How To Make A Floor 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 floor mat from plastic bags.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. You can use thick fabric a piece of floor carpeting or mosquito screen material for decorating it with plastic pompoms. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Cast on 72 stitches. Knitters and crocheters will use their experience to test the gauge which will determine the number of plarn stitches. 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. With just some waste plastic bags tyre tube this floor mat is made its very sturdy and should last long please follow the video for step by step procedure of this easy craft bestoutofwaste. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. 40 large plastic bags create a middle size floor mat. Stop with the whining about using new bags already.

Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. Basic knit sleep mat recipe.