Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Make your own Sun-Glasses!

The way to make these, (which is my way), is very simple with only needing a few household items. We're not making the Sun-Glasses to keep out the sun, we're making the ones that looks like the one in the picture.

Ok, this is what you'll need:

2x Pieces of A-3 sized paper
4x Skewers
Coloured Pencils
Textas
Stapler
Lead Pencil and
Sticky Tape
(I also needed something to copy off, like an image off my Laptop)

Here's what you need to do to make this, and it took me about 1 hour, but I wasn't following instructions, it was all still in my mind.

1. Pick something round to draw. Like someone’s head or the head of like a lion or something. You can also do stuff like Flags, but some of it will be cut off.
2.Fold one of your pieces of paper into thirds/fourths, then fold that in half. Cut at that fold only, so you'll have two piles of paper. Next, you staple in the top right corner, and then in the bottom left corner on both piles so all of the paper is stuck together.
3. Draw on the top of both piles of paper what you've chosen to draw, then cut them out and staple again in three spots.
4. Trace both of the drawings onto the other piece of paper, then enlarge the drawing by 1 centimetre. Cut the enlarged one out, but don't forget to colour the enlarged one in the main colour of your drawing. Retrace the drawing into the enlarged one.
5. Draw some lines on the back of each pile of paper, then cut out each strip and sticky tape the ends so you don't loose any of the inside.
6. Glue each of the strips onto the enlarged one where they'd go on. Use the retraced version which you retraced inside the enlarged one as a guide. It should look like the green sunglasses in the picture, just with uncut bits where the strips had already been cut out.
7. Cut out the uncut bits mentioned in step 6.
8. Get one of the Skewers and measure the width of the bridge of your nose. That measurement, like picture mine was 2.5cm, I'd then measure 2.5cm on the skewer 3 times, marking each 2.5cm with my Lead Pencil. I'd colour each 2.5cm the same colour, which should be the main colour of your drawing, and then cut out each 2.5cm individually. Then, sticky tape all 3 pieces together, and use that to join your two drawings together with more sticky tape.
9. Colour-in two more skewers the main colour of your drawing, or leave the skewer the same colour. Cut out two 2cm bit's of Skewer, coloured in or not, and sticky tape one to the end of one long skewer, and then sticky tape the short bit to one drawing. Do that for the other side and the other two skewers.
10. Wear it!!! You've finished, you've completed your Sun-Glasses! I hope they look like the ones in the picture! I also hope my instructions were understandable...
:D
-Just Grace