How To Make Mats Out Of Shopping Bags

If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

How to make mats out of shopping bags.

Making purses out of plastic grocery bags is fun economical and new. Perhaps some members could work on the carrying straps and divide out the responsibilities to collect the bags sort the bags cut the bags etc. Once your plastic bag mats are complete they can be used to sit on when you are outside or at a sporting event. 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.

One solution is to use the plastic bags in a new way such as making sit upon mats using the bags as the stuffing. Another option is to seek out members of the knit crochet community who would be interested in making the mats and your project can be to make the plarn that is a service project all its own due to the number of bags needed to make a mat. It does not matter if you cut them up and down or across. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.

Opting to use green canvas bags for your grocery shopping is an effective option but many people still have excess plastic bags lying about the place. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn. These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat.

However plastic grocery bags can add to the increasing size of landfills. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. 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.