If you want to distract your child from gadgets and cartoons that influence the psyche, at least for a short time, invite your beloved child to do manual labor and make such a simple craft as glasses from improvised materials . If you put in a little effort and imagination, the little thing will come out quite original, and the baby will be happy to try it on.
DIY cardboard glasses
Children love to dress in dad's jacket, mom's stilettos or grandma's glasses. They just really want to feel like adults. Why not combine business with pleasure and make cardboard glasses with your child? Let him drag it around for his own pleasure, and at the same time train his fine motor skills.
Glasses made with your own hands can be useful for your child in kindergarten during the matinee, if he got the role of the chipmunk Simon from the cartoon “Alvin and the Chipmunks”, the Rabbit from “Winnie the Pooh” or some other bespectacled person. And if you are invited to a masquerade, you will have to attach a handle to your glasses.
How to make glasses from cardboard
No special preparation is required to make glasses. You can make do with what you always have on hand: cardboard, colored paper, brushes, pencils, glue, scissors and a stapler.
We'll start by looking for a template. Since the glasses are for children, it is not necessary to choose a base with round slots. You can make eyepieces in the shape of hearts, stars, with pointed or rectangular edges - whatever your imagination tells you.
The image from the template must be transferred to cardboard. It is better to make two such blanks at once for strength. And another similar detail needs to be cut out of colored paper. Don't forget to also draw and cut out two pairs of arms, having first measured the distance from the child's eyes to the ears.
Now let's start installing our product. We glue two cardboard blanks together. If the cardboard is white only on one side, then glue the back side to the back side, and then the blank will turn out white on both sides. Now you need to glue a piece of colored paper on top. All that remains is to attach the arms to the base with a stapler and you can try on the new thing.
DIY virtual reality glasses
You can make interesting and original virtual reality glasses with your own hands from scrap materials. A similar headset for a smartphone won’t cost you a penny, but it will cope with its functions at a household level. All the details are in the step-by-step instructions.
Materials
To make virtual reality glasses from cardboard, you will need:
- the cardboard itself (thick, packaging);
- printouts with templates;
- lenses for such a headset;
- sharp stationery knife;
- small mat for cutting cardboard;
- stationery erasers;
- hot glue gun and hot glue sticks;
- a thick, wide elastic band for fixing a homemade headset;
- Velcro;
- scissors.
Step 1
. You will need to carefully cut out the sketches printed on paper according to the diagram.
Step 2
. Attach the cut-out printouts to the cardstock. Please note that they need to be applied to flat parts of the cardboard without folds or so that the fold lines on the templates coincide with the folds on the cardboard itself. For the convenience of further cutting, you can trace them with a pencil along the contour and places of cutouts.
Step 3
. Cut out blanks for glasses from cardboard.
Step 4
. Insert the lenses into the holes prepared for them. In this case, I didn’t even have to buy them; they were left over from an old headset of a similar design. If your holes are slightly larger than the lenses themselves, reinforce the place where they are attached with hot glue. Work with it very carefully so that the material does not get on the surface of the lenses.
Step 5
. Bend the cardboard blanks along the fold lines indicated in the diagram and assemble them in the order shown in the photo.
Treat the joints of parts in the grooves with hot glue to strengthen the structure.
Step 6
. Attach a thick and wide elastic band to the resulting glasses for convenient fixation of the product on your head. To make it convenient to attach the elastic, sew pieces of Velcro to its ends.
Step 7
. At the top of the glasses, at the point of contact between the closing valve and the box itself, you can glue pieces of Velcro. Thus, a smartphone placed in virtual reality glasses will be securely fixed. If the valve still does not close tightly, reinforce it with a rubber band.
Step 8
. To experience the effect of glasses in practice, you need to download applications with a virtual reality effect to your smartphone.
Ready!
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Variations of children's glasses
Everything is done so quickly that you want to tinker a little more. In this case, cardboard glasses can be decorated with designs or patterns made from multi-colored paper. Or you can use your imagination and create something incredible.
