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How to Make Stickers With Packing Tape

Learn How to Make Stickers with packing tape in just a few easy steps. This is a simple craft for kids and a fun way to turn their own drawings into stickers!
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time15 minutes
Total Time20 minutes
Course: Art Project
Cuisine: Art Project
Keyword: DIY stickers, DIY stickers with tape, family activity, homemade stickers, how can you make a sticker, how do I make stickers, how do you make homemade stickers, how to create your own stickers, how to make homemade stickers, how to make stickers, how to make stickers at home, how to make stickers using parchment paper and tape, kids craft
Servings: 1 homemade sticker
Author: Shelly
Cost: $1

Equipment

  • Packing Tape Dispenser (optional)
  • Scissors

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Draw your pictures that you want to make into stickers on the copy paper. Start by drawing a pencil outline, then go over it with a black permanent pen as an outline. Color sticker designs in with colored pencils or colored markers.
  • Cut out your design with a pair of scissors. I leave a small white edge (or margin) around the black outlining on my sticker. 
  • Tear off a piece of parchment paper and lay it on your work surface. Cut the paper a couple of inches larger than the size of your sticker drawing.
  • Take a piece of packing tape and cut it about an inch longer than your sticker. Stick it to the parchment paper. 
    If your sticker is going to be larger, you may need to add more tape.To do so, cut off another piece of packing tape and put it onto the parchment paper next to first piece. Overlap the two pieces by about a quarter of an inch or so.
    Keep adding pieces of packing tape to your parchment paper in the sizes that you want to make your stickers.
  • Set your sticker on top of the packing tape / parchment paper layer. Take another piece of packing tape and place it over the top of your drawing.
    If your sticker is larger, you may need more than one piece of packing tape to cover your drawing. Simply add a second piece of packing tape, overlapping the first piece of tape slightly.
    Cover the entire sticker drawing with this method. Add enough packing tape so there is about a half inch of tape left around the edge of the sticker drawing.
    Use something like an old credit card or the edge of your scissor handles to gently rub over the top of your sticker. This will remove any air bubbles. Rub carefully around the edge of your drawing to seal the packing tape well.
  • Now cut through all the layers in the sticker. Leave at least a quarter inch of the clear packing tape around the outside edges of the sticker.
    To use the sticker, peel off the parchment paper layer. The first layer of packing tape becomes the "sticky side" of your sticker!

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Notes

If you don’t have parchment paper on hand, you can also use wax paper. But I have to say I have not tried that myself so I cannot endorse it fully. Let me know what you find out if you do that.