How To Make Sleeping Mats From Milk Bags

Two dufferin peel csdb students demonstrate how to weave recycled milk bags into useful sleeping mats for victims of tragedy worldwide.

How to make sleeping mats from milk bags.

The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. Fold in half again. At the end of the video you will find contact information if you would need any further assistance.

This video will explain how to make sleeping mats from recycled milk bags. They had an overabundance o. The milk bag mats offer people without beds an invaluable durable and washable alternative to sleeping on the often cold and damp ground. Cut 2 inches off the top of the bag the extra piece that is longer than the actual bag 4.

This is a video of how to make a crochet mat with plastic milk bags. How to weave a milk bag mat part 1. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. I first heard about it when i was talking with some women at a local coffee group.

I made several of these mats for a non profit organization called suitcases for africa. Not only can these milk bag mats provide comfort as a bedding alternative but have been used by health care professionals as a make ready substitute for an operating bed table where resources are scarce. They bring these mats to africa and. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. Fold the bag in hal. Making milk bag mats. Kesthely is rarely able to make the trip with the mats or piles of bags they send for people to weave themselves.

How to weave a milk bag mat part 2 4 steps on to cut the bags into strips.