How To Make A Floor Mat Out Of Plastic Bags

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How to make a floor mat out of plastic bags.

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

You can use thick fabric a piece of floor carpeting or mosquito screen material for decorating it with plastic pompoms. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags. 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.

Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. Cast on 72 stitches. 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.

Gather the plastic bags. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. 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. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.