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Lights plus knit plus a seven-year-old is a combination that needs one conversation first.
The useful thing is that it is knitted rather than printed, so it can genuinely come back out next year if the child has not shot up in the meantime. The complication is the LEDs. Light-up jumpers run off a small battery pack, usually tucked inside the lining, and that pack must come out before the jumper goes anywhere near a washing machine — this is the single most common way these garments die. Find the pack and the off switch on the day it arrives, not at 8:15 on the morning of the event.
Also check the school's position. Plenty of schools quietly ban flashing clothing on the grounds that it is a distraction in a classroom, and some children find flashing lights genuinely uncomfortable.
Before the day
- Test the lights the moment it arrives — shipped batteries are often half dead
- Buy spares in the right size before December; they are always button cells and never in the drawer
- Remove the battery pack before washing, every time
- Show your child the off switch so they can turn it off in assembly
- Ask the school whether flashing is allowed before you commit
Our list of six things that go wrong with light-up Christmas jumpers is mostly avoidable if you read it in November.
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