Free lunch lady SVG files

Sizes and what to cut them from

The cafeteria tray is the simplest shape in the set: six openings in a rounded board, with rims of 5 mm or more when the tray is 100 mm wide. It cuts cleanly in vinyl down to about 40 mm and makes a good stencil in card. The lunch lady with a ladle has fine apron lines about 1.5 mm wide at 100 mm tall, so keep her at 80 mm or more for iron-on, or use the silhouette, which has no lines inside the figure.

The serving tools on a rail are the delicate ones. The handles are about 5 mm wide when the design is 100 mm tall, but the hooks are 3 mm, so cut the rail at 90 mm or more and weed from the rail downwards. The oven mitt, the lunch box, the soup pot and the carton of milk are solid shapes with a few openings and suit tote bags, aprons and thank you cards.

A thank you with a name on it

Nothing here carries wording, so you can add a name, a school or a line of your own. The lunch box has a plain domed lid above its heart, the monogram ring is open in the middle, and the soup pot has room for a short word under its rim if you fill the heart in your cutting software. For the end of a school year, the layered tray with its peas, mash and nuggets makes a card front that children can help to stick down.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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