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Monday, April 23, 2012

Girlgeeked Glasses

Hey girls today as promised I said I was going to teach you how to make glasses to spice up your friend life or just to have fun with
What you will need
  • Kiddy sunglasses (can be purchased at your local dollar store)
  • Duct tape in all different colors and patterns (also can be purchased at your local dollar store or craft store, but is optional)
  • newspaper
  • Sharpie markers (or permanent markers)
  • A sense of creativity (you will need this to design your glasses)
  • Paper
  • Glue or tape
  • Felt (optional)
  • scissors
  • Colorful Glue (optional)
  • anything else you think would be awesome to put on you glasses (like glitter, rhinestones, etc.)
  • string (optional)
So lets begin
  1. Get your supplies and ask a parents permission (you wouldn't want you parents to be mad at you for using those sunglasses that were going to be saved for your little cousin)
  2. Lay out newspaper on a table or hard surface to make sure if you use paint or sharpie or glue that it won't end up on you kitchen table or desk
  3. Draw your design on a piece of paper so you don't have to do it later
  4. Take the glasses and pop out the "glass" part of them (you might need a parent. Although it might look easy it might not be to be those things out0
  5. wrap the colorful duct tape around the glasses rim to give it a pop (this step might make drawing on it a lot easier)
  6. Take the permanent markers and draw on you glasses according to the design on you paper
  7. take the glitter glue and draw along the lines you drew to give it that pop
  8. you can tape things on to you glasses as well like stars or hearts (just draw them on paper and cut them out and glue or tape them to your glasses
  9. If you taped or glued stuff to your glasses put a layer of tape around the whole thing to keep it together so they don't fall off
  10. Wear you glasses to a party or just around the house (if you are just getting glasses through a sleepover or get together and give them out as "I just got new glasses and I want you to have some too" party favors.It might make you feel better knowing that you need glasses but your friends have them too.)
For a fun twist try this.
What you will need
  • felt
  • 2 pieces of string
  • hot glue
  • scissors
  • the need for a mustache
  • a pencil
  1. Take your newly girlgeeked glasses and set them on the newspaper
  2. draw a mustache on the felt or you can look it up on google images
  3. cut the mustache out
  4. take the hot glue gun (ask an adult if you are younger) and glue the mustache to the string (one peice on each end)
  5. glue the string to the glasses (it might be time consuming but it works
  6. show off your mustache girlgeeked glasses to all of your jealous friends(they will be jealous because of your mustache
If you do either the girlgeeked glasses or the the girlgeeked mustache glasses take a picture of them and send it to me I would love to see it.