Easy Glow In The Dark Firefly Decoration - DIY Lightning Bug Effect Halloween Prop
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- We make the easiest glow in the dark firefly decoration faux fireflies lights.
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These DIY lightning bug effect Halloween prop glow in the dark fireflies are a super easy DIY lighting effect for any outdoor holiday yard display or indoor decoration. These homemade firefly props are perfect for a Halloween home haunt that is an old haunted swamp, bog, or bayou theme. Inspired by Disneyland Pirates of the Caribbean attraction the glow in the dark props are also perfect for a theater or photo op or backdrop at parties or scenes in a short film or TH-cam video. These lightning bug prop decorations are so easy to make and are such a low cost to produce that one could litter their entire scene with all kinds of these DIY glow in the dark creepy crawlies. We share all the easy steps and material to make these fun Halloween decorations from the construction paper, glow in the dark paint, tape, string, fans, even black lights. What is so cool about the glow in the dark paint is that it charges up all day so it will work even after you turn off the black light bulbs. We compared the cheaper glow in the dark paint with a more expensive wildfire black light glow paint. It was really hard to tell the difference. We also compare using clear scotch tape to electrical tape to see if there was any reflection in the displays. We also see if there is a difference between string vs fishing line or wire. These glow in the dark decorations were so much fun to create we are sure you will enjoy the project as well.
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The blob of glow paint is ingenious and simpler than the usual grain-of-wheat bulb hot glued to a black card. I love that your recent videos try multiple approaches to the same effect and compare them (different kinds of materials, threads, paints, etc.).
Thanks so much!
As the designer of the Blue Bayou fireflies, I use a standard green 3mm LED 2.2 volt with 3 volts put through it for the perfect hue of nature.
As long as you have some outdoor blue solar lights, this effect is 100% better than than even those "magical" solar-powered lights. Not with the flickering in/out or anything, but because they actually BLOW in the breeze so well (and as it flips, it appears the light fades in/out). This is such a good budget alternative!
We'll have to take a look, thanks!
You guys are amazing. So much fun! I imagine glow in the dark orang dots over a cauldron could look like sparks or embers from a fire.
Mr. Mickles That’s a great idea!!!
That is the best and cheapest that we've seen. We've watched many videos on making these and you have definitely found the easiest and cheapest way to create this effect
This is way easier! I wasted time and money using white pipe cleaners that I trimmed to small pieces and spray painted with glow in the dark. Then I climbed a ladder and wrapped each piece around a twig or leaf. It took freaking forever! Your way is WAY smarter and easier!! TFS!!!
awesome low tech. with great results. should have used that on my swamp house a few years back.
I made some of these for up coming Halloween and of course, because of the great way you guys explained perfectly how to make them, they turned out great. However, another quote from the movie "Christmas Vacation" comes to my mind. "When is the last time I over did anything?". So I goofed around with the design a little bit. I used black thread but I used black craft foam instead of tape or paper. I added a small length of thread to the bottom of the square of craft foam, then on that thread I put a very light weight (0.2g) fishing sinker called a split shot. This would allow the Lightning Bug to still swing in the breeze, but it would increase the frequency of the spin. It really worked out well.
Hey thanks Steb that sounds awesome. That idea sounds like it would work really well. We should so try that next time we make these. Thank you for letting us know and sharing your ideas.
The beginning of the video is super relationship goals.
I've just been making some of these (by combination of being bored + UK still under lockdown) and I've found black Gaffer tape works best. It'll hold up to rain no problem but because it's a flat/matt cloth tape it doesn't reflect any light at all. Very neat trick overall.
Thanks guys! Great to have some creative new ideas in the haunt community!
That’s awesome and simple. I’ve made dozens of LED fireflys with Arduino microprocessors and a little coding. I’ve used 3mm green and gold/yellow LEDs and even Grain of Wheat mini light bulbs for model trains sets. I’ve got them hanging up in trees.
It's starting to feel more like Halloween with your tutorials again!
You two are hilarious! I love your videos and guidance on how to make Halloween more memorable
Sandy Schneider oddities knows this trick, and so do the bloodshed brothers....love your haunted mansion "busts" at the end of this video! Lol
That's awesome! I'm sure this is an old idea, we just were inspired and wanted to share.
Genius idea guys!!!!!
Super cool idea guys!
I’m trying to recreate this at home and tonight I bought a black light but it seems too bright. In your video the background was pitch black and all you saw was the fireflies. Any tips on lighting the objects? I purchase a small 18” t8 blacklight fixture
I like the mix of both wire and fish line.
