attach Safety Reflectors on Belts and Straps
Many costumes have a belt. If the belt is too wide for the ball chain, put a loop made from a piece of string around the belt and slip the ball chain trough the loop. Please DO NOT replace the chain with a string! The chain is designed to break if it gets firmly hooked on something, so that the wearer doesn’t become stuck. A strong string may harm your child.
Attach Safety Reflectors on Eyelets
Our witch’s dress has some eyelets on the front which came in very handy for a few more safety reflectors.
Attach safety reflectors through the holes of any eyelets.
Attach Safety Reflectors with Tape
The ball chain can also be taped to handles of light sabers, scythes, brooms, swords or magic wands, alerting drivers when your kids are busy fending off evil spirits on the loose.
Beyond that, use your imagination and common sense to find suitable places to attach reflectors and let us know what original ways you come up with! The glimling team wishes you a fun and safe Halloween. 🙂
The girl’s story was also featured on king5.com in December last year. They visit schools to talk about their accident and what the kids can do to avoid it happen to them. Their “STAY ALERT & STAY SAFE” campaign can be found at www.stayalertstaysafe.com.
The number one Halloween safety concern: Drivers not seeing trick-or-treaters. This witch is well equipped with safety reflectors for being seen by drivers!
If you suddenly feel the urge to have more reflectors on hand for your kids this Halloween, you can still order funflector® safety reflectors in our web shop, but please don’t wait much longer. Our FREE SHIPPING includes standard mail via USPS. Please contact us if you need express shipping.
Halloween costumes rarely have zipper pulls to attach reflectors to, so later this week, we’ll offer some ideas of what to do instead.
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