When it comes to packing up a meal for school or work, finding a stylish yet practical source to do so can be challenging, but these DIY lunch containers are offering up some crafty ways to customize your lunch boxes.
While lunch bags are iconically associated with items utilized during one's younger school days, there's nothing stopping you from utilizing those handy bags when you're older. And these DIY lunch containers are perfectly suited for both kids and adults looking to take some food with them while out and about. From adorable lunch sacs that feature notebook-like designs to those that allow you to draw anything you like with a piece of chalk, these DIY lunch containers will definitely add a unique, individualized touch to any meal.
10 DIY Lunch Containers
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Leather Lunchbox Tutorials
This Wood + Faulk DIY Makes Bringing a Packed Lunch Cool
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Chic Chained Lunch Bags
Create a Stylish Faux Leather Meal Carrier with This Creative Tutorial
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Dad-Decorated Sandwich Bags
This Amazing Dad Makes Sharpie Drawings on His Kids' Lunches
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DIY Lunch Containers
Rodrigo Piwonka Cleverly Repurposes a CD Spindle for His Bagel
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Lunch Bag Art
Because Brown Bags are for Boring People
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DIY Notebook Lunch Bags
This DIY Teaches How to Make Your Own Lunch Bag for Back-to-School
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Sustainable Meal Containers
Ecolunchbox Makes Meal Holders From Organic and Fair Trade Textiles
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DIY Portable Picnics
The ‘Green Space Travel Case' Brings the Great Outdoors Inside
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Quirky Personified Lunch Bags
The 'Disney Family Fun' Paper Gargoyles Project is Great for Kids
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Chalky Meal Containers
Linda Facci's Blackboard Lunchbag is a Do-It-Yourself Project
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The Wedding Chicks Colored Sugar Recipe is Alluring and Tempting
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Daniel Mackie Colors His Feral Artwork with Beautiful Scenery
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These Marie Turnor Picnic Clutches Look Like Paper Carriers
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The HotLogic Mini Oven is a Lunch Bag that Warms Up Your Food
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Soo Kang Lee's 'Sunch' Makes Creates Lavish Lunches
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The Umbra Pratt Clutch Clip Spices up Loose Lunchbags
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Keith Negley Creates Narrative Illustrations for Life Occurences
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The Thanko Hot Box Keeps Your Meals Toasty
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The Citizenpip ‘Soup to Nuts Kit' for Kids is Waste-Free
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