Tired of the usual craft paper bags? Do you want to make a solid and beautiful paper bag or gift packaging? Today we will share some simple DIY paper bag tutorials to teach you how to turn waste paper into treasure. Change outdated magazines, newspapers, or handmade paper into a decorative and unique packaging.

Simple Ways To DIY Paper Packaging Bags

Nowadays, many business industries changed plastic bags into paper bags in order to make a contribution to protecting the environment. Paper gift bag packaging is not only an economical but environmentally friendly packaging method for most people. What’s more, you can do it yourself to make bag packaging only by follow our DIY paper bags guide. Only 9 simple steps to finish  paper wraps:

1. Cut out a piece of 24cm * 38cm paper. It’s better to use paper with color and pattern. Of course, newspaper or wrapping paper can also be used

2. Lay the cut paper flat on the table and place it horizontally.

3. Fold up a straight line 5cm away from the bottom edge and gently press the crease. After folding, turn over the folded part again, which will be used as the bottom of the gift bag.

4. Fold both sides.

• During the folding process, always keep the horizontal position. Determine the midpoint of the top and bottom edges. You can measure with a ruler to determine the midpoint, or you can fold the paper left and right. The intersection of the folded seam and the upper and lower bottom edges is the midpoint, and then mark the two midpoints with a pencil.
• Then you need to use a ruler to measure the position 13mm from the left and right sides of the centerline and mark the top and bottom edges respectively. After marking, there are 6 points on your paper, all on the top and bottom edges, 2 midpoint points and 4 points 13mm away from the midpoint respectively.
• Align the right side with the line 13mm away from the left side of the center line, fold inward and remove it if there is a crease; then align the left side with the line 13mm away from the right side of the center, fold and remove it if there is a crease.
• Then turn the paper over, with the back facing up, and fold it back along the folding lines on the left and right sides just now. Glue the overlapping part in the middle. Pay attention to the next step after the glue is completely dry.

5. Turn the paper over, and then the glued part will face down. It is still placed horizontally.

6. Fold the side inward to form two wide sides.

• Measure the position 3.8cm from the left side with a ruler and mark it with a pencil.
• Fold the upper and lower sides of the left side along the position of the note at the same time, that is, fold the 3.8cm part of the left side into the inside of the bag, so that the position marked just now becomes the present side.
• Make sure the crease line is in line with the upper and lower lines to smooth the crease.
• Fold the 3.8cm part of the right side into the inside of the bag in the same way.

7. Fold the bottom and glue. The creased end in step 3 is the bottom of the bag.

• Fold the bottom up 10 cm.
• Open the folded part and press it inward to form a rectangle in the middle.
• The upper and lower sides form a trapezoid respectively. At this time, the bottom is an octagon.
• Fold the upper and lower trapezoids inward.
• At this point, the bottom should look closed. Glue the overlapping parts of the two trapezoids, and then dry them.

8. Open the paper bag from the mouth. Make sure the bottom and sides are glued before opening.

9. To DIY paper bags with handles you will add the portable rope. Or exquisite some decorations. Then we are done!  See, it’s not hard at all!

Paper Bags Usage

Have you noticed that you store a lot of empty paper bags at home? They all have very beautiful designs. However, it’s a pity to throw them away and certainly not the best way to treat them as disposable bags.  Then what can paper bags do? A lot of people don’t know that there are many kinds of paper bags, and the texture is also ever-changing, it’s not to be underestimated when it comes to storage tools

Paper Bags For Food Storage

Many paper bags are not easy to seep because of their high quality, especially kraft paper bags, which are very suitable for making paper receiving bags for food materials. Cut off the handle part and roll down the cut to become storage bags.

Paper Bags For Sundries

The paper bag is also very good at storing sundries, which gives small objects a place to live. Because of its lightweight, the paper bag can be folded at will, which makes it more flexible in storage and collocation.

Paper Bags For Food Materials

For the storage of the refrigerator door, some need to seal the food, fold up the paper bag, sealed with a clip, is a simple environmental protection sealed bag. Using paper bags and iron baskets to store long-term stored food can be hung up to keep food dry and extend the shelf life of food.

Tips: when using paper bags for refrigerator storage, remember that once the paper bags become soft with water, they can be taken out to dry and then continue to use. Of course, they can also be discarded and replaced with new paper bags.

Paper Bags For Clothes

It sounds like a Shopaholic’s wardrobe is full of unopened new clothes. In fact, it’s easy to store clothes in paper bags. To store clothes, you need a hard paper bag, which is not easy to deform. Different color paper bags can be used to divide clothes, or small paper bags can be set in large paper bags to store clothes in different areas.

DIY Paper Bag 

Diy paper bags are made of cardboard, craft, or paper with good-looking patterns. Use imagination to find out more possibilities of paper gift box packaging.