Glasses-inscription
Ordinary eyepieces in glasses can be replaced with the letters “O” and made into a template in the form of a word. Draw two letters “O” side by side, connecting with a bridge for the bridge of the nose. Draw some more letters on the right and left. In fact, there are few word variants: BOOOZ, BOOR, LOOS, MOOR, ROOM. These are the names of outstanding, but not very famous people. But you can come up with your own options.
If you want to use another word with more letters, you can write it over the regular glasses template and cut it out. With these glasses, the inscription will be on top of the forehead, and this will not interfere with your view.
Next, we proceed according to the above scheme: cut it out, glue it together, attach the arms and decorate it as desired.
Carnival glasses
Pince-nez glasses are suitable for New Year's or other carnivals. Instead of arms, you will need a stick with non-sharp edges, which can be glued to the cardboard blank with gun glue.
Since we are preparing for the carnival, the glasses can be made in the form of a mask of any animal or cartoon character. You will also have to work on the decoration to make the glasses bright, colorful and attractive.
Pineapple glasses
This voluminous craft can be made when you are tired of flat models of glasses. Cut two strips of yellow paper 4 cm wide and 15 cm long. Another strip of the same width, but no more than 2 cm in length, will be needed for the bridge of the nose. And from white cardboard you can cut out the arms according to the template. Four blanks resembling pineapple leaves should be cut out of green paper.
Fold the yellow strips so that their width becomes 1 cm, and then twist them into rings and glue them. Connect the rings together with a nose bridge. Attach pineapple leaves to each ring on the right and left, after gluing the pieces together, two at a time, with the green color facing out. Now all that remains is to attach the arms with a stapler and decorate our pineapples as desired.
To keep the glasses in front of your child and not fall off, attach an elastic band to the back of the temples.
A great way to entertain your child and brighten up his leisure time is with crafts that are aimed not only at developing creative abilities, but also those that you can play with!
In this article we want to offer you a very cool children's craft - paper glasses that you can easily make with your own hands. The result is cool, fashionable, stylish, bright and very elegant paper accessories that both girls and boys will love.
Print and create a pair of cute paper glasses using our six fun-shaped glasses templates. You can make regular shaped glasses, a pair of round glasses like Harry Potter, awesome heart and star shaped glasses, flower shaped glasses and a pair of retro glasses!
Materials needed: thick A4 paper, transparent film, scissors, glue, crayons, colored pencils, markers, glitter glue, stickers, rhinestones, glitter, etc.
Print any of the templates given in the article on a sheet of A4 paper
Color the template.
If you chose a black and white template, then color them with markers, crayons or colored pencils. Use one color or make it as colorful as you like. When using paint, add only a little or no water to prevent your paper glasses from curling at the edges.
Cut out the template.
Cut out all three parts of the template. Cut out holes for the eyes.
Fold the side tabs.
The front frame has a pair of side projections, each of which is delimited by a dotted line. Fold the side tabs.
Glue the ears of the glasses to the side tabs.
Decorate your glasses with stickers, glitter glue, small paper shapes, rhinestones and other materials.
Make lenses from cellophane paper or clear film. Glue the lenses to the back of the frame.
Once the glue is dry, try on your awesome glasses.
Some tips!
Making paper glasses can be a great activity for any children's party or party. Prepare templates and materials for decorating glasses.
Print the glasses onto heavy cardstock if you plan to decorate them with heavier materials, such as buttons, small pom-poms, or wooden beads.
If you need a pair or several of these paper glasses with minimal processing and preparation, print any of the simple templates onto colored or patterned cardstock.
Print any of our stunning colored glasses onto white cardstock. Use them for parties, school events, parades or any fun event.
Make fun dots, zigzags, stripes and other simple patterns by applying paint with your fingers, a q-tip or a brush. You can also draw them with markers or crayons.
