Goofy Reading Glasses

Inspired by those kooky New Years Eve 2012 glasses the kids saw in January, we made our own Goofy Reading Glasses this week with different funny words.

Materials:

toilet paper tube
ruler
scissors
three flexible drinking straws
stapler
heavy cardstock paper
utility knife*
markers
transparent tape

*Utility knives or box cutters are very sharp and should be handled only by adults.

Cut two 1-inch segments from a toilet paper tube.

Cut a 1.5-inch piece from one of the flexible straws so that the accordion fold bendy part is centered in your segment.

Staple this part between the eye rings to make the nose piece of your glasses.

Trim two flexible straws so that they’re the right length for the flexible tip to wrap around your ear and the rest of the straw to reach your temple.

Staple the nonflexible end of the straw to the outside edge of each eye ring. These will be the arms of your glasses frame which will wrap around your ears and hold the glasses in place.

Center the glasses on a piece of heavy card stock paper and trace the eyes by running a pencil around the inside of each toilet paper ring.

Use a ruler to draw a cross in the center of each eye you just traced. Then, on a safe cutting surface, run your utility knife over the crosses you drew so you end up with four triangles in the center of each eye ring.

With a pencil, write a word around the eye holes in big blocky letters so that they touch one another. For example, we wrote LOOK, using the eye holes as the Os in the word. Decorate your word with markers.

Cut around the word, so that all the letters stay connected.

Gently push the triangles in the center of the eye circles backwards, so they open through the back of the word.

With the word face down on your work surface, lay the glasses over the word so that the paper triangles are sticking up inside the eye rings.

One at a time, hold a triangle against the inside of the eye ring and attach with a 2-inch piece of transparent tape. Helpful Hint: Start by sticking about 1/4″ o f the tape to the front of the word paper, push it through the eye ring, then wrap it over the edge of the toilet paper ring to secure. Repeat for each triangle until the word is held securely to the glasses.