plastic bag bag

In an earlier post, I said that I had a project for us, but unfortunately it involves irons, so it's probably not a very good project for school. However, it is not too difficult, and it recycles plastic bags, so here's how to make it:

Materials:

• about 30 plastic bags
• an iron
• wax paper
• a needle and thread (or a sewing machine)

how to make a bag from fused together plastic bags

• first you cut off the handles and the bottom edge of one of the plastic bags
• then, fold the plastic twice so there are 8 layers of plastic(for thinner or thicker plastic bags, you can adjust the amount of times you fold)
• sandwich the folded plastic bag between two layers of wax paper, and iron for about 30 seconds on each side.
• repeat process for all of the plastic bags

• place all of your pieces of fused plastic into a rectangle shape that is twice as long as you want the finished bag to be, with a little bit extra for a flap (optional)







• sew the rectangle together
  
• fold the rectangle in half (if you decided to make a flap, make one side longer than the other)
• sew up the sides
• turn the bag inside out
• take the handles that you cut off, and fuse them into a strap
• sew the strap on to your bag
• if your flap refuses to stay down, sew Velcro on.