Give a kid a pair of binoculars and let their imaginations run wild… see what they see!
Lions and tigers and bears oh my! Birds and beasts and stars in the sky. Take these fun binoculars on a camping trip or to the beach and keep the kids busy hours on end for tons of summer fun. And, this is a great teaching project for recycling those cardboard toilet paper rolls.
MATERIALS NEEDED
- 2 Toilet Paper tubes
- White glue
- Rectangular sponge
- White sheet of paper
- Gift wrap yarn
- Color Sharpie or Crayon
- Single hole punch 1/4″
- wide ribbon
HERE’S HOW
- Cut two sheets of paper to fit TP tubes
- Print or write child’s name diagonally on the white sheet of paper
- Glue each sheet to TP tube
- Glue 1/4″ ribbon to bottom edge of TP tube
- Cut a one-inch square piece from the sponge
- Glue two sides of sponge to each inside upper edge of TP tubes
- Punch holes on each upper outside ends of TP tubes
- Pull gift yarn through and knot at ends
