Making Kids' Telescopes for a Pirate Party

Create pirate spyglasses at your child's party to add to the pirate fun.

Have some pirate-themed crafts on hand to do at your child's pirate party. Kids can take home what they make as favors, and the craft will keep them occupied and having a good time. Include several crafts and give each kid a bag at the end of the party to take home their pirate loot. They'll be proud that they made their own favors and enjoy playing with their pirate crafts. One popular craft for pirate parties is a telescope.

Things You'll Need

• Empty paper towel rolls
• Clear plastic wrap
• Tape
• Construction paper
• Stickers

Instructions

1. Tape a piece of plastic cling wrap on one end of the paper towel roll. This will be the "glass."

2. Choose what color you want to make your spyglass. Wrap a piece of construction paper around the tube, taping the ends.

3. Add a stripe of construction paper around the end of the tube that you put the plastic wrap on. This will make it look more realistic.

4. Decorate the spyglass with stickers. Moons and stars or skulls would be good for a pirate theme.

Tips & Warnings

• A different way to make these if you don't have paper towel rolls is to just roll up a piece of construction paper into a tube and tape it.

References

• DLTK: Easy Spyglass Telescope Craft
• A To Z Kids' Stuff: Pirates