Making Mats For The Homeless Out Of Grocery Bags

I am amazed by the creativity of people.

Making mats for the homeless out of grocery bags.

Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. Taking something that will forever sit in a landfill and repurposing it in such a creative way. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to.

Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. I am going to try this. Bag ladies make mats for homeless out of plastic grocery bags. This is a demo video showing you how to take plastic shopping bags and converting them into sleeping mats for the less fortunate.

Regardless of who uses it it s a great way to recycle. After a month of crocheting interspersed with stopping to cut bags into thin strips. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags.

So far they have spent at least 100 hours on the project producing 18 mats that have been handed out to the homeless and there are many more to come. Sleeping mats for the homeless are croqueted out of plastic bags during a mat making workshop held at southern oaks baptist church in tyler on wednesday jan. The bag ladies as they call themselves also specialize in making large tote bags out of the plastic. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. Bethany thompson union city tenn. City seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

We asked for donations of plastic grocery bags and have some residents make the plarn plastic yarn. So when i considered making mats for the homeless out of plastic bags and saw that crocheting was the method most widely used to achieve that goal here in america that is where i started. I have started this project with some of my residents. Some residents can only flatten out the bags and make them ready for cutting up.