Emergency Kit Backpack for kids
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Published on April 9, 2011
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Update: I am now a winner! :) After decades of being a loser, a short post on thingiverse with a cute 2 year old model to add some sweetness and the cutbag contest is mine. You might be thinking, how does this cheap little thingiverse post merit a $150 prize? Answer: You didn't enter your awesome cardboard+bag uber world changing thing. For which I thank you. Now that I am officially and perpetually a winner you are welcome to enter the next contest and receive similar praise and adulation. (not to mention $$$) Contest money will be used to pimp my makerbot cupcake and to help finish my next project. thingiverse.com/thing:9117
After hurricane Katrina many Americans woke up to the need to have some emergency supplies on hand. The Japan earthquake has reminded us all again. Here is a cheap easy backpack for kids that can hold a bottle of water some food and other essentials. Here's a link to the FEMA suggestions for what to put in the pack. fema.gov/areyouready/assemble_disaster_supplies_kit.shtm If there is too much to fit in the little pack, put it in your own darn pack daddy.:)
After hurricane Katrina many Americans woke up to the need to have some emergency supplies on hand. The Japan earthquake has reminded us all again. Here is a cheap easy backpack for kids that can hold a bottle of water some food and other essentials. Here's a link to the FEMA suggestions for what to put in the pack. fema.gov/areyouready/assemble_disaster_supplies_kit.shtm If there is too much to fit in the little pack, put it in your own darn pack daddy.:)
Instructions
You'll need a 25lb rice bag or similar sturdy bag, a cereal box, a little cardboard and some tape.
1. unravel the stitching at the bottom of the bag, and cut along the side so you have a large sheet.
2. Cut the cereal box a little shorter for small kids. I cut approximately 4 inches off the top, leaving a flap on the back to fold over as a lid.
3. Put the box on the sheet and wrap it like a present leaving the top open,and leave the corner flaps at the bottom sticking out for attachment of the shoulder straps. Use sturdy tape and tape the bottom and the front both inside and outside.
4. Cut long strips off the top of the bag for shoulder straps. Make them about 4 inches wide.
5. Put a 8 to 10 inch long, 2 inch wide strip of cardboard on the shoulder strap and fold the strap around the cardboard, and tape it. This provides some padding and prevents the straps from bunching up and cutting into your shoulders.
6. Sew the shoulder straps to the triangle tabs at the bottom and to the top back of the pack just below the top of the box when folded closed.
7. Tape the bottom triangle up along the sides or down to the bottom if desired.
8. Pack it with stuff needed for emergencies. Tape it closed. Store it and forget about it.
9. Hover your mouse pointer on the red link at the top left under the "likes" heading, if it changes to a "Like It" link, click on the link:) .
10. Repeat step 9 with my other cutbag contest entries. thingiverse.com/thing:7691
thingiverse.com/thing:7697
11. Take over the world!
12. Laugh maniacally. Muuhahahahaha!!
1. unravel the stitching at the bottom of the bag, and cut along the side so you have a large sheet.
2. Cut the cereal box a little shorter for small kids. I cut approximately 4 inches off the top, leaving a flap on the back to fold over as a lid.
3. Put the box on the sheet and wrap it like a present leaving the top open,and leave the corner flaps at the bottom sticking out for attachment of the shoulder straps. Use sturdy tape and tape the bottom and the front both inside and outside.
4. Cut long strips off the top of the bag for shoulder straps. Make them about 4 inches wide.
5. Put a 8 to 10 inch long, 2 inch wide strip of cardboard on the shoulder strap and fold the strap around the cardboard, and tape it. This provides some padding and prevents the straps from bunching up and cutting into your shoulders.
6. Sew the shoulder straps to the triangle tabs at the bottom and to the top back of the pack just below the top of the box when folded closed.
7. Tape the bottom triangle up along the sides or down to the bottom if desired.
8. Pack it with stuff needed for emergencies. Tape it closed. Store it and forget about it.
9. Hover your mouse pointer on the red link at the top left under the "likes" heading, if it changes to a "Like It" link, click on the link:) .
10. Repeat step 9 with my other cutbag contest entries. thingiverse.com/thing:7691
thingiverse.com/thing:7697
11. Take over the world!
12. Laugh maniacally. Muuhahahahaha!!
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Emergency Kit Backpack for kids by bryanandaimee is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.
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I would put in less Carbohydrate stuff, and more with proteins.