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.

I have started this project with some of my residents. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. Some residents can only flatten out the bags and make them ready for cutting up. The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag.

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. This is a demo video showing you how to take plastic shopping bags and converting them into sleeping mats for the less fortunate. After a month of crocheting interspersed with stopping to cut bags into thin strips. 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. 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. We asked for donations of plastic grocery bags and have some residents make the plarn plastic yarn.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. 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. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Bag ladies make mats for homeless out of plastic grocery bags.

One local group of women is impacting lives across the country one. 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. City seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into. Bethany thompson union city tenn.

Materials to make a sleep mat from plastic bags. I am amazed by the creativity of people. 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.