Making Plastic Mats For The Homeless

Seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.

Making plastic mats for the homeless.

Plastic bags 500 700 grocery bags. Flatten the plastic bag to best you can and straighten any of the bags creases. Plastic yarn can be used to crochet shopping bags very easily. Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the.

The basic instructions are above and can be modified to the desired size of bag. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. These sleeping mats make great supplies for the homeless population allowing them to sleep comfortably wherever they need to. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece.

It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. 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. How to make plarn. 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. 500 700 plastic shopping bags for a person sized mat but can vary depending on what you re using the mat for 10mm or larger crochet hook.