30+ Lunch Bags & Accessories To Make

DIY Recipe Sheet Fabric Lunch Sack: Nifty lunch sacks made with vintage recipes printed on fabric, such a creative idea and a great way to preserve your favorite vintage recipes!

With Webbing Strap: This bag is fully lined, insulated and fastens with a magnetic snap at the top. Free pattern download via pdf.

Easy Tote: How cute is this, it looks just like a mini-tote bag! The bag features plenty of room to hold water bottles and plastic food containers. Pattern available via free pdf download.

Zippered Top: Features a generous size with sturdy handle made with webbing and zippered top closure.

Sack Tutorial: Lined with PUL or some other kind of plastic fabric to make it easy to wipe down (and even throw in the wash). Curved top flap with velcro closure.

Felted Brown Bag Pattern (Knitting): Modeled after the paper lunch bag, this knitted number is adorable! Fold over top with a purse fastener or button closure.

Pretty Linen: Simple bag that features a lovely row of fabric patches, fold top with snaps closure.

Square Bottom Hobo Sack: Very cute lined bag that is tied closed “hobo-style”.

Made With A Placemat: Now this is clever! Not only can you tote your lunch around with this bag, it folds out into a placemat complete with utensil holder.

Apple Printed: Make a drawstring bag out of old jeans, apple design is stamped on with a cut apple and some fabric paint.

Back To School Bag: Cute fabric bag with fold over flap and button closure. The tutorial for making the bag is free but if you want the embroidery design, there is a cost to purchase it.

Mushroom or Owl Sacks: Very cute character bags, nice set of instructions available for making your own.

Recycled Juice Pouch: Now here’s something that turns “trash” into “treasure”…sew together washed & cleaned juice pouches to make a nifty lunch sack. Ribbon handle with velcro closure. Cute & colorful!

Insulated: A washable, reversible and insulated bag, neat feature with one handle longer than the other to pull through.

Upholstery Fabric Bag: Use a heavier fabric like upholstery fabric for a sturdier bag and finish with bias tape.

Bento Box Carrier: Tote your lunch in style with this carrier, free pattern download (pdf). Intended for dry goods only.

Insulated: An insulated bag perfect for toting lunches, looks like two separate pieces but the drawstring lining is attached. Free pdf download.

Grocery Bag Style (Fabric): A nice roomy bag with handles that is made from fabric…pattern is a plastic grocery bag.

Reusable Container: Made from an empty plastic milk jug! Secured in place with Velcro Dots.

Insulated With Strap Buckle: Made with laminated cotton, thermal batting, PUL waterproof lining, polyester webbing, 1″ side release buckle, fusible seam tape and double fold bias binding.

Notebook Style: Use striped canvas fabric to make this simple yet creative bag that closes with a jumbo clip.

Simple Bento Bag: A drawstring bag with a twist, customized to fit a bento lunch box and embellished with bows if you like.

Cute Enough To Eat: Made with two complimentary fabrics, Insul bright, belting and features a button & loop closure.

Oilcloth: Lined with thin batting and plastic fabric (designer of this tutorial used shower curtain material), has a velcro strip closure.

Make Reusable Sandwich Wrap: Made with polyurethane laminated fabric and features a velcro closure. Free pattern template download available (pdf).

DIY Reusable Set: Two quick tutorials for making a lunch bag (made out of old jeans) and a sandwich wrap (fabric napkin with velcro closure).

Fabric Napkin Tutorial: This is a great way to cut back on paper and use some fabric scraps, a nice partner to reusable lunch bags.

Reusable Sandwich & Snack Bags: Lined with freezer safe plastic bags, keeps items tucked inside by a foldover tuck.

Reusable Snack Bags: Pouch style bags with velcro closure.

Reusable Sandwich Bags: Cute! Made using a piece of fabric and pocket cut from khaki pants and features velcro closure.

Reusable Snack Bags: Made using material from a vinyl tablecloth, has a velcro closure and can feature a “window” so you can see what’s in the bag.

Sandwich Cozy: Fabric wrap with velcro closure, lined with fusible interfacing.

Napkins: Sew small fabric napkins to tuck into your child’s lunch kit, attach personalized labels to keep track of them (optional).

Snack Bag Tutorial: Neat bag that reuses mylar packaging from commercial snack foods. Free pdf pattern download (includes template).

Zipped Pouches: Make small fabric pouches lined with wipeable plastic table cloth pieces, zips closed.