These fabulous free printable glasses are so much fun to make and decorate with your kids!
One night last week my smallest child was doing his best to avoid going to bed.
“I’m not going to bed… unless you wear the gwasses!”
“Ok” I said putting on the green lantern glasses, “now it’s bed time!”
Off he went to bed, but every time I even looked liked I was going to take of the glasses his eyes shot open.
“Leave. Them. On!” he demanded. By this stage I would have stood on my head if it helped him get to sleep, so I left the snazzy green glasses on and took a quick instagram selfie to record the moment for posterity.
Here’s another great free printable craft activity to try.
As I read through the funny facebook and instagram comments, my mind filled with ideas for making more fun printable glasses and I started dreaming up a plan to make some crazy printable glasses to go with my stunning green pair.
Since then my study has been littered with scraps of paper and sketches of glasses prototypes, and, after much trial and error, I finally got them right!
Now you can make as many pairs of fabulous free printable glasses as you like, and make these as crazy cool as you want!
How to Make Some Fabulous Free Printable Glasses
Everyone will love making these fun free printable glasses. Little hands may need some help with the cutting out, but everyone can get in on the decoration!
To make your own pair of crazy glasses you’ll need:
- The free printable glasses template that you can download below.
- Cardstock to print on, or paper to print the template on and cardboard to stick the paper onto.
- Scissors
- Tape
- Markers, paint, pencils, sticklers, washi tape etc for decorating.
Start by printing the crazy glasses template. You can either print straight onto some strong card, or print them on to regular paper and paste the pages onto some old cereal boxes or similar cardboard for support.
Now you have your crazy glasses ready to decorate!
We used markers, washi tape, and some diamante stickers and other stickers to make our glasses look extra fabulous! You could also use paint or pencil to add colour, and all kinds of collage material to add that extra something. I think they would look amazing with some feathers or sparkles!
Free Printable Glasses Template.
There are four different crazy glasses templates to choose from, pick your favourite, or make them all!
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. If you are printing on US ‘letter sized’ paper be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options.
Please remember that the printables at picklebums.com are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files.
I used a regular inkjet printer and matte photo paper to print the crazy glasses template.
Once you are done decorating your glasses you are ready to take some crazy glasses selfies like mine!
Share you Crazy Glasses Selfies!
We’d love to see your crazy glasses selfies!
If you make a pair of our printable glasses and share a photo on instagram, we’d love it if you’d tag us – @picklebums – so we can check out your fabulous style!
Or feel free to share a photo on my facebook page too!
If you enjoyed making these crazy glasses, you might like our holiday themed glasses crafts!
Frog Goose & Bear says
These are fantastic! My kids will DEFINITELY like this one!
Cathy says
Glamourama! Except, hmmm…. I see no photo of *you* wearing the glasses?
katepickle says
Not yet… my kids rushed off to put on a ‘show’ as soon as they were done and required all sets of glasses for their costuming, but I have plans to steal a pair for another random instagram selfie! LOL
[email protected] says
I love these Kate…thanks so much for the printable!! Those pics are so funny by the way!
katepickle says
I know.. I love those photos! Apparently that’s what you get when you ask my kids to make a crazy face!
Linda @ M&As World says
Bingo! These is our school holidays activity today! thank-you!!
carly says
Just printed them and the 3 boys are on the front porch madly creating. xx
Theresa in Texas says
OK, you’ve done it again — made me use more of my expensive printer ink, LOL! Seriously, your blog is great and I look forward to seeing it in my e-mail. I believe I already posted a comment that I would be printing out items to put in Christmas shoeboxes (a project of Samaritans Purse) and these will definitely make for a great do-it-yourself, inexpensive fun project for me to include. Thanks so much for the wonderful free printables and the fantastic instructions.
Oh, and your kids are great models!
Charmaine says
Loved the template for the glasses! I do a self-portrait lesson with my first graders using glasses cut with our Accu-cut machine. This will be so much better since the students can choose different shapes! Thanks so much!
Tashia D says
Came across your cute glasses on Pinterest. Thanks for sharing! My kids will love decorating these!
Astrid says
grazie mille di questa bella condivisione, domani con i nostri ragazzi in Italia faremmo una bella attività. bye bye maestra astrid
erin says
Hi, I’m a children’s librarian and will be using these for a Pete the Cat storytime soon! thanks!!
Rosie Herdman says
love cute fun things like these to make with grandkids. thanx
Margee says
The kids at my library will love to do these as a craft! Thanks!
JDaniel4's Mom says
What fun! These will be great to make this summer!
Amy says
Thank you so much! These cute printable glasses made getting ready for story and craft time at the library a cinch! We are reading Pete stories. I will end with the Magic Sunglasses and we will make our own stunning glasses to top things off!
jenny says
Thanks for a wonderful idea!
Lisa/SyncopatedMama says
So cute! I’m linking to this page of yours for an upcoming blog post of my own. I hope you see some new visitors come your way!
Amy K. says
We did this yesterday afternoon … It was so much fun, but nobody would pose for pictures, so you’ll have to take my word for it! :D
Amy says
So perfect for a Red Nose Day activity tomorrow with my Year Ones! Thank you! XX
Cathy Eng says
Thank you for the eyeglass patterns… Love it.
Stephanie Gray says
Thank you so much, I am using these in my 2nd grade classroom to help kiddos to monitor and clarify what they read!!
Michelle says
Thank you so much for these! The kids in my class had so much fun creating them and we are going to use it as a prop for the narrators for our Reader’s Theatre!
Princess Girl says
Thank you so much for these I’m in charge of babysitting five little kids on New Years Eve and this is a perfect project for them to do!