Mats Out Of Plastic Bags

Note i put the sheets ink side down so that the ink didn t have a chance to transfer to any other surface.

Mats out of plastic bags.

Plarn is the yarn also called plastic yarn that you will use to knit or crochet the plastic mat. Then lay your sheets of plastic bag s over the back of the spiral. Opting to use green canvas bags for your grocery shopping is an effective option but many people still have excess plastic bags lying about the place. So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come.

Plarn is constructed from the plastic bags and will be used just as one would use yarn in knitting or crocheting. The plastic bags will melt to the iron. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plas. How to recycle plastic shopping bags into useful sleeping mats or blankets for the homeless or refugees.

These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat. We will go through the steps below to make plarn and then the knitting and crocheting will begin. First put the spiral pin side down on an iron safe surface. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st.

Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags.

Rather than throwing them out you can reuse them by crocheting them into multi purpose mats known as plarn plastic yarn. Then lay the wax paper on top of the plastic sheet. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.