How to Design a Summer Beach Bag

We think everyone needs a good, large beach bag for summer fun! You can use them for swimming gear, road trip snacks and so much more. So, today we're showing how we took a plain, large bag and made it fun for a summer beach bag.

First, gather your supplies, you will need a plain bag, tie dye, iron-on letters and iron. We also used a plastic garbage bag to protect our workspace.

For best color-blending, get your bag nice and damp. Then, start with the sky blue tie dye. Shake the bottle and spray it at the bottom of the bag, with the most dye at the very bottom edge.

Next, spray the lime green dye, right over top of the blue and up a few inches higher on the bag to create a nice gradation from dark green to light green. We ended up adding a little more blue right on the bottom edge for that nice, darker green.

Now, spray the hot pink. We went heavy with the dye at the top of the bag and gradually sprayed less pink when we got close to that lime green.

Let the bag lay flat to dry completely. Once your bag is dry, you can add the iron-on letters. Peel them off from the sheet and place them how you'd like. We used the periods kind of like splashes of water or watermelon seeds on the sides of the word "hello".

The last step is to press your letters with an iron and iron the bag throughly to heat set the tie dye.

We hope this gives you some ideas that you can use for your summer crafting.