The Ikon IR is a high output single Gobo Projector powered by a bright 80W (7500K) white LED. Includes UC IR wireless remote, 3 lens to change the beam angle, and 4 GOBO patterns. Compatible with the ADJ Airstream IR App.
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Monday, November 16, 2020
19 Tips to Celebrate a Socially Distanced Christmas
Wondering how to celebrate Christmas 2020 while social distancing? With COVID-19 still lurking about, you probably shouldn’t share the same air with ALL of your relatives and pals. But don’t panic! There’s still room to celebrate a great Christmas.
Check COVID-19 Updates
The best thing you can do while you plan your holiday celebration? Be informed. Make sure you're up to date with the latest COVID-19 news in your area.
Make a Minimal Guest List
An easy yet effective way to social distance this Christmas is to keep your dinner party guest list small, or even limited to those you live with. That may mean foregoing the usual annual bash — but that's okay! You can still celebrate with your roommates, or enjoy an intimate Christmas dinner and gift exchange with your S/O.
Backyard Dining
If you're lucky enough to live somewhere that’s temperate all year round, why not host your dinner outside? Dining outdoors can help minimize the possibility of COVID-19 transmission, so skip indoor dining if you can, and have a small Christmas party in the backyard!
Hand Out Holiday Masks
As an added source of protection, don't forget to tell your guests to wear masks this holiday season. You could even buy or make some Christmas themed masks ahead of time, and give them out as mini Christmas gifts!
Sanitize
Make sure your guests have ample access to hand sanitizer. Set up stations in each area you expect your guests to be in. Pay special attention to entranceways, as well as in and outside of bathrooms. The cleaner your hands, the better!
Send Gifts via Snail Mail
Who doesn't love getting a package delivered to their door? An easy way to social distance while exchanging gifts this Christmas is to send them in the mail! Whether you have a secret Santa planned, or intend to send little thoughts to a handful of loved ones, gather those ZIP codes, and start wrapping!
Plan a Christmas Activity
Even if your celebration will be smaller this Christmas, that doesn't mean it should be any less fun! Plan something fun you can do together while maintaining social distancing standards, like:
Build a Snowman: If it's snowy in your area on Christmas, take advantage of the outdoors and build a snowman together!
Go Caroling: Stroll through your neighborhood singing all the Christmas classics together — just make sure your family wears their masks and stays in tune!
Christmas Crafts: If you're hosting more than your household this Christmas, set up separate stations with markers, paints, scissors, or whatever it is you'll need to get creative together.
Build a Gingerbread House: As a tradition in many homes on Christmas, this fun Christmas activity lets you snack and create simultaneously. Just make sure to keep your houses separate if you have guests building too!
Family Slideshow: Gather a collection of your favorite family photos, and put them together to present in a slideshow! What better time than the holidays to think back on happy memories?
Photoshoot: Speaking of photos — make sure to get some new ones in for next year's slideshow too!
Hire a Caterer
A safe and easy way to prepare Christmas dinner is to make sure only one person is handling the food.
Hire a Bartender
As with safe food handling, you’ll want to make sure your holiday cocktails are in order too.
Make it Virtual
If celebrating with anyone outside of your household is out of the question this Christmas, have yourselves a virtual Christmas celebration instead!
Entertain the Kids
Aside from gifts and toys, consider planning a few activities for the kids to do this Christmas — especially if they aren't able to hang out with their friends or other relatives this year. Fun holiday crafts like pinecone Christmas trees or DIY Grinch slime are easy options, or even have them make their own hot chocolate bombs!
Go for a Walk
Whatever the weather, go for a Christmas walk together to get some fresh air. It's a great way to meet up with friends or family who live close by for a socially distanced hello.
Require Guests to Get Tested
If you'll be hosting more than your household this Christmas, ask your guests to get tested a day or two before the gathering. This will ensure everyone is healthy, safe, and anxiety-free!
Monday, November 9, 2020
Monday, October 26, 2020
22 Halloween Activities: Alternatives to Trick or Treating in 2020
Instead of spending Halloween night going door to door asking for candy, you have the opportunity to celebrate creatively. With alternative Halloween activities like having a scavenger hunt, organizing a trunk or treat or hiring a virtual magician, you can make this year special with these great Halloween entertainment ideas.
Here are 22 Halloween activities for you and your family if you’re not trick-or-treating this year.
