20 Glasses Coloring Pages - Free!

Glasses are an optical instrument placed on the face thanks to a bridge and two arms. This object helps us correct vision problems, with each lens specifically graded for each eye.

The exact origin of glasses is not known, but they are believed to have been invented in the 13th century in Italy, though at first it was very hard to keep the lenses on the face. Several centuries had to pass until the arms were created to hold them.

At Coloring Together we have collected the best glasses images to color. With them we are sure you will be able to have fun while you change and improve the view you have of the world. You can't miss this opportunity!

On top of that, above each glasses coloring page you will find a little fun fact that will surprise you and broaden your knowledge about these useful tools. Don't think twice! It's time to let your inner artist out.

1. Glasses are believed to have originated in the 13th century in Italy.
2. At first it was very hard to keep glasses on the face. It was not until the 18th century that the arms were created to hold them, which helped a lot so they could stay attached to the face.
3. They say that if you wear glasses while dreaming it is because you have a distorted perception of reality.
4. The first sunglasses appeared in 1929. That was possible thanks to a company specializing in eyewear, Foster Grant in Atlantic City.
5. The first polarized sunglasses appeared in 1953.
6. The first lenses ever made were for presbyopia with a convex ground lens. About a century would pass before concave lenses were created for myopia.
7. It was after the invention of the printing press that glasses began to be mass-produced and stopped being a monastic craft.
8. It was in the 18th century when the American Benjamin Franklin became the inventor of bifocal glasses.
9. It was at the beginning of the 20th century that glasses took on the shapes we know today. Before that, glasses were made of wood, bone or leather.
10. The Spanish name for glasses, 'gafas', comes from the shape of the arms that help them stay on the face, since these are curved and twisted, like the hands of a 'gafo' or leper. That is why in Spanish they came to be called 'lentes gafas', and later the name was shortened.
11. Depending on the shape they take, lenses can be convergent or divergent. This shape has different effects on the light they reflect, which produces different types of image.
12. The best way to avoid scratching your glasses is by cleaning them with a microfiber cloth.
13. Don't use alcohol to clean your glasses! Don't use any household glass cleaner either, since these can be too strong and damage the specialized material that supports the eyewear treatment for correcting vision.
14. Polycarbonate lenses are harder to scratch, since these were originally used as protective and sports lenses.
15. Lenses made with organic material are the most produced at optical shops, since they are lighter and less fragile than mineral ones.