Please go to ebay.com and look up wagon wheel lights or lamps. Some of these are worth about $100. each! If the ones you have are worth something take them down and list them on ebay and buy yourself some lighting you like with the money.

Alas, these aren't the highly sought-after kind (not real wagon wheels). Ones like these I've seen on EBay are going for around $10. Great idea to check, though!

To me a wagon wheel is going to look like a wagon wheel, unless you cover it up. You said it is for your play room; I don't know your theme, but you might consider fabric wrapping the wheel (an umbrella turned upside down) and matching shades.

Don't know what your 'theme' is but recently I've seen a lot of places using mason jars as the globes on lights. Is it for a boy or girl's play room or unisex? I'm thinking if its girls, wrap floral garland around them and hang fairies, butterflies, sparkly jewels. If its a boys room, hang super hero figurines or rockets or dinosaurs or whatever they are into. Hmmm, maybe get a fish net and hang from it with starfish and shells in the net. Or kinda make it look like a big jellyfish. I bet if you asked your kids, they'd have lots of ideas :)

I bought 2 similar idea sorta wagon wheel . I used the small solar lights in them and put them on a pole cemented in a hole in the yard . I may use another one I have and hang from a tree limb with a chain use battery tea lights or even better are the white fingertip lights I got from Amazon..little lights kids wear on fingers on Halloween..they have colors too but they do not throw as.much light. They are great for the glass light covers that are at all the thrift stores. Great for parties n just sitting outside. These types can line a walkway when u have company. These r cool because they are bright n cheap.

I posted before but what about plants. I walked by the final one I had and saw hanging plants cascading...yeah I need an intervention lol