Making a trick or treat bag can be a fun way to personalize your kid’s Halloween experience. Plus, by using a light-colored bag and bright heat transfer vinyl it can also add safety for the fun night!
My favorite thing about my Cricut Maker is my ability to customize almost any product for my family. We’ve done notebooks and water bottles, Disney T-Shirts and now I wanted to make my daughter something fun for Halloween. We used to do family costumes, but now I have ornery teenagers who don’t want to SO, a trick or treat bag seemed like my best option.
Of course, we couldn’t do just ONE side, we wanted TWO sides.
The good news is that Cricut Access has SO many cute images. The good news is that you can combine the images they have — like we did for a SUPER cute design. I’m excited to show it to you!
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Supplies:
- A Cricut Machine (I used the Maker, but you could also use their Air line as well)
- Cricut Iron-On Vinyl — it has a strong bond guarantee!
- A bag to put the iron on (you could use their infusible ink tote bag), I got mine a local craft store like this.
- An Easy Press, heat press, or iron
- Weeding tools
Here’s how I did it:
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These are the designs I used on the bag.
It said I needed a larger cutting mat, but it worked just fine. I had plenty of vinyl for the thing I was cutting, so just an FYI if that pops up for you!
The weeding pick is SO important for intricate designs like the spider web — BUY IT! 🙂
Be mindful of any lumps or bumps that the bag has, as that can make it hard for the press to adhere to the bag (this is the time that the new mini easy press might come in handy)
It says you can peel it while the vinyl is still warm, but I’d wait longer than it says (especially on these tote bags — I feel like they might be sprayed with something that doesn’t allow it to adhere as well). It often works better.
Also, with these bags, you might have to provide a firmer pressure on the Easy Press.
Since we did 2 layers, I put a heat protective sheet in the “bag” area. That way I didn’t hurt the other design.
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Grimm says
So what is your daughter going to be this Halloween?
I love easy costumes for Halloween. I usually add them to my girls’ dress-up trunks after they go trick-or-treating so they can enjoy them all year. Last year they went as a cat and mouse. Just leggings and a long sleeve shirt with stretch gloves and ears on a headband. I made the ears and everyone in the family had a pair (my husband had wolf ears and tail I had calico ears.)
This year I went more practical for our 8 year old. She is going as Coraline from the movie so I bought new rain boots and a new raincoat in sizes a tad bigger than she wears so she can use them down the road. But the wig is new so she can run around playing with that once Halloween has past. My 3 year old is dressing as a ‘Queen Bee’. I got a thrifted black and yellow stripe dress and added the bee wings and a crown from her dress-up trunk. The black leotard is a hand-me-down from her sister’s ladybug costume (from when she was 3) and the tights and shoes are new.
I’d rather go easy on the Halloween costumes and save my creative costume making for their Disney princess dresses. Plus I’d have to start sewing and fabric shopping after Christmas to have the big detailed costumes done for Halloween. I tried it when my oldest was younger and the youngest was still a dream. I was able to do more sewing then but now we homeschool and I can only have time to myself to sew on the weekends when my husband is home to take the girls (keep them in line so I can pull out the machines and hole myself in the spare room). Plus I have my hands full with their Elsa/Anna dresses for our Christmas Disney trip. I thought is was a good Idea to do all the crewel embroidery by hand!
Hilary Erickson says
She’s going to be a flapper. We found it at Goodwill. 🙂 I love how much you do though, I used to make more, but I just don’t have it in me anymore!