Decorate Your Lunchbag: Mom 4 Real

Hi, Here Comes the Sun readers!  I’m Jessica, and I blog at Mom 4 Real.  I love to share easy craft, DIY, and decor ideas.  I have two kiddos that keep me extremely busy, and I love making things for them. Here is one of the projects that we worked on for back to school this year…

I really wanted to show you how you can take a boring ole backpack and dress it up, but the minute my little girl, Kate, saw the newest Justin Bieber backpack, that was a no go.  So instead, I am going to show you how to take a boring lunch tote and turn it into a one of a kind super cute lunchbag!

Start with any plain lunch bag.  I bought a pack of 3 for $10 at Target.  Get some things together to embellish it with.  I chose some ric-rac, a ruffled piece of fabric and buttons.  

Now grab your hot glue gun, and go to work.  I started by hot glueing a piece of ric-rac across the front.  You could use ribbon instead, or any number of things.

Next, I took a piece of ruffled fabric that I had left over and twisted it into a flower.  You could use silk flowers, or cut some out of felt to use as well.

Last, I glued two buttons in the middle.  It was so super simple, and no-one at school will have the same one!  What do you think?  Wouldn’t your little one love their own personalized lunchbag?