Make A Door Mat From Plastic Bags

To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors.

Make a door mat from plastic bags.

Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. In this video i m going to show you how to recycling old clothes fabric in to useful things. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

These colored bags would make a beautiful door mat. Table mat प र न ग ह च वल क plastic ब र floor mat door mat area rug carpet best out of waste duration. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. Craft 2315 265 240 views.

Hand made rug door mat carpets mate mats table mats diy recycl. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Cut off the handles and the bottom of the bag with scissors. 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.

One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. Lay a plastic grocery bag flat on a table. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. How to make plarn.

500 700 plastic shopping bags for a person sized mat but can vary depending on what you re using the mat for 10mm or larger crochet hook. Fold the bag lengthwise in half.