So you have yourself a pack of glow in the dark animal bracelets and you want to learn how to make them glow on demand. In case you’re reading this and don’t know what animal bracelets are, they are the colorful animal or theme shaped rubber bands that you see many kids and adults wearing as wristbands now.  They look like normal rubber bands while you’re wearing them but they morph into animal shapes when you take them off your wrist.

Here’s a quick and easy way to make your animal bracelets glow in the dark whenever you want.  All you need is an animal or theme shaped rubber band and a flashlight, lamp or anything else that can be used as a source of direct light.

First make sure that you really have glow in the dark animal rubber bands.  There are several kinds of animal bracelets being sold but not all of them have the ability to glow in the dark.  All the zany bandz rubber bands glow in the dark. Okay, you’ve made sure you have the right kind of animal bands.  Now all you need is a flashlight or some source of bright light.

Hold the flashlight over your animal bands for about one minute.  This will energize the glow in the dark elements of the bands.  After about 60 seconds your bands will have absorbed all the energy they need to glow in the dark.

You can cover them up with your hands to see them glow or step into a closet or dark space if you’re doing this during the daytime.

Of course if you wear your animal bracelets all day and they get sunlight during the day, they will automatically glow at night because they’ve been energized all day.

For instance there was a young girl that wore her glow in the dark animal rubber bands to a planetarium in Dallas.  When the tour guide turned off the lights so eveyone could see the stars, the little girl’s arms started to glow!  Needless to say, all the kids that were there started whispering and asking her where she bought them.  It seems that glowing in dark has it’s priveleges!

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