How to Make a Backpack for Kids

Summary: If there is one thing that every kid needs it is a good backpack. Besides their obvious carrying utility, backpacks are a symbol of status. Many experts have debated about the role of backpacks in the psyche of school children. Some argue that the delineating effect of the status that backpacks bring children is a positive lesson for students about to embark on a life in post-industrial capitalist America. Others feel that backpacks are nothing more than the archaic advance of the caste system into modern America. Whether you want to make your kid stand out as an exceptional potential cog in the giant class-driven wheel of market-driven fascism in America or use your kid as a statement of the naive socialist hope of a classless America, a good backpack is an important thing to know how to make.

In this free video series, watch as expert seamstress Vicki Walker teaches how to make a backpack for a child. Learn all the materials and supplies needed, how to cut the different parts, how to pin and sew things together, and how to place fabric around D ring. Save money for your kid and make them a fashionable backpack that they can show off at school with the help of these step by step tutorials.