Music Student Gifts

I’ve wanted to make bags for the end of season, or even the beginning of music lessons in my studio. Most of my students, carry their books everywhere, and they get destroyed from the car, water, food, etc. so this gift is a little selfish on my side. However, I do think that these turned out adorable.

I found these canvas backpacks on Amazon. I even took into consideration the size of their binders, so that the binders would fit into the bag!

Chalk Couture came out with these two blueprint style transfer stencils that have musical instruments on it. I should have checked them, because they didn’t have a guitar, and I actually have more guitar students this year than piano students. I just didn’t put the keys and piano on the guitar student’s bags.

For the music across all the bags, I used an old Christmas transfer called O’ Holy Night. I just left off the words, so it wasn’t obvious that it was Christmas music. If you sat down and played he piece, you’d know that it was Christmas, but I’m banking on my students not trying it out!

I used a past Club transfer for the quotes for each of the students, it had 5-6 quotes on one transfer. The Modern Font transfer was used for the initials.

The second to last lesson we had together, I asked each of my students what their favorite color was, so I could do their bag in that color. I tried to just use one color, to keep things simple for me.

Each bag took me about an hour, so this was truly a labor of love.

This little gal is a cowgirl - for real! So I added the boot for her! Isn’t it cute!

It was fun to give a special gift to each of my students for their final lesson. During covid, I stopped doing recitals, so I just give a gift to my students on the last lesson. I find the end of the school year to be a lot less stressful for both my student, their families and myself for the end of the year.

Here are the videos of making a couple of the bags, so you can learn from them:

https://www.youtube.com/live/L1PgUcNhrsg?si=fD1C2_iFMCBB6cI7

https://www.youtube.com/live/EBSCFzHrrP0?si=ZszuHxNdBMwMqKRn

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