Halloween Scavenger Hunt
If you decide to stay home, a scavenger hunt is one of our favorite fun alternatives to trick or treating this Halloween. Create Halloween crafts ahead of time and hide them around the house, with a map or list to guide the scavenger hunt players. Think cut-out black cats, witches, broomsticks, toy spiders and fake eyeballs. You could also treat it more like trick-or-treating and give each player a trick-or-treating bag or bucket to find hidden Halloween candies or toys.
Halloween Candy Apples
You can make them as easy or as intricate as you’d like, from simply dipping the apples into melted chocolate to turning them into monsters with marshmallow eyes and sugary fangs.
Monster Mash Freeze Dance
Using the iconic Halloween hit, Monster Mash, set up a small dance floor and play Monster Mash Freeze Dance! The idea is to freeze every time the music pauses, and whoever moves during the freeze is out! The last one dancing wins a spooky Halloween prize.
Trunk or Treat Party
Instead of having trick or treaters go door to door, this new concept invented as a safe alternative is actually the perfect outdoor Halloween party idea for social distancing this fall 2020. Here’s how this fun trick or treat idea works. Invite a bunch of families to gather in a parking lot with their car trunks decorated—you could even match the decor theme to your child’s costume. The trick or treaters walk from car to car to collect candy and see all the displays.
Magic Themed Halloween Party
If your kids love magic and illusions, make this Halloween at home magic-themed!
Psychic Themed Halloween Party
Take a peek into the future and have a night of fortune-telling and palm reading this Halloween.
Tell Ghost Stories
Depending on your child’s interest in the dark and mysterious, set up the living room or den with candles and flashlights and huddle together to tell haunting stories.
Halloween Arts and Crafts
It’s amazing what you can create with popsicle sticks, cotton balls, pipe cleaners, and construction paper.
Homemade Halloween Treats
Along with spooky candy apples, there are a variety of other Halloween treats and baked goods you can make with your kids this Halloween.
Have a Murder Mystery Party
Another great trick or treat alternative is to make this Halloween’s event a murder mystery! Hunt for clues together once each player has received their character scripts. You can assign these ahead of time to coordinate with Halloween costumes, or give them out night-of and improvise!
Host a Spooky Seance
If your kids are a little older, why not up the spook-factor a little with some help from the occult?
Haunted House Party
If you and your kids enjoy a theme park haunted house every now and then, why not create your very own? Spider webs, spooky masks, “heads” on plates and fake blood may provide those hilarious jump scares you’re looking for this Halloween. But it’s up to you how scary you make it! The best part about making your own haunted house is that you can curate it to your child’s spook-tolerance.
Jack O’Lanterns
Whether you carve a classic jack o’lantern face or even paint a black cat onto your pumpkin instead, this autumnal activity is a great source of entertainment for everyone on Halloween day.
Make sure you save the seeds so you can roast them for a snack later too!
Harry Potter Party
If your family loves Harry Potter, turn your home into Hogwarts this Halloween! Set up different stations with a sorting hat, DIY wand making, and potions class with slime and food coloring. Hide a golden snitch (which you can make easily out of a Ferrero Roche chocolate and paper wings) and award a magical prize to whoever finds it first. Weather depending, you could even set up a quidditch game in the back yard! Don’t forget Bertie Bott’s every-flavored beans and chocolate frogs.
Reading Tea Leaves
Make some loose-leaf tea for your family to drink, but be sure to tell everyone to allow their tea leaves to settle at the bottom of their cups. Look for shapes that may have formed, and have your own fortune telling session together!
Halloween Candy Jar
This simple Halloween game is great for starting the Halloween festivities. Fill a jar with jellybeans or M&Ms, and take note of everyone’s guesses! Whoever guesses closest wins a prize - or even the jar itself!
Halloween Slime
If your kid loves sensory activities, why not make your own spooky slime this Halloween? With black, green, or red coloring and objects like googly eyes or fake teeth, you can create some super spooky slime to play with.
Halloween Mystery Box
Speaking of sensory activities - the Halloween Mystery Box is great for kids who love tactile games. Turn a box into a mysterious treasure chest and fill it with strange items that are interesting to touch - like slime, gummy eyeballs, and candy. The idea is to feel around the box blindfolded and try to guess what each item is. After each correct guess, award a Halloween treat or prize!
