Bandana Mask – How to Make the Easiest No-Sew Face Mask

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You don’t need a sewing machine or any sewing supplies to create a cloth face covering like a bandana mask. You can make a no-sew cloth face mask with two elastic bands and a bandana, or any piece of cotton fabric such as a large square cut out of an old shirt.

It takes less than a minute to make this DIY no-sew bandana mask.

The CDC, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer as well as other government officials across the world agree that we are all safer if people wear face masks when out in public.

Since it is crucial that medical supplies are reserved for frontline healthcare workers, the general public must use cloth masks or other DIY face masks.

There are many different options for homemade face coverings.

The Easiest DIY No-Sew Face Mask

If you need a mask immediately and you have limited supplies, this instant face mask tutorial has you covered!

All the supplies you need are two elastic bands, regular rubber bands or hair ties will work, and a bandana or large piece of fabric from an old dress shirt or t-shirt.

If you don’t have hairbands or elastic bands, or you want a softer alternative to wrap around your ears, you can cut sections of a tube sock to make soft, knit “elastic” bands.

If you are cutting your fabric from a shirt, cut a piece around 18″ x 18″ The size does not need to be exact at all.

For those who don’t sew but want to have a high quality, washable cloth face mask, there are many sewists, like myself, who are sewing extra masks for others.

You can reach out on social media to local sewists or look on Etsy to find sewists who are selling their handmade masks. Buying masks from home sewists is a wonderful way to support fellow moms so they can earn some extra grocery money, as well as to cover the costs of the fabric and supplies for the masks they are making to donate to the frontline workers.

There are also companies like TheraCalm, a small, family-owned Canadian business that normally makes weighted blankets and dental supplies but has now re-tooled part of their factory to help during this crisis by producing reusable, affordable cloth masks.