How To Make Mats Out Of Plastic Bags

One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.

How to make mats out of plastic bags.

Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. To start the rug get the grocery bags which already cut by the way if you live in an apartment and you don t want to be snowed under with bags cut them store them in a simple little box and you can store hundreds and hundreds of bags in a simple box which is good because the box can take 160 to 200 bags. A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags. Here we ll show you how to make multi purpose yarn out of plastic bags to create things like rugs baskets or anything your heart desires.

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. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. However plastic grocery bags can add to the increasing size of landfills.

Plastic bags and some hard work will do the trick. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. One solution is to use the plastic bags in a new way such as making sit upon mats using the bags as the stuffing. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.

How to make plarn. 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 designs. Once your plastic bag mats are complete they can be used to sit on when you are outside or at a sporting event. This is a great way to involve your local church group knitting or crochet group youth group or scout organization with collecting and sorting the bags.

How to make plarn from the spruce. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. These comfy mats won t break the bank either.

While the blue or yellow bags can be mostly sorted together the white bags tend to have accent colors that can come out in the finished rug.