Fall has arrived, bringing with it back-to-school shopping, pumpkin spiced lattes, and of course, planning for the holidays. Halloween costumes, faux fall leaves, and cinnamon sticks may already be on your shopping list. Below, we've come up with some creative ways you can use the LED lights on your chair to enhance a Halloween costume or light up the upcoming holiday season.
1. Enhance Your Halloween Costume
Bright wayfinding and colored lights on a power wheelchair can be a great way to enhance a Halloween costume. Orange or purple lights can match seasonal themes like pumpkins or spooky characters, while red or green lights can support costumes of science fiction characters. These lights help the costume stand out in low-light settings and make the wheelchair part of the overall look. They also improve visibility during nighttime events like trick-or-treating, which can add both style and safety.
2. Make Shorter Days Longer
3. Lights to Match the Theme
Regular and colored LED lights can make any type of fall party more thematic. You can create spooky shadows by parking in front of carboard cutouts or different objects and turning on your bright wayfinding lights. Purple and green lights can create a scary atmosphere. Red lights can create a festive atmosphere as fall turns to winter and the holidays arrive.
As the days get colder and the nights cozier, you can add to the ambiance of movie night with colored lights to match. For science fiction, go green or blue; horror red; adventure orange; fantasy purple.
4. Evening Reading Nook
Use the bright wayfinding lights to illuminate a cozy reading corner, whether indoors or outside. Position your chair near a favorite book spot and use the lights to help you see pages clearly as the sun sets. Colored lights can add a calming ambiance. You can try soft blue or warm amber for a relaxing mood.
5. Root For Your Team
As sure as the leaves will fall from the trees, so too will the football and hockey seasons begin. Whether you light up your chair to support your team colors in person or from at home, LED lights will immediately establish your fandom. With endless color possibilities, chances are you'll find a color that matches your degree of love for your team.
You can also match or coordinate the color of your wheelchair shroud and hub caps to delve even deeper into celebrating your team.
And if you do end up going to a sporting event in person, the lights may help you navigate the sea of people and low light stadium thoroughfares.
6. Roast Smores in the Light
It will soon start to get colder in some parts of the world, meaning that the campfires are sure to come out, complete with the smell of smoke, hot dogs, and, of course, smores. The LED lights can help you see what you're doing and avoid getting too close to the fire or other obstacles, whether it's firewood, extra layers, or camp chairs. It's sure to help your friends too, who might need extra light to set up and break down the fire.
If you want some soft light, you could consider switching to colored lights, like red, orange, or yellow to match the shadows cast by the firelight.
Whether you're celebrating Halloween, enjoying crisp fall evenings, or preparing for the holidays ahead, your wheelchair’s lights can help you stay safe, get creative, and make the most of everything this season has to offer.
Hawken Miller
Content Marketing Specialist
Before joining Permobil as content marketing specialist, Hawken was a content strategist for the nonprofit CureDuchenne, creating blogs, emails, and social media content for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy community. For most of his life before that, he worked as a journalist, writing feature stories for BioNews, and reporting on the video game and esports beat for The Washington Post. Following his passion for writing, Hawken graduated from journalism school at the University of Southern California.