Handmade Back to School Goodie Bag

So my kids are in love with goodie bags. I think that if I wrapped raw kale around a stick and it put it in a goodie bag, they would eat it and ask for more. Really. It's that kind of love.

I make goodie bags for the airplane (brown paper bags filled with Larabars, stickers and mini notepads), for doctor's appointments (lollipops and a little toy they have forgotten they had like a matchbox car), and for the first day of school. So far, this is what my kids will find in their backpacks on the morning of September 6.

 

My daughter S is receiving a resusable sandwich wrap, 2 fabric covered pocket notebooks, 5 super duper hero pencils, and 4 mini roles of washi tape. My son is getting the same thing, except he hates sandwiches, so I got him a reusable snack bag instead. The sandwich wrap and reusable snack bag pictured here are made my Planet Wise, but you can easily make some yourself. In the past I have used this pattern for sandwich wraps, and this one for snack bags. Just make sure when making your own that your materials are food safe. 

I feel a teeny bit guilty for buying snack bags this time around, but I made the fabric covered notebooks and pencils, so it's ok right? If you want to see how I made these simple no sew fabric covered notebooks, then check out my brand new tutorial. Once I made the first notebook I was hooked, and only stopped when I had gone through all of the blank cardboard notebooks in my stash. I think these little notebooks will be perfect for stocking stuffers, mother's day, teacher gifts, graduates, as journals...I could go on and on. So make some!

And while your at it, gussy up some pencils to go with your notebooks. I made these super duper superhero pencils using this tutorial for washi paper covered pencils. Instead of washi paper I used comic book pages, and instead of matte Mod Podge I used sparkle Mod Podge, but the process was the same. To allow the pencils to dry I leaned them up against my wall like this:

Now my kids can scribble with pencils that say "WHAM" and "POW". That is if they don't tape their fingers together with washi tape first.