Printables

Paper Lunch Bag Party Crafts

It's easy to make your own party treat sacks using free clip art (or a favorite photograph) and inexpensive paper lunch bags. All you need is a photo or large clip art picture, a color printer, a word processing program and a package of paper flat-folded lunch bags from the grocery store.

I used white paper lunch bags for this Halloween treat bag project, but I've also used brown ones in the past for other party bags. Use whatever size and color fits your printer and budget, as long as they're new and the paper lies very flat.

Printable Halloween Party Games Party Games to Print and Play

Make Your Own Party Treat Bags

Trick or treat goodie bags printed on paper lunch sacks.

Choose your favorite clip art pictures.
Meaure the height and width of a flat lunch bag - you'll be printing on the "top" side - where the bottom flap doesn't interfere with the print layout.
Use any word processing program (I used Microsoft Word) to set up your document size to the height and width of the flat folded lunch bag dimensions. Allow for a margin on top, bottom, left and right - about an inch is good.
Add your Greetings and Pictures - Create a text or picture box centered on the lunch bag document front (see picture for examples) and insert your favorite clip art. It should automaticallyl resize to the dimensions of the text box. If not, just scale it down to the size you want. You can add a border or background color, too, if you like.
Continue to insert text boxes above and/or below the picture to add each bit of greeting text, or your name - or more pictures, even a graphic border - whatever you like.
When you have a design you like, load a single bag into your printer's paper tray, taking care to position the flap of the folded bag so it will be on the underneath side when it comes through your printer.
Print your treat bags, 1 at a time!