If you make a tri-fold on the paper. Like a triangle shape looking down on it. You can make multiple dots on it on different sides and it makes a great effect. Also heavy weight fishing line. 30-50lb is great I found out. It spins the best. Plus you can laminate it to make it permanent waterproofed.
Im glad to see all these new videos. You should start a weekly vlog for all year round. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and just random daily stuff. Im sure your current viewers would subscribe.
Love it. Great effect and love that Spanish moss.
Hey all--I've been watching your channel for a while and you should know it makes my day when you post something new
Thank you!!
Great idea. Never seen this before. Really enjoy how much fun you all have. 👍
love this idea but I was wondering if I used green NEON paint I bought last year instead if that UV Glue, as it's only Aug. I am a tad early to try all these things ,like that fake Fire in my window I saw...just love this time of year!! now you got me going guys, yes my NEON Paint works perfectly!!
The word of the day -- Dang! LOL!! Great idea! Thank you!!
Love you guys.
Awesome idea for a craft supply version of the illusion! I'm going to try to use this method to string some eyes horizontally across my window to make some blinking eyes!!
This is so cool but just wondering if these work without a black light? Would the glow paint still work at night by itself? I want to do this as a year round thing in Florida and don’t really want to keep a black light on all the time.
As long as the painted areas receive sunlight during the day they should glow on their own for about an hour after dark. Then they would need to be recharged again.
@@HollywoodHaunter thank you!
Absolutely brilliant!! I'm not sure what I like more... your crafty Halloween ideas, or your silly personalities. You take an easy tutorial video, add a double dose of quirkiness, and voila! The perfect video for all the grown-ups to sit back and watch with a glass of wine (or a bottle, not judging). I'm a new sub, so I'm looking forward to binge watching all your videos. Looking forward to the next one! Oh... loved the Metallica shirt on little man! 🤘😆
Welcome!!! Thank you for the kind words 🎃 Our videos were much better then they have been recently so you should really have fun watching :-)
That. Was. BRILLIANT!
Love it! Thanks for sharing your creativity and your family with us!
I got to try this
So happy to see new videos from you guys. Love your content!
love seeing the child in the Metallica shirt. you're parenting correctly.
How cool! I would have never even thought of that. I'm gonna set some up in my patio.
Awesome!
Great ideas guys! The most “high tech” I’ve gotten with making a little light is a Xmas bulb removed from a string of lights with a little flat battery scotch taped to the little wires so it lights up. You could attach that to a string and you can even use a blinking bulb and probably get a firefly effect between that and a fan. I like you version though...way cheaper! :)
Fantastic idea! Very creative.
Great information Thank you thank you quick question need the black light to have the paint dot glow??????
Someone commented below that there is a paint that recharges during the day that you don't need a black light. But the paint we used does or it would only glow for a little bit. Maybe because your in Oregon you may want to pull a black light out. Just make sure you weather proof it.
Cute idea and looooove the Metallica t-shirt ! ROCK ON ! 🤘🙂👍
I don't know if your still building that witches hut but a bayou theme for the witches hut with work really well
Can't wait to try this.
I was wondering how i could use my paint for this but didn't think of how. Thanks for doing this . :D I'm so excited
This is genius!!
Great technique! Simple solution to an awesome effect!
fire flies are pretty green so i vote glow paint for sure at least here they are.
Very cool idea 👍
I did this exact same thing back in 1992, except I did eyes on the black (using blacklight paint) rather than 'fireflies' that hung on the thread, affected by a hidden, silent fan in the outside bushes ...creating eyes that appeared/disappeared in the trees of a Halloween graveyard...it worked perfectly, as the strings spun, revolved, made the eyes appear/vanish everywhere...;)
Wow!!! 🧡💚🧡💚 Love this!! You guys are brilliant!!! 💜🧡💜🧡
Awesome idea thank you for sharing 🎃💀🧟♀️👹
What glow paint did you use? I’m trying tulip brand. The fluorescent green kind.
THANKS! I am SO stealing this for our haunted trail. I might try the thin craft foam (weatherproof) and I wonder if circles cut with different hole punch patterns would work.
Let us know! 😀
You just described where I live. That’s amazing. Great job guys. I think y’all are smart and extremely cool
such a great idea and so simple too!!
Harrison was doing a great job helping out too!!!
He is an awesome helper.
