Thread: Help with Lights for Sidewalk???

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Anybody have any inexpensive ways to light up a sidewalk for the TOT's? I want to line the edge of the sidewalk. I have a couple strings of Blacklights i was gonna use and just lay them on the ground to line the sidewalk, but im afraid of kids stepping on them or the lights getting too hot. What do you use? Or any ideas of using something to prop the string of lights up on along the sidewalk?? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

You can use luminaries. Get some light colored paper bags, fill them with sand or soil and stick a votive candle in each. Line your path with them.

Thanks for the idea! I actually just got back from Michaels and Home Depot and found some Light Stakes in the Xmas section for 1.99! Holds 25 lights, the little ones of the C9s like i have. So i went with the stakes. Exactly what i needed! And cheep! But thanks for the idea, may have to use them for Xmas :-)

I have a short pathway that has some of that border grass that hangs over the edge. I got some extra long glow sticks and stuck tucked them along the edge. A light shot of fog from the fog machine gave the sidewalk a nice eerie glow.

I think I'd like to make some of those solar powered walkway lights for halloween. They sell a 'groundbreaker' zombie guy that's holding a solar powered light, but it's pretty expensive. I think I could make one cheaper. Have two or three of those guys along the path. That's my goal.

Rope lights are bright and make a nice straight line when staked into the ground next to a side walk.

Cassie 7, beat me to it. I was going to suggest rope lights.

If they are to bright you can put them on a dimmer.

I just made one (dimmer) for lighting up a witch, using a 100 watt flood bulb, dimmed to just about half. Great effect.

Greetings Kenpilot,

I use those Xmas stakes for the C-9 lights along my sidewalk & driveway and they work great. Its pretty dark where I live so they look good at night. If you open to the link listed below here in picturetrail scroll down to the album called "Halloween Outdoors 2006" there are several pictures in there of how they look.

At our house we call this "Senior Citizen Decorating" cause we leave the stakes in the ground for Xmas & just change out the bulbs.

Mistress Muffy

We've always gotten the best results from the cheapest things. We went to the woods and cut a bunch of forked sticks (Y shaped), stuck them all along the pathway, and set our lights in the Y. They're off the ground so they don't get stepped on, and the sticks look kind of creepy, especially if you find ones with lots of little branches sticking here and there that you can string spider web and spiders on. We also tied creepy looking dried weeds to the sticks, like burdocks and milk weed pods, which were silhouetted by the lights. A great look for free!

We have used rope lights over the past 2 years. Red. They work great...add some more creepiness to the display, yet the light cuts through the fog and darkness enough for everyone to see the path and make it out "safely" (besides the scare I give them).

FYI...to keep the lights in-place, I have cut wire hangers into small tie-downs (straight with a curve at one end). I stake the rope lights down around my path and it keeps the lights from being kicked out of place, blown away, etc.