How to make the coolest brown-bag lunch in class

My son’s Spider-Man lunch box finally died after nearly four months of continuous, valiant service. It was recycled with honors while Taps played, gently.

He’s been brown-bagging it since then and as I’m the designated lunch builder I’ve taken it upon myself to draw a fun design on each one along with his name while my coffee brews. It’s usually some combination of astronaut or pirate or enchanted animal enjoying his lunch in an exotic locale and then considerately throwing away the bag.

And then it hit me: can I run a brown paper sack through my inkjet printer? Here’s the result on the first try:

Not too shabby, eh? I found the clipart here and popped it into a 5x11 document and printed it. The bag jammed at first but hitting the form feed button got it through. My printer seems okay but no promises that yours won't jam, catch on fire, and burn down your house if you try this. Fun, though. The final version has his name on it in a calligraphic font. I haven't shown it to him yet but I doubt if it'll matter one bit to him what I put inside of it tomorrow morning.

A better way to mass produce these without destroying your printer would probably be to buy large stickable sheet labels and print on those instead.

Comments

Claus Valca on 2007-12-17 19:16:42 wrote: Brilliant!
Kevin on 2007-12-17 20:26:47 wrote: That’s awesome. I will have to do this a few times. I usually just doodle something on the bag. It usually ends being drawings of people I know…then I add a cape to their outfit and make up a super hero name.
Elaine on 2007-12-17 21:52:04 wrote: You are so craftay! So sweet to see a Dad reaching to his creative side. He’s gonna love it!
Laura on 2007-12-18 14:48:22 wrote: Genius ! AS My Boy is systematically destroying his second lunchbox since August, I’m going to have to give this a try !
s’mee on 2007-12-19 21:56:35 wrote: You are such a cool dad.