Gear
Little Four Eyes Stores
- Check out the new little four eyes store on Zazzle
A few little four eyes exclusive items, including cards to help your child celebrate their new glasses, stickers, and shirts.
A collection of items, including children’s books, from Amazon.com that can make life easier with a young child in glasses. When you order items from the little four eyes store, you help to support this site.
Little Four Eyes Free Downloads
- Little Four Eyes’ coloring pages! Download these pages for your child to color!
- The Amomofelly collection- Created by our own amomofelly, these are especially good for children who are patching and do not yet have good acuity in their unpatched eye. Click the image to download a page to print and color:
- The Meagan Nishi collection - these pages have pictures that are more detailed. If your child is patching, you may want to trace the lines with a thick marker (or glue) to so they can see (and feel) the outlines more clearly. Click the image to download a page to print and color:
- Little Four Eyes Patching Charts!Download these for your child to track how well they are doing with patching. These are created by Amomofelly. The first chart has clocks to let your child color or use stickers to show how many hours they patched that day. The second has boxes for each day of the week, so your child can fill in a full week with coloring or stickers. Click on an image to download a page to print.
- Blog Badges Check out our page of Little Four Eyes blog badgesto find a badge to add to your blog! Below are just 2 examples, we have so many more!
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More things
Below are other sites selling things for kids with glasses (mostly t-shirts and other accessories). I haven’t ordered from any of the places, so I can neither vouch for nor endorse anything listed here, but I wanted to collect them.
Little Four Eyes Pinterest Board – a bunch of members are contributing to a Pinterest board “a collection of items promoting a positive image of little ones in glasses.”
Children with Glasses – a Danish site that has collected a large number of items for children in glasses. It includes toys, accessories, glasses cases, and more. All prices include EU VAT, orders from outside of the EU will have the Danish VAT deducted from the price.
Accessories for glasses:
- Ficklets – very fun and very cute charms for kids’ glasses. A great way to give kids a way to decorate their glasses. Not for babies or toddlers, though.
- InconSPECuous – a strap to hold the glasses on, designed by a mom of a 2 year old who wears glasses. The strap is designed to be inconspicuous, easy to secure and detach, strong, and safe.
- SPEC-WRAP – colorful, protective sleeves for the earpieces and temples of glasses. An easy way to change the color of the glasses temporarily. Not recommended for children under 5.
Accessories for patches:
- Eye Doodles – eye patch stickers. These fun and colorful stickers will adhere to any adhesive eye patch. They have a great range of beautiful images.
Gear for the kids:
- WeeOnez Animal Alphabet - WeeOnez are super cute animals for each letter of the alphabet, and there’s a version of each animal wearing glasses. You can get the animal on a shirt, bib, bag, pillow, and lots more!
- Bjort & Company – the makers of the Eye Patch Kids DVD. They have t-shirts and accessories for kids with eye patches, glasses, as well as kids with special dietary needs.
- Babies with glasses – clothing to let people know that the glasses are indeed real, and they’re proud of it.
- 3 Little Monkeys – Shirts For Babies And Kids Who Wear Eyeglasses.
- Nystagmus Awareness Shop – clothing for people with nystagmus from the American Nystagmus Network. Proceeds from any sales to the American Nystagmus Network and nystagmus research.
Books, DVDs, Videos, etc:
- The Eyepatch Kids – a video with puppets that encourages kids to wear their eye patches, and explains why it’s important for kids to wear their patches.
- Our Journey with Strabismus – a book written by the parents of a young child with recurring strabismus.
Have items to add, or want to leave a review of one of the items? Leave a comment, or email ann @ shinypebble . com.








I love these coloring pages, especially the two girls on the beach! It is something our Ellie can really relate to and it’s simple enough for her to stay in the lines. I am going to print some out and take to our PO the next time I go. I will also take some to our vision therapist when I go this week! Thanks to all the artists!
Thanks Corrie. Amomofelly made the two little girls, and I agree, they’re really sweet! The one with the shovel and pail reminds me of Zoe.
Thanks for printing out and taking the coloring pages to the doctors’ offices!
Thanks Corrie =) Hopefully I’ll get some little boys made soon I actually drew them for some T-shirt iron-on transfers that I did to personalize Elly’s hand-me downs. I’m bringing a set of the coloring pages to our OP too this visit. She requested them and I’m hoping she’ll make more copies for her waiting room =)
I’d LOVE to see a picture of a boy (similar to the pail and basketball ones) for my son to color. *hint hint*
-Allison
Ha – just saw this comment =0 Is your sons picture up on the photo page? If so, please let me know who he is and I’ll see if I can get another boy coloring page up. (Ann is so sweet and does all the techno stuff for me!)
More accessories…. I got a neck strap for my son from Amazon. It’s kid sized and hold his glasses in place even in through the most intense play sessions!
Here’s the link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KPU1FS/ref=ox_ya_oh_product
Thanks Ann for letting us know about Ficklets. I just looked at the website and OMG they are adorable. Why didn’t I think of that? I’m ordering a few pairs. Now it’s just chosing which ones. They are all so cute. Kudos to the people who started that. Now glasses are really getting even more stylish. So neat. Thanks!
these are so wonderful! Love them!!!
Would you consider making some coloring pages with children wearing adhesive patches? Our little girl doesn’t have glasses, only a patch all day long…
Thanks!
Absolutely, I’ll pass along the request! The Hot Air Balloons page does have a cat with just a patch, but I’ll see about getting some more that are just patching pictures.
I was just contacted by a mom through my website (wonderbaby.org) who is looking for an organization that would help her purchase glasses for her son. Do you know of a charity that might help her? Her son wears glasses and needs a new pair, but medicaid will only pay for one pair a year. Any ideas? amber@wonderbaby.org
Thanks!
She should contact her local Lions Clubs International http://www.lionsclubs.org One of their “focuses” is: We want everyone to see a better tomorrow. That’s why we support sight programs and services including vision screenings, eye banks and eyeglass recycling. Provide eye care services to those at risk of losing their sight. And raise donations through campaigns like SightFirst and Campaign SightFirst II.
Great idea! Thanks!
Thank you Linda! Lions Club was going to be my first recommendation. VSP also has a program called “Sight for Students” that might be able to help – http://www.sightforstudents.org/html/help.html?WT.ad=body_how_to_get_help.
(edited to add): Oh, I just saw in VSP’s qualifications that you cannot be enrolled in Medicaid, which sounds like would rule out this family.
My 3 (almost 4) year old son was just diagnosed with Amblyopia and has to wear glasses. I have worn glasses/contacts since I was 11. I never took to glasses as I don’t have a strong nasal bridge and they always slid down. I was worried he would not be able to comfortably wear glasses as his face snape is like mine. I searched around for other options and found a wonderful product called Wedgees. You place them on the legs of the glasses behind the ears and it keeps the glasses from sliding. I have started wearing my own glasses with the Wedgees and they never slide, I can do cartwheels and I can hang my son upside-down and the glasses do not come off. With my long hair you can’t see them but since he has short hair you can see them a little. Just wanted to share an option.
Question, I have read that the pathways between the brain and eyes are still forming until age 6, I also heard 8-10, etc. I was told by my pediatrician that when the pathways are mature can be objectively determined. Does anyone know of a website/article that will explain to me how this is done?