Making Mats For The Homeless Out Of Grocery Bags

One local group of women is impacting lives across the country one.

Making mats for the homeless out of grocery bags.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. 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. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

Regardless of who uses it it s a great way to recycle. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. I read an article where people are making rectangular mats out of plastic bags as well to be used by the homeless for sleep mats during the wet season. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to.

You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat. This is a demo video showing you how to take plastic shopping bags and converting them into sleeping mats for the less fortunate. 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.

Bag ladies make mats for homeless out of plastic grocery bags. I have started this project with some of my residents. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. I am amazed by the creativity of people.

Taking something that will forever sit in a landfill and repurposing it in such a creative way. We asked for donations of plastic grocery bags and have some residents make the plarn plastic yarn. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. City seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into. I am going to try this. 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.