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Minecraft Idea: DIY Minecraft Backpacks

August 26, 2014 by Kaysi 5 Comments

Today is the first day of school!!  Woohoo!!  I’m so excited.  Three of my boys are now in elementary school.  When we were shopping for backpacks I was looking at all of the different characters and saw that they were around $20, yikes!!  I told my boys that they could pick out a back pack but if they picked out a plain one (they were only $10) that I would turn them into Minecraft backpacks.  Two of them liked that idea, so I made them some awesome Minecraft back packs.
DIY Minecraft BackPack
This is how I made them:
I took a regular gray back pack.
DIY Minecraft BackPack (4)
Using my Silhouette CAMEO, I cut some creepers and an endermen.  I also rearranged some squares into their names.  I then peeled away the vinyl and left the excess vinyl (the stuff that you would usually pull off).
DIY Minecraft BackPack (3)
I then used some transfer tape and put the vinyl onto the back pack.
DIY Minecraft BackPack (5)
I then painted the creeper and name.  Since the back pack didn’t lay flat, it was a little tricky to get perfect lines on the paint.  But it still looked good.
DIY Minecraft BackPack (6)
I pulled off the vinyl and let it dry.
DIY Minecraft BackPack (7)
Then I colored in the face.  
DIY Minecraft BackPack (8)
And here are my boys wearing their backpacks.  
DIY Minecraft BackPack (12)
They were being so goofy while I was trying to take pictures.  I think they are just as excited about school as I am 🙂
DIY Minecraft BackPack (16)
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  1. Cindy Lloyd

    October 13, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    These are so cute! How well did the paint hold up? I'm so afraid that the paint will peel right off, or simply fall off.

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  2. Kaysi

    October 13, 2015 at 8:09 pm

    The paint did just fine! It lasted the whole school year (the backpacks however did not, the zippers frayed and broke)

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