How To Make A Floor Mat From Plastic Bags

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.

How to make a floor mat from plastic bags.

Repeat step 3 until mat measures 72 183 cm from edge. 40 large plastic bags create a middle size floor mat. Cast on 72 stitches. One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over bags.

How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors.

Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. Basic knit sleep mat recipe. 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.

To make creating the colored rings in the rug easier i took my bags of bags and sorted the various bags into separate colors. 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. Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose.

You can use thick fabric a piece of floor carpeting or mosquito screen material for decorating it with plastic pompoms. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags knitting needles size 10 or higher or crochet needles o or p recommended scissors. Stop with the whining about using new bags already.