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.

How to make a floor mat out of plastic bags.

Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Gather the plastic bags. You can use thick fabric a piece of floor carpeting or mosquito screen material for decorating it with plastic pompoms. 40 large plastic bags create a middle size floor mat.

Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch.

One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. How to make plarn. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting.

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. 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. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose.

A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects.