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I’ve Been Drawing Dad Jokes And Puns On My Daughters’ Lunch Bags Every Day For The Past 8 Years (30 Pics)
My name is Dave. For the past 8 years, I have been drawing dad joke cartoons on my children's lunch bags. Just to make them smile and yeah, more often than not, groan and exclaim "Daaaaaaad."
It all started when my eldest daughter started school. My wife began carving love hearts and other simple shapes into my daughter's sandwiches. After a few days, I took over carving duties and then, eventually, found it was just easier to draw on the sandwich bags themselves. All of a sudden, a new daily ritual and hobby emerged. Lunch bag cartoons!
My daughter's lunch bag drawing reveals rapidly became a big hit in her classroom... and a major talking point at parent-teacher evening. ("Your daughter is doing great... Can we talk more about your lunch bag drawings, though!?") Eventually, I was persuaded by one of her teachers to create a social media account and share the cartoons. And so, @sandwichbagdad was born!
Today, I draw 3 bags per day, one for each of my 3 daughters. Pretty much day in, day out (although, thankfully, slightly less frequently while they are remote learning these days!) I get my inspiration from so many places: the news, my kids, even when out jogging. 'Tooning is a great way for me to relax after a hard day. I work in corporate finance, so drawing and puns are purely a hobby.
And while my kids roll their eyes when they see their bags each day, I know they secretly get a kick out of them. They have even begun to hone the art of dad joking themselves now and frequently make their own cartoon suggestions!
So here's a snippet of some of my faves. C'mon. "Loaf" out loud. You know you want to...
If you are interested, you can follow my sandwich bag chronicles on Instagram, Facebook, or here on Bored Panda!
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Orange you really thinking that joke will fly? Stick to your day job. BTW, you should do this professionally (if you don't already) as you are outstanding!
Strange how people refer to the Universal declaration of Human rights when it's about masks but deny that same declaration when someone says that the human right to medical care is also in that same declaration.
why y'all downvoting Pauline, she was asking a question that she didn't know the answer to lol
I'm Canadian I carry a big stick. It's called a hockey stick it's about 6ft get near me and you'll know what a slap shot feels like.
Thanks very much. They groan and roll their eyes a lot at these...but I think thats a sign that they really love them :)
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wow i'm just wow that's amazing drawing you have a real talent and sense of humour
he he... thats what my daughters say too!
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These are gold! Your artistic talent is top notch! Your jokes are... um, well you can draw really good 👍😄
prismacolor pencils. They have really great pigments which work well on the darker lunchbag papers
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You gave me several chuckles. Great work. Admired and took some lessons from your drawings.
Just made me smile and laugh! What a great Dad, artist and comedian!!
plenty more on my facebook or insta accounts... @sandwichbagdad
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too busy admiring the artistic skill to laugh at the puns I'd love to see more!
thanks! Lots more on my insta or facebook pages 😁😂
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thanks...i have. check out @sandwichbagdad on facebook or insta and follow along for more dadjoke groans!
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Are your kids back in school or did you make these for future use?
they were briefly back....and are now remote learning again. Most of the cartoons above are old ones from my insta account history.
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These are great! What medium do you use to draw them? You must need to get up extra early in the morning to get a head start on them, especially x3.
Thanks. Its just coloured pencil on plain lunchbags (with black outliners). I draw them at night...and use the school vacations to build up an emergency buffer if I run out of time or ideas for a particular day
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I have a hard time believing you spend THAT much time on a paper lunch bag. That might be your canvas, but some of these are really detailed, and clearly took a while. Why no picture of them holding the bag, or food in it, or crumpled up? I call fake news.
I can absolutely assure u they are real lunchbags and come home crumbled and well used (except for the few that get kept by the teachers). These are all the "before" shots. A typical bag takes about 10 to 20 mins to draw on average since the image is not that large
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Thanks very much. They groan and roll their eyes a lot at these...but I think thats a sign that they really love them :)
Load More Replies... wow i'm just wow that's amazing drawing you have a real talent and sense of humour
he he... thats what my daughters say too!
Load More Replies... These are gold! Your artistic talent is top notch! Your jokes are... um, well you can draw really good 👍😄
prismacolor pencils. They have really great pigments which work well on the darker lunchbag papers
Load More Replies... You gave me several chuckles. Great work. Admired and took some lessons from your drawings.
Just made me smile and laugh! What a great Dad, artist and comedian!!
plenty more on my facebook or insta accounts... @sandwichbagdad
Load More Replies... too busy admiring the artistic skill to laugh at the puns I'd love to see more!
thanks! Lots more on my insta or facebook pages 😁😂
Load More Replies... thanks...i have. check out @sandwichbagdad on facebook or insta and follow along for more dadjoke groans!
Load More Replies... Are your kids back in school or did you make these for future use?
they were briefly back....and are now remote learning again. Most of the cartoons above are old ones from my insta account history.
Load More Replies... These are great! What medium do you use to draw them? You must need to get up extra early in the morning to get a head start on them, especially x3.
Thanks. Its just coloured pencil on plain lunchbags (with black outliners). I draw them at night...and use the school vacations to build up an emergency buffer if I run out of time or ideas for a particular day
Load More Replies... I have a hard time believing you spend THAT much time on a paper lunch bag. That might be your canvas, but some of these are really detailed, and clearly took a while. Why no picture of them holding the bag, or food in it, or crumpled up? I call fake news.
I can absolutely assure u they are real lunchbags and come home crumbled and well used (except for the few that get kept by the teachers). These are all the "before" shots. A typical bag takes about 10 to 20 mins to draw on average since the image is not that large
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