How to make personalised book bags - Arts, Crafts and DIY

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Now you know how to make personalised book bags, you can call your self SUPER-MUM! a great thing to do with the kids in the holidays that they can show off at school!

Material

2 pieces of coloured fabric
1 set transferable iron on letters
1 strip of patterned fabric (I used owls)
1 needle and thread / sewing machine
1 scissors
1 iron
2 Draw strings

Method

First cut out a rectangle of fabric (when folded in half this will need to be the size you would like your bag to be.
Lay out the fabric good side up and stitch/ glue on your band of patterned / designed cloth decoration along the bottom of the longer edge.
Before you stitch up into a bag stitch in your draw strings along to the other long edge. TIP : Make sure you tie loops or knots at the end of the draw strings so they don't get pulled out!
Now fold your rectangle in half to form a square (I fold it so the patterned fabric is facing in so i can turn it the right way round once stitched)
stitch along the bottom edge (by the patterned strip) and up the side edge to just below the draw string.
Turn the right way round
Iron on your kids names where you want them on the bag and your done!

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- hazel
- 18 Feb 2014
  12:55 pm

150 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 06 Feb 2024
    12:43 pm
Very cute idea. One day i might get to make these for grandchildren

- - mom492462 said
  - 01 Apr 2023
    10:04 am
thankyou for giving me a wonderful light buld idea to upcycle my kids dull library bags

- - shanika said
  - 11 Feb 2021
    5:32 am
This is so beautiful.I have made couple of this before.

- - Mom466555 said
  - 06 Feb 2021
    5:04 pm
Aww these are adorable

- - tessie said
  - 03 Feb 2021
    1:37 pm
These look so cute and no-one can mix up which is their bag. I love them and so simple to make too.

- - rovermum said
  - 03 Feb 2021
    9:27 am
These are so cute and such a clever craft idea… even for someone like me who is not crafty-minded.

- - mom112217 said
  - 02 Feb 2021
    8:25 am
Love the owls!

- - mom176887 said
  - 01 Feb 2021
    8:35 pm
Sounds so simple!looks great too… amazing idea

- - mom110120 said
  - 01 Feb 2021
    8:19 pm
These are so adorable

- - Kate Sander said
  - 12 Jan 2021
    4:05 pm
I know my girls would love these and even more being able to make them too, they’d be so proud of themselves. This seems like another fun activity.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 16 Oct 2020
    2:28 pm
The kids would love these

- - Ellen said
  - 24 May 2020
    8:12 am
Cute ! Instead of iron on letters you can applique letter from rests of material. Instead of a strip of patterned fabric you could make an applique from a drawing of your child again from rests of material.

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 30 Apr 2020
    3:03 pm
These book bags look so cute

- - Petal53 said
  - 29 Apr 2020
    8:52 am
Now this is something simple I can do and I have in the past. The bags can be used for all sorts of things.

- - mom462038 said
  - 18 Apr 2020
    5:39 pm
These look great and so necessary to help younger kids take care of library books. No confusing who’s book vag belongs to your kids either

- - mom152736 said
  - 11 Sep 2019
    1:40 pm
i made one for my 4 year old..he’s so happy and takes it to his daycare every single day now.

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 26 Aug 2019
    5:10 pm
these are so beautiful what a great idea

- - mom152736 said
  - 23 Jul 2019
    3:57 pm
so prettty!!! love them.

- - MrsA said
  - 13 Mar 2019
    2:45 pm
These are beautiful. My sister just bought personalised library bags for my children for Christmas but I will keep these in mind for when they need new ones.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 13 Mar 2019
    8:26 am
Perfect for back to school