Free Printable Cut and Paste Backpack Craft

If you’re looking for a fun and low-prep back to school craft then make sure that you grab our free printable cut and paste backpack craft for kids.

Not only does our backpack craft look great, but it’s interactive too with loads of themed school supplies that you can color, cut out and put inside the bag and in the pockets.

You can also personalise your backpack with our cut and paste sticker designs so that you can create a back to school craft that represents the things that you love.

Free Printable Backpack Craft

I know I say this a lot, but I think that this back to school craft might be one of my favourites that we’ve shared as there’s just so many cool things about it.

We’ve shared so many cut and paste crafts but this school bag craft isn’t just a flat cut and paste design but instead a backpack that kids can build and put their paper school supplies in it, making it interactive and perfect for pretend play.

We’ve also included lots of paper ‘sticker’ decorations for kids to make their own bag unique with designs including a football, animal pawprint, games controller, music note and flower.

Why You’ll Love This Back To School Craft

Our cut and paste backpack craft is perfect as a back to school craft, it can help support scissor skills and fine motor skills and can encourage imaginative play.

It’s low-prep and you can print the PDF file as many times as you like, making it perfect for classroom use as well as for making at home.

Whats Included In The Printable PDF

Our build a school bag craft is a three page PDF with all the parts you’ll need to create a backpack as well as lots of paper school supplies to place in it, making the finished craft perfect for pretend play.

The PDF is an easy to print black and white design ready for kids to color and cut out.

The first two pages are the different parts of the bag including the main body of the bag, straps, a name plate and pockets.

The third page contains the following school supplies ready to but colored and cut out as well as a range of paper stickers that can be colored in and used to decorate your school bag:

• Water bottle
• Workbook
• Pencils / crayons
• Calculator
• Eraser
• Set
• Ruler
• Sharpener
• Writing paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Apple
• Science beaker
• Magnifying glass

Craft Supplies Needed:

• Backpack craft PDF
• White paper or cardstock
• Scissors
• Glue
• Colored markers, coloring pencils or crayons

How To Make Your Backpack Craft

Start by printing your backpack craft PDF onto white paper or cardstock. Printer paper is easier to cut while cardstock will make your backpack a little more durable if you want to play with it.

Use markers, coloring pencils or crayons to color in all the parts of the backpack and the school items that you want to use with it. If you’d like to use our paper stickers to decorate your backpack then color these in too.

Use your scissors to cut out all of the parts of the backpack, you’ll find a dotted line around each item to help guide you.

As there’s quite a few pieces to this activity I decided not to cut out the stickers or school supplies until I’d finished building my backpack.

Glue the main part of the backpack onto the bag back, putting the glue around three edges as indicated.

Stick the tab of the front flap onto the back of the bag, so that it folds over the create the top part of the bag then stick the handle and straps to the back of the bag.

Glue on the bag buckles and then glue on the folded buckle loops so that you can put the buckles through the gaps.

Glue the name tag to the front of your backpack, you can add your name and class with a marker pen if you wish.

Make the backpack side pockets by folding the pocket parts and then gluing the tabs down and then glue the paper pockets to either side of the backpack.

Cut out your sticker decorations and glue these onto your backpack to decorate it then cut out the school supplies and put some of these into your backpack’s side pockets. You can also use the zip pocket at the front of your backpack.

Put the remainder of your paper school supplies into your finished backpack craft ready to play with.

More Back To School Printables

We have loads of free resources on Crafts on Sea and our free back to school printables are a great way to make sure that the first week of school is as much fun as possible.

Our all about me printable is a great way for students to share a bit about themselves with this questionaire that includes details like their favourite food and something that they’re really good at as well as room to draw a self portrait.

Download our back to school color by number for an easy activity that can help to support color or number recognition, you’ll find a color by sum option in the PDF file too.

Finally our back to school game is great if you’re looking for a quiet time activity and this low-prep two player game only needs two pieces of paper and a marker pen for you to get started.

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