How do you turn OFF the lights on a kid's sneaker?

Very clever solution!

Cool, you could do that with your kid's iPhone too. ^_^

TDD

Might cut down on distractions. More time for books and studies?

"Like, uh, well, you know, like, and he went... and then she went.... uh, like, rad, kewl, uh... and then she went..."

. Christ>> The sneakers arrived from Amazon and I couldn't figure out hiw to disable

It was also a clever solution when Bob F suggested it in the original thread over a year ago.

Another idiot post (M- in Europe) from homemoanershub

Stick it in the microwave.

Greg

My kids' school now prohibits light up shoes (and characters, etc.). I put he. In the old microwave set to 5 sec. After 2 sec each spaked. No more lig hts. Microwave still works fine. Perhaps for e same reason hotockets have f oil liners yet don't fry the microwave, the circuit in the shoes doesn't fr y it either.

My cousin invented the lights in shoes. I'm going to have to turn you in!

Thank you so much for this! The funny thing is I googled a solution on how to get rid of the blinking lights for my son's shoes (dress code prohibits it) and when I clicked on your picture, he has the exact shoes as the OP's pictures!

I ended up using the microwave for 5 seconds, worked like a charm. There was a little bit of smoking and rubber smell, but it's gone now. Shoes are good to go. :)

I removed the insert of the shoe...then pulled up the 2nd insert that was glued down....there were wires showing so I clipped them all with scissors then put the two insoles back in. :-) Super easy!!

Why do they put lights in sneakers? I never saw the sense to them!

But there is always a dummy waiting to blow money on something stupid like that, so I suppose thats the reason they make them...

Since you opened them, did you notice what kind of battery is in there? I'm thinking it would be a coin cell. Just curious....

Thanks for answering the question from 2011, and with no quoted text. Quite a trick.

How to turn lights off on light up tennis shoes

Remove the battery?

One "urban legend" is to run them in a microwave for a few seconds. Just not so long that they catch fire !

I saw a story about a mugger who wore shoes like that, and after he mugged someone, he was easy to follow, and they caught him.

It was a "Cops" episode. I saw it as well.

I saw it in the newspaper.

This comes a bit late and we just put our sone shoes in the microwave for 10 seconds and the lights are gone!!!