Making Mats For The Homeless

This is a demo video showing you how to take plastic shopping bags and converting them into sleeping mats for the less fortunate.

Making mats for the homeless.

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. Meanwhile in norwalk iowa the mighty mat makers meet once a week at st. John the apostle catholic church to create their own mats using about 700 plastic bags apiece. Some group is making plarn sleeping mats for the homeless.

I suggest you measure the width of your backpack and create a somewhat narrower mat than you d make for the homeless. 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. Are you still making the homeless sleeping mats. The homeless mat is of course also a great mat to use ourselves for outdoor trekking or camping.

Nanaimo harbour city seniors in namaimo british columbia canada have taken plastic shopping bags and turned them into sleeping mats by crocheting them together. 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. It also makes a great addition to any camping trip. If you have any made they really need them.

Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet. They need something to sleep on. Make plastic sleeping mats for homeless veterans you can help homeless veterans and benefit the environment at the same time. Besides sleeping mats you could create incredibly useful sitting cushions.

The mats are used to keep the homeless off of the wet cold hot hard ground. 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. 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.