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.

Gather the 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. Gauge 12 sts x 24 rows 4 10 cm in garter stitch. 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.

Parents can teach about recycling in the house and how plastic bags take years to decompose. Plastic bag recycling for making pompoms and creating unique floor mats in two colors. You can use thick fabric a piece of floor carpeting or mosquito screen material for decorating it with plastic pompoms. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases.

One easy project appropriate for ages six to adult is weaving a doormat from left over 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. Instead of becoming landfill plastic bags can be used for fun craft projects. A word of forewarning when putting out the call to action for collecting plastic bags be prepared for an avalanche of plastic bags.

If you don t want your rug to follow a pattern you can skip sorting. 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. Approx 140 plastic bags or 1260 yds of plarn size us 11 8mm scissors. Mary ann derryberry shows how she and a group of volunteers make sleeping mats out of plastic bags.

Make plarn using the above episode of ask me monday as a guide. How to make plarn.