DIY Reusable Snack Bag Tutorial

Reusable snack bags are a great (and easy!) way to keep from throwing out lots of Ziploc bags. In our case, I have a little toddler who has snacks in the car & so I decided to give it a try. This bag was SUPER easy and only took about 10 minutes or less - especially once I got the hang of it.

You can use a few different fabrics for these bags - Oilcloth, laminate cotton or even choose to laminate fabric yourself. The reason I give you these specific fabric options is because these fabrics don't fray, are waterproof and EASY to cut!

In this case, I chose oilcloth. It's not the cheapest fabric to buy by any means. I got mine off of eBay but I have been told that you can find it at Joann's download the app and use the coupons to get the best deal on it. Once you have your oilcloth, lets get started!

Materials:

INSIDE: Oilcloth cut to 6" X 7 "

OUTSIDE: Oilcloth cut to 6" x 8.75"

TAB: 1.75" x 1.75" piece of ribbon, oilcloth or fabric

VELCRO: Two 4" pieces of hook & loop sew-on Velcro

Quilting clips 

1.  Cut out all your fabric pieces.



2. Take your smaller (inside) piece and lay out your velcro and I didn't quite align it with the edge, but I got super close. I made sure to use the stiff piece of velcro here on the inside piece, so that way I can attach the soft part to the top and little hands don't get scratched getting in and out of the bag. I use quilting clips to hold these pieces together since I don't want to puncture the oilcloth in any way. You can use bobby pins, binder clips etc. to hold - whatever will hold but not put holes in your bag. 



3.  Once you have your inside piece clipped on, take your outside piece and lay it face down. Fold your tab piece in half & lay your tab against the edge, pattern face down.


4. Lay your inside on top of the outside piece to line up where you should put your velcro. As you lay down the velcro, make sure that the tab is UNDERNEATH the velcro & make sure to also clip your tab down with the sewing clips so it will catch once you start sewing.


5. Take your two pieces and sew the velcro on to each piece and your pieces should look like this.

6. Put right sides together and clip with your quilting clips. You are going to sew around the 3 sides where my clips are, back stitching at the tops.


7. Once you finish sewing the 3 sides, than your fabric should look like this.

 
8. Clip your corners, turn inside out and Ta da! You're done!

This bag will hold quite a few snack crackers and it's perfect for little ones! If you make another one, you can experiment with sizes (depending on what you use it for) and you can also measure a Ziploc sandwich bag to get the size, if you were wanting one for a sandwich.