Making Cat Mats From Plastic Bags

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

Making cat mats from plastic bags.

Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. This is another way to do it that can. The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects.

Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Basic knit sleep mat recipe.

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. Cast on 72 stitches. The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months.

The goal is a 3 by 6 size plastic yarn mat. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Homeless or refugees camping mats. How to recycle plastic shopping bags into something useful.

Like sleeping mats and blankets. I showed you a while ago how to upcycle plastic grocery bags into a usable knitting crocheting material known as plarn. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic.

Each 6 foot by 2 foot mat is made from 600 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.

Each mat takes about 50 hours to make. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.