Minecraft Idea: DIY Minecraft Backpacks

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.

This is how I made them:

I took a regular gray back pack.

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).

I then used some transfer tape and put the vinyl onto the back pack.

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.

I pulled off the vinyl and let it dry.

Then I colored in the face.  

And here are my boys wearing their backpacks.  

They were being so goofy while I was trying to take pictures.  I think they are just as excited about school as I am 🙂