Have you two ever visited Hong Kong Disney? I think you would love the Mystic Manor. I wasn't sure what I would think k of it based on the TH-cam videos and because I love the haunted Mansion. But...I was blown away by the attention to detail. Was a great experience
Wow, no we haven't. We would love to go. We are blown away with so many of the other Disney parks rides. So neat you got to visit!
Awrsome idea! You just put a drop on one side of each square, right? Not both.
This turned out so great! How funny that the low tech solutions sometimes work out best.
Great idea!
OMGOSH, sooo simple & sooo great! Thank y’all for trying the different hanging methods & materials. As always, a wonderful tutorial plus entertainment and laughs! 👍🏻😻
Brilliant!! And I have 3 whisper fans in the future projects box...And they run off a phone charger. My viewers will be walking underneath the bugs, so I may fiddle with how they are mounted. Thanks, guys!
I absolutely love this idea! We are going to do this for our big shade tree by our sitting area and just leave them to see how long they last. Maybe add a few more every year. I love doing crafting type projects but haven't been this excited about one in a very long time!
How fun.... kinda wanted to this now in Summeer
That’s a great idea and cheap to pull off.. I should do something like that but I think I’d need to use little LEDS because I don’t have any good black lights
We would love to make some LED ones too. Someone in the comments talked about a glow paint that lasts 10 hours. Maybe worth checking out 🎃
I REALLY love these, another thing is I used your guide for the dollar store tombstones to make my own and they look awesome, you're very creative
Great, another idea in going to take to my new house, Awesome 🤪🤙
Oh, ps: awesome job!!! Thank you, I think ya just saved me some $$$
You two are my Halloween heroes, besides being the cutest couple ever. Excellent tutorial! I have been wanting this effect for YEARS, but could not figure out how. Thank you!
Very inventive!
I just love y’all videos!!
You guys are so cute and work so well together and feed off each other so well with your playful banter and the little story-like images you share, that it almost seems scripted but in the best way possible, where it comes off as natural, haha! Hope that made sense and you get what I’m trying to say. Your little boy is also so adorable and must love having such fun and engaging parents! Anyway, this is such a fun idea. Thanks for sharing. Oh! And btw, has anyone ever told you, Chris, that you look an awful lot like Dean Unglert from The Bachelorette?! If you’re not familiar with who that is, just know, it’s a compliment😉
Thank you for the kind words we really appreciate that. Our videos would probably benefit if we started going by a script. They would definitely be more focused and shorter for sure. Thanks again.
Love the format of this one. I like seeing you experimenting. Also appreciate the higher production value!
I have a lot of (too much) money invested in the fancy “Firefly Magic” (small company out of Colorado) artificial LED firefly units, which look awesome and very realistic. I believe I even read somewhere that Disney (and several other theme parks) uses them, but I gotta say, the effect y’all achieved using simple items that every haunter has laying around is pretty incredible. I was surprised at how cool the effect turned out.
I remember years (decades) ago as a kid eating at a Polynesian themed restaurant in San Jose, CA, and seeing “fireflies” made with a tiny bulb (I don’t think green LEDs were even a thing back then) at the end of a semi-rigid and loosely coiled wire, and a small fan hidden in the foliage directed at the bulb & wire to give it some movement. I remember being fascinated by it since fireflies don’t exist pretty much west of around Kansas (except for a species localized in a small area of Arizona), so I never saw them growing up in California or knew what they really looked like until I started traveling years later.
Awesome video!
We would love to make some with leds and a fan blowing them around I think that would be the way to do it in our haunt but this was a simple method for those not wanting to get to crazy. thanks for the fees back. 😉
@@HollywoodHaunter I was thinking about hooking up some tiny leds as firefly's, but wasn't sure how to make it blink, Sooo
I went to utube to get ideas & saw your idea. You are a genius. KISS.
You can buy “Fairy Lights” on Ebay for less than $2. It will come with 1M (about a yard) of 10 leds attached to a battery holder that holds 3AA batterys or CR2032, or USB. Low voltage = safer for little ones. I bought the USB one because I have a couple of rechargable power packs to charge my phone & they have USB outputs. I also have some really tiny wire from a old transformer that might work as leads for the led. Go online and look up “Fairy Lights” to see what they look like.
@@danmatson8685 Cool! thank you Dan for all the information. Also I now another channel called wicked makers just posted a video not to long ago on another way to make them using solar lights that might give you some more ideas and inspiration. I will have to look up those Fair lights. Thanks for writing us 😊👍
I think the matte scotch tape will make it less reflective, I would want to know how it looks with one of those cheap black light led spotlights
Such a great idea!!