Halloween Bingo
Bingo is a fun and easy game the whole family can play. Use candy corn, M&Ms or skittles as markers, and make sure you have a fun Halloween playlist to enjoy while you play the game.
Pumpkin-Spiced Hot Chocolate
Stock up on cinnamon sticks and spices and prepare a tasty treat everyone can enjoy. Don’t forget the whipped cream!
Halloween Coloring Pages
An easy yet effective Halloween activity for kids is Halloween coloring!
Halloween Themed Movie Night
There’s nothing that gets you into the Halloween spirit like a fun Halloween movie. You can even extend your viewing to other friends or family by watching together on Netflix Party! However you choose to watch, the options for kid’s Halloween movies are vast. The Adam’s Family, Casper, Hocus Pocus, Nightmare Before Christmas, Halloweentown, The Little Vampire, Frankenweenie, Hotel Transylvania, and Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween are some great family Halloween films to consider!
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Thursday, October 8, 2020
12 Virtual Thanksgiving Celebration Ideas
Need a little inspiration to get the ball of stuffing on your plate rolling? Despite the circumstances, we've got a few tips and tricks up our sleeves to ensure you enjoy a little quality time together this Thanksgiving.
Here are 12 ideas to help you celebrate a Happy Thanksgiving 2020 virtually.
Send Invites
Invite your family for a virtual Thanksgiving celebration. You can do so digitally through a simple text or email, or with an invite curated by a specialty website.
Need an element that isn't digital? Craft your own invitations with old fashioned paper, scissors, and glue instead. DIY invitations are also a great way to keep the kids occupied for the weekend. Hand-shape turkeys? Crayon leaf-rubbings? Your kids will love it, plus it's a lovely keepsake for family members you haven't seen in a while.
Plan an Activity
Taking turns catching up is nice and all, but why not liven up your virtual Thanksgiving with something to do? Here are a few fun virtual party ideas you could use:
Play a Game
An easy way to find amusement during a virtual celebration is with a game.
Talent Show
This one's pretty self-explanatory. Get each of your family members to prepare a short showcase of one of their talents! Calling all jugglers, pianists, and moonwalkers. And don't forget to include your pets! Show off the tricks your dogs, cats, lizards, and hedgehogs can do so they can be a part of the celebration too.
Share a Workshop
Know how to bake the perfect apple pie? How to perfectly cook a turkey over a fire? Share your expertise with your loved ones, or even hire a professional to teach you all something new.
Trivia Night
Here's an amusing way to show your family how many random and hilarious facts you know. Whether you choose a trivia theme like geography, Harry Potter, local history, or a homemade family-themed trivia game - it's sure to be a hit. If nothing else, y'all will likely learn a thing or two you didn't know before!
Family History
What better time than Thanksgiving to look into your family's roots? As a way of giving gratitude to your ancestors, learn more about them.
View a slideshow of family photos to feel closer to your loved ones while celebrating virtually. Ask each household to provide a handful of favorite photos to include, that way everyone is sure to be included.
Feed the nostalgia and pair your slideshow with a few home videos too! It's nice to reminisce together, especially during a time when we can't all be together. Be sure to take a few screenshots of the virtual celebration, to add fond memories of this whacky time to future slideshows.
Host a Virtual Thanksgiving Field Trip
If your kids haven't already experienced it with school, why not host the virtual field trip during your Thanksgiving celebration? Take a peek into what life was like for colonists and First Nations in the 1600s, and learn a little about the history of Thanksgiving.
Share a Thanksgiving Meal
Obviously, Thanksgiving dinners are legendary. So you're going to have to eat together, even if you're apart. This is Thanksgiving after all! Exchange recipes ahead of time so no one misses out on anyone's signature dish this year. Don't forget the candied yams!
Make an Autumnal Beverage
Whether you decide on a hot toddy, a pumpkin brew, a spiced latte, or simply some apple cider - let your family know what's in your cup! You could even make a contest out of who can make the most extravagant looking autumnal drink. Think fall colors, whipped cream, cloves, and cinnamon!
Say Thanks
What is Thanksgiving without going around the virtual table to say one thing you're thankful for? Cringey as it is, it's one part of the modern Thanksgiving tradition that ought to continue. Because we have a lot to be thankful for - especially when it comes to family and friends.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
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