Dhink children's lamps

Dhink: character night lights for children's rooms

Dhink is a Belgian brand of children's lights, owned by MTM-Gifts, a company based in Kuurne, Belgium, with teams in Hong Kong and China. Its name is a play on words – think and do, do and think – and its motto is "Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional". Dhink designs night lights and string lights for children's rooms (and for grown-ups who never quite grew up). Every design starts as a sketch on paper, moves on to 3D-printed prototypes and then goes into production with the brand's Asian teammates, and Dhink develops its own electronic mechanism for the lights.

Characters you want to keep

Dhink lights are small figures: deer, unicorns, a narwhal, a koala, a chameleon, a mermaid, a dinosaur, rockets and toy cars – a fire engine, a police car and an off-road car. They are painted in several steps, often with soft pastel gradients sprayed with an airbrush, so they look good on a shelf even with the light switched off. The string lights add rows of small figures, such as unicorns or rockets, that glow in a soft, warm light along a bed or a shelf.

Dhink at Lunares

Here you will find Dhink night lights in different sizes and characters and light strings for children's rooms.

What to check when choosing

• Power. Larger Dhink lights have a rechargeable battery charged over a USB cable; others run on AAA batteries or on button cells. Check the product page to see which type a light uses and whether batteries are included.
• Timer. Most Dhink lights switch off on their own after a set time, typically 15 minutes, so the child can fall asleep without the light staying on all night.
• Operation. Many models are switched on with a tap and change colour or brightness with further taps. That is easy for a child to use.
• Size. The smallest figures are around 10 cm tall and fit on a bedside table; XL lights are more than 25 cm tall and work as a room decoration.
• Safety. The maker states that the lights are tested to European and American standards, including CE, REACH, RoHS and, for the night lights, the EN 71 toy standard. Light strings are classed as decorative objects, not toys.