How To Make A Ground Mat From Plastic Bags

One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.

How to make a ground mat from plastic bags.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or. Gather the other 2 bags and create your oval. 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. 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.

Lots of plastic bags. 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. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

Two people can make quick work of a lot of bags if one person is making sure the bags are uncrumpled flattening and stacking bags and the. Once your plastic bag mats are complete they can be used to sit on when you are outside or at a sporting event. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. One solution is to use the plastic bags in a new way such as making sit upon mats using the bags as the stuffing.

Gather 2 bags together and create your oval. Place on right side. 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. Crocheted floor mats are convenient and easy to clean.

Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Make sure all bags are uncrumpled turned right side out and flattened. They add a splash of color to home decorating and make wonderful very spacial handmade gifts. However plastic grocery bags can add to the increasing size of landfills.

Cut off handles and bottom seam step 3. A smaller version of the mat say 3 3 or small mat that didn t get finished would be perfect. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. Repeat until all bags are done.

Place on left side making sure the two ovals overlap. 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.