How To Make A Floor Mat From Plastic Bags

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

How to make a floor mat from plastic bags.

Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. 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.

Plastic bag mats in small sizes look gorgeous on a craft table or home office shelf large floor rugs made with plastic bags make beautiful home decorations for kitchens bathrooms mud rooms or entryways. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat.

Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.