I recently finished a great week as a leader for Junior 7 at Girl Scouts' Lilburn Day Camp Fine Arts Academy. We had two older scout Camp Aides helping our unit. As a gift for these wonderful helpers, our unit decorated a bag for them. Each junior had a canvas section to create their masterpiece, and the result was an art gallery bag for each CA. The juniors brought in treats to fill the bag.

This would make a great teacher gift. A picture frame rubber stamp inspired this idea. For a different look, you could stamp frames on the bag, and then decorate the canvases.

Step 1: Supplies

Canvas bag
Fabric Markers
Ruler
Pencil

I used a 13"x15" bag, but you can adapt the idea to any size bag.

We used a variety of fabric markers including some Shapie Stained brush tip markers and Crayola Fabric Markers.

Step 2: Pencil in Canvases

There were 16 girls in our unit, so I penciled in 16 2"x3" canvases, 8 on each side of the bag.

Step 3: Decorate Canvases

Each girl created their own mini canvas and an optional frame. Many of the frames highlighted items the Camp Aides liked including Frozen, Coke, One Direction, tie-dye, lollipops, swimming, music, soccer, popcorn, Cheetos, and lemonade.