This is a really useful project that you can make tons of and donate to your local homeless shelter.
Plastic bag bracelets.
They pollute our oceans and kill marine life that mistake plastic bags for food.
On land plastic bags get into soil and slowly release toxic chemicals.
Make your bracelets as long as you want to wrap as many times as you d like.
Each bracelet uses one clear plastic bag that newspapers come in when it s raining or wet outside.
Use different color plastic bags or add colorful beads or charms to your bracelets to make them unique.
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Here is another project for the eco conscious jewelry lovers.
This bag has the square sides that make it look like most other re usable shopping bags.
This is a great project for older kids with supervision.
Some stylish plastic bag bracelets.
Sleeping mats for the homeless.
This will be the perfect way to give some new life to those old bracelets you have at home.
The ones around my neck of the woods are 21 x 7 or 24 x 8.
Either size works great.
By creating such wonderful bracelets we are keeping plastic bags out of the environment thus reducing trash.
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The blue and red bracelet i made wraps five times around my wrist and measures about 43 inches long.
Plastic bags are one of the most commonly littered items on earth.
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These plarn bracelets are interesting and unusual.
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So make one or a ton you decide.
Your friends will never know the difference and you ll have some nice looking bracelets.
More than 100 billion of them are used each year in the united states alone.