This article, entitled Make your Own Shopping Bag! comes from Karla Andrew and partner site Tech Ed 4 Kids
I am a SAHM/WAHM of three boys ranging in age from 3 to 18. We are working on saving enough for college at the same time as affording diapers. I author a few blogs, including http://teched4kids.com. I currently teach computer information technology classes for the local university and have in the past taught workshops for kid's in technology education besides being the Kentucky State FIRST LEGO League Championship Coordinator from 2005 to 2008.
Do you have lots of extra t-shirts laying around the house? I know we do. We get them at every event we go to as well as at every tourist spot we stop at. I have them for museums, caves, bike rides, besides the ones I collect for Cancer awareness… I love to quilt, so I usually take mine and turn them to a t-shirt quilt. It’s fun to look through and say – oh yeah I remember that place or do you remember when….
We frequently though get t-shirts that don’t hold any special meaning and become outgrown or unusable in some other way (like a ketchup stain all down the front). Instead of throwing them out, Good Housekeeping has posted on their site some instructions for turning a t-shirt into a reusable shopping bag.
How to Make a Reusable Shopping Bag – Eco Friendly Bag Craft – Good Housekeeping
I like using the reusable bags since it seems the plastic bags rip every time I try to use them with milk. (I ask them not to bag the milk but somehow it always happens) Making your own bags can be a great supplement to learning about reduce, recycle and reuse.
