Plastic Bag Mat Made With Plastic Bags

Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects.

Plastic bag mat made with plastic bags. Plastic bag mats in small sizes look gorgeous on a craft table or home office shelf large floor rugs made with plastic bags make beautiful home decorations for kitchens bathrooms mud rooms or entryways. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. December 6 2018 at 8 44 pm. 500 700 plastic shopping bags for a person sized mat but can vary depending on what you re using the mat for 10mm or larger crochet hook.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. How to make plarn. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher. The next thing is that they need to be loop together to string up the looms.

Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. One quarter to one third of the bags that are used to make a mat have to be strung on the loom before the weaver can start weaving. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic.

Stop with the whining about using new bags already. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. Just as with a larger plastic bag follow the directions and can easily make the newspaper bags into plarn. How to make plarn plastic bag yarn the first time i learned about plarn yarn created by cutting and tying together strips of plastic grocery bags was in 2005 when british designer erika knight was a guest on a tv show i used to host called knitty gritty she showed it made using a rainbow variety of bags an array of which i have yet to come across here in the states and knitted into a.

Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases.

These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come.