Hey guys!
Happy new year! sorry that was kind of late. School starts again tomorrow! I've been very crafty in a green way... T.Y. and I made 4 Capri sun bags for the auction and I've been making lots of plastic bag bags. If anyone has any capri suns I need them. I'm making 32 capri sun bags for the auction. I have like 200 and I need like 300 more. And I'm not kidding. People at school, pleeeeeeeaase can I have your capri suns?

Done!

I just finnished my crochet plastic bag bag, so here it is:

Plastic Bags

As many of you may not realize, plastic bags have many uses. You can
Pick up dog our cat poop
Fuse them together with an iron and make a wallet or bag
Crochet our knit them
Reuse them to carry groceries
For more ideas go to these websites
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art35668.asp
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/home-garden/reuses-plastic-bags.html

another plastic bag bag

Hey guys,
As most of you know, I'm making another plastic bag bag, but this time instead of fusing together the bags, I'm crocheting them. All I did was chain about 50, made it a loop, and used dc for about 5 inches. Then I ran out of plastic bags because for some reason we don't have any. If you want to make one, whatever you do, do not use the kind of black grocery bag that feels sort of waxy. It is way more trouble than it's worth.

To make the yarn (thanks TY) cut off the handles and the bottom (and save them to fuse together for something else) and lay the bag down flat. You should have a flat cylinder of plastic. Cut 1 inch strips. It's kind of hard to explain, but you should have circles. Using the girth hitch (you can find that here), connect all of the circles into a long string. That’s all!

Incase you were wondering, the contest is still going. It won't be stopping until we get at least 10 comments, so get people to comment!

-Anna

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.