Every month our youth ministry cancels our first small group bible study and replaces it with a social, this month we’re having a black light basketball game.
The teens are excited about the game, and so am I, but I’m also a little worried because it’s going to take a lot of black lights to fill a gym. For the past month I’ve been asking teens and parents if they have any black lights I can borrow and they’ve loaned me five 4-foot lights. . .that’s a good number if we’re going to have a black light foosball party, but it’s not even close being enough to fill a gym.
I started calling party supply stores to find out if I could rent some industrial-strength black lights, and after a couple of phone calls someone recommend I call a local music store. I was skeptical, but my desperation outweighed my skepticism. I called and spoke with one of the world’s nicest human beings, Bill. Apparently, Bill has taken care of the lights and sound in our school’s gym for various special events, so he knows the space, and has a good idea of how much light we need to fill the gym. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have any black lights . . . yet. But he said he was buying two UV canons that would be here by April. Awesome! He’s going to rent them to us for $30 each.
Now we need to find stuff that glows under a black light. I read on HowStuffWorks.com, that white t-shirts don’t glow under black lights; what actually glows is the phosphors in the detergent. I’ll have to do more research to find fun things that glow.
Here is the followup on what worked and what didn’t work at our Black Light Basketball game
