Solar Skeleton Stake Lights for Halloween, Purple, Green or Orange Glow

A bone-white skeleton on a garden stake, lit from inside its ribs and spine in purple, green or orange, with a small round solar panel at its feet that charges it through the day. You push it into the lawn once, and from then on it looks after itself.

No extension cord across the grass. No outlet to hunt for. No going out in the cold every evening to switch it on.

Most yard decorations go dark at the one hour anybody sees them

Think about when your yard actually gets looked at in October. It is not the Saturday afternoon you spent putting things out, it is after dark, when the kids come up the path with their bags and the neighbors walk the dog past your gate. By then a plastic tombstone or an unlit skeleton is a dim shape at the edge of the porch light, and most people walk straight past it.

The decorations that do get noticed are the ones that light up. The trouble is that most of those need a cord, and a cord in the lawn means a socket, a trip hazard and a mower to steer around for a month. A solar stake skips all of that. The light lives in the figure and the power comes from the panel under it.

The glow comes from inside the bones

The skeleton is molded with a full ribcage, a column of vertebrae, a pelvis and long hanging arms and legs, and the LEDs sit inside it rather than on a separate lamp. When it comes on, the color fills the ribs, runs down the spine and pools in the pelvis.

The top of the skull stays pale on all three, and so do most of the arm and leg bones. That contrast is what makes it read as a skeleton from the sidewalk instead of a colored blur, because the head and the long bones keep their shape against the lit chest. The detail differs by color: on the orange one the eye sockets light up as well, and on the green one the forearms and shins glow along with the ribs.

The sun does the charging and the dark does the rest

The solar panel charges through the day, and the light comes on by itself at night. There is a switch on the back of the panel, and you turn it on once before the first night. Put it where the panel gets direct sun, because a stake in deep shade all day has less to give after dark.

It assembles by hand and the pointed stake pushes into soil, so it goes in a flowerbed, along the edge of a path or in the middle of the lawn with no wiring at all. It is built to resist rain and outdoor moisture, though it should never sit in standing water.

Which one to pick

Purple is the classic haunted-house color and it looks right almost anywhere. Green reads as eerie and a little toxic, which suits a graveyard corner. Orange is the warmest of the three and sits nicely beside real pumpkins on the steps.

The Set of Three gives you one of each, and it works best spread along a path or across a flowerbed, where the three colors show up one after another as people walk toward the door.

Push it in at the start of October and it comes on by itself every night until you pull it up again.

Specifications

Light color: Purple, green or orange, one color per light

Set of Three: One purple, one green and one orange light

Figure: Pale bone-white molded skeleton. The lit ribcage, spine and pelvis take on the color of the light

Light source: LED, built into the figure

Power: Solar panel on the stake, charged by daylight

Operation: Comes on automatically at night

Switch: On the back of the solar panel. Turn it on before first use

Material: PVC and plastic

Weather: Resists rain and outdoor moisture. Do not submerge

Installation: Assembles by hand and pushes into soil. No wiring

Placement: The solar panel needs direct sunlight to charge well

Intended use: Outdoor decoration for paths, lawns, flowerbeds and porches

Package Includes

1x Solar Skeleton Stake Light, in the color you choose

Set of Three: 3x Solar Skeleton Stake Lights, one purple, one green and one orange