How To Make Plastic Mat

John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

How to make plastic mat.

These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Once your plastic bag mats are complete they can be used to sit on when you are outside or at a sporting event. It is a single crochet with a size p or q hook.

One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. They are needed however because static electricity isn t your friend in home office or craft environments. However plastic grocery bags can add to the increasing size of landfills.

You can use thick fabric a piece of floor carpeting or mosquito screen material for decorating it with plastic pompoms. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Plus rolling a chair on carpet can pretty much suck it for an eco friendly option check out this prettier and less expensive plywood version instead our friends at ucreate tipped us. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.

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. How to make plarn. When i make the plastic mats i start with 75 single stitches for the bottom row then use the half double crochet stitch for the rest of the mat. 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.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. Crochet or knit the rows. One solution is to use the plastic bags in a new way such as making sit upon mats using the bags as the stuffing.

Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors. 40 large plastic bags create a middle size floor mat. You can make your mats as long or wide as you like using any stitch you like. Crochet the mat into a 6 foot by 3 foot mat.

Those plastic mats that sit under desks aren t exactly attractive nor are they earth friendly. Be a plarn maker link the loops to form plarn plastic yarn and roll them into balls like you would with a ball of yarn. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose.