How To Make A Floor Mat Out Of Plastic Bags

40 large plastic bags create a middle size floor mat.

How to make a floor mat out of plastic bags.

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. Cast on 72 stitches. Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide.

One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags. Gather the plastic bags. 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. Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge.

Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. 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. To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags.

Basic knit sleep mat recipe. If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. You can use thick fabric a piece of floor carpeting or mosquito screen material for decorating it with plastic pompoms. How to make plarn.

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. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors.