Making Mats For The Homeless

Plarn is simply yarn made from plastic bags and it s been around for a long time although it keeps being re discovered by the mainstream media apparently.

Making mats for the homeless.

Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. Make plastic sleeping mats for homeless veterans you can help homeless veterans and benefit the environment at the same time. Are you still making the homeless sleeping mats. If you have any made they really need them.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. Besides sleeping mats you could create incredibly useful sitting cushions. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

I am too old to make them but could get them to the folks. Out city has placed 4 4 boards front to back on the park benches where the homeless sleep to stop them. Every now and then i see the same news articles coming around again. The mats are used to keep the homeless off of the wet cold hot hard ground.

By collecting plastic bags and crocheting them in to sleeping mats you can give a homeless veteran a soft place to lay his or her head and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills. Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet. This is a demo video showing you how to take plastic shopping bags and converting them into sleeping mats for the less fortunate. The mat is made of plastic and is about a 1 2 inch thick.

They need something to sleep on. Some group is making plarn sleeping mats for the homeless. The homeless mat is of course also a great mat to use ourselves for outdoor trekking or camping. While the mat making project is ensuring that homeless people will be warmer as they sleep it has also helped the women of winter valley get out of their apartments and meet new people.