Making Mats For The Homeless Out Of Grocery Bags

Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily.

Making mats for the homeless out of grocery bags.

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. We asked for donations of plastic grocery bags and have some residents make the plarn plastic yarn. 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.

Bag ladies make mats for homeless out of plastic grocery bags. I am amazed by the creativity of people. The bag ladies as they call themselves also specialize in making large tote bags out of the plastic. I have started this project with some of my residents.

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. After a month of crocheting interspersed with stopping to cut bags into thin strips. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless. City seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into.

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. Some residents can only flatten out the bags and make them ready for cutting up. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. You are now ready to begin knitting or crocheting your plarn mat.

One local group of women is impacting lives across the country one. I am going to try this. Bethany thompson union city tenn. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip.