Patriotic Paper Eyeglasses

Print out, and decorate a pair of paper glasses into a wearable patriotic eyewear for the 4th of July festivities.	Safety Tips Kids 8 years and younger should use child-safe scissors.
Materials Letter size or A4 card stock Paint, crayons or colored pencils Cellophane paper Scissors Glue Ruler Pencil Craft knife Star craft punch or star stickers/sequins

Steps

	1.	Print out either the plain or star-shaped eyeglasses templates on heavy card stock. You can use paper or light card stock but you will need to glue your print-out onto cardboard or a second sheet of card stock.
	2.	Draw evenly-spaced lines on the eyeglasses' rim to make a striped pattern. You can make either horizontal or vertical stripes (or perhaps even diagonal stripes if you like). Use the vertical dotted lines on either side of the rim as the borders for your stripes. If you would like to be more spontaneous, you can skip this drawing step and color or paint the stripes directly on the eyeglasses.
	3.	Color or paint red stripes following the lines you made in Step 2.
	4.	Color or paint the pair of temple pieces (the parts that go behind the ears) blue.
	5.	Allow your painted paper glasses to dry.
	6.	Once dry, you can cut out all three template pieces. Cut out the eyeholes on the rim as well. *After cutting, if you think that your eyeglasses are somewhat flimsy, you can still glue the template pieces onto cardboard and cut them out again.
	7.	Crease the rim's side flaps by folding them towards the back.
	8.	Unfold the flaps and glue each temple piece onto a side flap. *The pair of temple pieces may be too long for smaller kids. You may tape them temporarily, try on the glasses and trim the temple pieces along the straight end to achieve the perfect length.
	9.	Glue the second temple piece on the other side to complete your eyeglasses frame.
	10.	Punch out small stars from the white card stock scraps from Step 6 and glue these along the length of your eyeglasses' temple pieces. You can also use star stickers or star sequins.
	11.	Cut out a pair of lenses from cellophane paper and glue these at the back of the frame.
	12.	Finally, try on your patriotic paper eyeglasses.