How To Make A Ground Mat From Plastic Bags

Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose.

How to make a ground mat from plastic bags.

The ground can get very hot or cold to sleep on and just having a little bit of separation between the wet ground and the body. Repeat until all bags are done. Cut off handles and bottom seam step 3. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.

Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. 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. Lots of plastic bags.

Place on left side making sure the two ovals overlap. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Gather 2 bags together and create your oval.

These two plastic bag recycling ideas show how to crochet a floor mat of plastic strips and decorated a floor mat with pompoms made of plastic bags. They add a splash of color to home decorating and make wonderful very spacial handmade gifts. For sandy watts a 63 year old retired elementary school teacher and upland resident the ground mats are a way to help the homeless while preventing some of the 100 billion plastic bags that are used in the u s. 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 smaller version of the mat say 3 3 or small mat that didn t get finished would be perfect. Gather the other 2 bags and create your oval. Crocheted floor mats are convenient and easy to clean. Make sure all bags are uncrumpled turned right side out and flattened.

Once your plastic bag mats are complete they can be used to sit on when you are outside or at a sporting event. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or. Each year from ending up in the landfill.

Place on right side. To make things easy you ll want to start off with 3 bags of one color and 1 bag of another this way you can keep track of which bag is your weft the bag doing the weaving.