Well you guys are just the cutest couple ever ! I will be dding this to my swamp theme this year ! thanks for posting ~
Yay!!! and thank you :)
Very impressive. I've been wanting to do this and had thought I'd need to do a bunch of wiring. This is definitely getting saved! I may use the electrical tape version for Ghost Train...
This is almost the exact same method they actually use at Disneyland. They use LEDs, naturally, but they're not hooked up to any kind of mechanism. Just like the way you guys did it, they're glued to small pieces of black cardboard and blown with a fan.
You two goofballs! That ending had me so LOL. The effect looks really good.
So cool!! You guys are so dang creative. I love it!
You guys are the best. Keep up the great content and thank you for sharing.
You guys always have the BEST ideas!!
Omg...the ending hahahahaaaaa love it lol
😂😂😂
Mind blowing as always, and the ending was priceless!!
Lol! Thanks guys 👻
Great effect. I think small dots, no clear tape is the best. I've actually done this with bee lights on a stage set. This idea is fantastic for a home display. Great job! :-)
you guys are Soo cute😁
That spanish moss hanging behind you guys looks cool. There's endless amounts of it here in florida for free. There's a tree down the street from me with moss just hanging down all the way to the sidewalk!
I have bags of them for a buck at the dollar tree in my neighborhood, I used them on my tombstones this year and they look pretty awesome.
That is awesome! Ours is just plastic lol!
Also, If you wanna add some new life to old tombstones, take some paint of any color and tag it up! add some graffiti to it, makes it look like some vandlals came in and well, vandalized the cemetery.
Where did you get the plastic Spanish moss?
Great low tech idea, when I saw the title of the video I was thinking it would be 3mm leds hung from fi9ne wires, but this idea is actually cooler and a lot easier to do. Thanks again for another great tutorial guys, you're always so creative and cleaver.
Glad it surprised you 🎃
oh. my. gosh! ...you two are brilliant!...what a great low-cost idea!...i love it!...:D
Everything you guys do is just absolutely incredible. I am in awe.
P.S. Harrison is adorable, and growing up so fast!
Wicked makers made a video on how they did the LED firefly display and it’s actually really easy.
Thanks Jaye they did do a great job turned out awesome. If we make some in the future I think we would try and use a lot thinner wire and a power supply instead of the solar idea. It's a fun little project. Thanks for letting us now. 👍
Instead of glow-in-the-dark glue you might be able to add a little round circle of fluorescent yellow poster board. Just cut a circle of that out and glue it to the black electrical tape. Then it would shine pretty brightly yellow instead of green
I love this low cost easy idea. How long will the paint glow?
There are still some of the little squares tangled up in the tree branches from this video now and they still glow. We joke about it all the time. 🤣
@@HollywoodHaunter i actually meant when it gets dark how many hours do they glow.
🤣 We always left a blacklight on them but with no lights like all glow in the dark it would really glow and then fade over time and not be as bright after awhile. lenght of time varied want to say an hour pr so you could always see them but not as bright. Like I mentioned in first comment they are still glowing at night with no light to this day. I'm sure each paint is different.
Looks cool !
He totally reminds me of Joey from Friends!
Wow! What a great idea!!! You guys are just brilliant!!! If I was't so far behind this year I'd do this for sure!!!....we'll see what happens! Thanks so much!
I think I might have to do another Pirate haunt and use this! So awesome!
Yes! We miss your haunt 😃
I dig it! Am gonna do it, did you know that's basically how they made the fire flies in Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland?? True story love it gonna rock it after seeing yours this year. Am down for the count again though for a day or two got lots saw dust in my eye when a wind gust came after I was done with my cuts, my cornea is all scratched up very painful 2 hours in ER so cannot see and on meds for infection .. weeee life of a carpenter lol Keep up all the tips guys am USING THEM !!
Hey Jeana and Chris....you both always make me laugh. The end of your video is the best. Really what makes all the difference to me is all the little details like this brilliant idea of fireflies in your haunts. It is fantastic. Great idea and thanks for sharing. Also love seeing your beautiful little boy in your vlogs. Thanks again for your brilliant ideas!!
Thank you for the kind words Tina!
Awesome!!!
I like your new logo! You guys could make the first “o” in Hollywood to another skull for your little spook! Just an idea! Love the fireflies and how realistic they look!
Haha, we thought about that maybe now will have to do something 😀
❤️ Amazing! Y'all really get my creative thoughts swirling! 😱