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20 Creative Ways to Reuse Plastic Bags

Fabida Abdulla | July 3, 2020 | Leave a Comment

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It’s Plastic Free July, and we know you’ve got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

If you’re a Mom, then no matter where you live in the world, you’re sure to have this one thing in your home – a plastic bag full of other plastic bags! Yes, this is a habit that people across the world have, regardless of race or nationality, and the reason can be any.

For most of us, it’s just a way of storing the bags till we find a way to use them. Some of us may reuse them for carrying objects or groceries, but for many of us, they just lie there, till we get tired and toss them out. 

No throwing out the bags may make you feel happy at finally decluttering, but that happiness will be short lived when you realize what happens to those bags. Here are some facts you need to know:

  • Americans use 100 billion plastic bags a year and these need 12 million barrels of oil to manufacture
  • The average American family brings home almost 1,500 plastic shopping bags a year, of which only 1 percent  are returned for recycling
  • Over 200 aquatic species have been affected by plastic pollution and 100,000 marine animals are killed by plastic bags every year
  • It takes more than 500 years for a plastic bag to degrade

And if you think all this doesn’t affect you, here’s another fact – the plastic that seeps into our water bodies eventually finds its way into the soil and into the food we eat. We are basically poisoning ourselves with plastic!

With this month being Plastic Free July, we are thinking of ways to reuse plastic bags that you may already have, instead of tossing them out. So here are 20 cool and creative ways to reuse plastic bags – and they look great too!

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20 Creative Ways to Reuse Plastic Bags
1. Plastic Bag Yarn (Plarn)
2. Plastic Bag Basket
3. Plastic Bag Rug
4. Plastic Bag Beach Tote
5. Recycled Plastic Coin Bag
6. Plastic Bag Ghosts
7. Plastic Bag Jump Rope
8. Recycled Plastic Bag Gift Bows
9. Plastic Bag Pom Poms
10. Recycled Plastic Bag Flower Pot
11. Plastic Bag Pom Pom Decoration
12. Plastic Bag Lamp
13. Plastic Bag Coasters
14. Watertight Plastic Bag Containers
15. Plastic Bag Wreath
16. Plastic Bag Flower Craft
17. Plastic Bag Blanket
18. Plastic Bag Kite
19. Plastic Bag Recycled Wall Hanging
20. Plastic Bag Produce Baskets

20 Creative Ways to Reuse Plastic Bags

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

1. Plastic Bag Yarn (Plarn)

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

This is the first thing to learn if you plan to make useful or pretty things with your plastic bags – plastic yarn, otherwise known as plarn. You can crochet, knit or use this plarn just as you would yarn, which means the possibilities are endless! Check out the tutorial over at Good Stuff Mama.

2. Plastic Bag Basket

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Instead of storing all your plastic bags in another plastic bag, go ahead and use them to make a basket which you can then use to store other things! Instructables gives us a step by step guide to make this good looking basket.

3. Plastic Bag Rug

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Want to make a bare spot on your floor look a little better? Make this fun plastic bag rug from My Recycled Bags! Is it just me, or does it look a lot like a jute or coir rug!

4. Plastic Bag Beach Tote

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Why take your belongings to the beach in a drab plastic bag, when you can take along this chic beach tote? Felt Magnet shows us how to use up plastic bags to make a good looking tote, that won’t have trouble with the water!

5. Recycled Plastic Coin Bag

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Target may be a place you spend a good deal of money, but you can also use Target bags to hold your money! Check out this cute project from We Can Make Anything where a plastic bag is turned into a cute little coin purse.

6. Plastic Bag Ghosts

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Small for Big tells us that you don’t need anything other than large plastic bags to create the perfect Halloween decor! These will sway about in the breeze perfectly, and you can also add some glow in the dark detail to jazz it up.

7. Plastic Bag Jump Rope

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Plastic bags can also turn into a fitness accessory! A Childhood List uses plastic bags to make a jump rope – this would be a great project for kids to try at home!

8. Recycled Plastic Bag Gift Bows

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Why buy expensive gift bows when you can make equally pretty ones with a plastic bag? Creative Jewish Mom shows us how easy it is to make your gift stand out with a cute little plastic bow.

9. Plastic Bag Pom Poms

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

If you’ve been around on Instagram or Pinterest in the recent past, you know that pom poms make every single thing look miles cuter! Perk up your interiors almost instantly with these plastic bag pom poms from Creative Colour.

10. Recycled Plastic Bag Flower Pot

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Decorative planters can be pretty – and pretty expensive! But you don’t have to spend even a fraction of that when you can make your own one-of-a-kind planter with plastic bags! Check out Be Creative and Happy for instructions to make this.

11. Plastic Bag Pom Pom Decoration

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

If the pom poms you saw earlier were great for adding to baskets or boxes, these pom poms from Lulastic are larger and make for impressive decor. Use colors to match your color theme for a more cohesive look.

12. Plastic Bag Lamp

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

How awesome does this lamp from Instructables look? Anyone who saw this would think you got it at a store, after paying a load of money! This truly takes trash to treasure to the next level!

13. Plastic Bag Coasters

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

These days probably have you drinking lots of cups of tea or coffee. So keep your desk or work surface clean and tidy with these coasters from Creative Jewish Mom, made from – you guessed it – plastic bags!

14. Watertight Plastic Bag Containers

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

There are so many situations when you just need a waterproof receptacle to hold something, like when you’re gardening, crafting or painting. Curbly comes up with the perfect solution for this, with waterproof containers made from plastic bags.

15. Plastic Bag Wreath

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

We love using wreaths to decorate our doors, and they’re a great way to add a bit of seasonal decor. Queen of the Household makes this easy for us by showing us how to turn plastic bags into any kind of wreath you want.

16. Plastic Bag Flower Craft

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Kids will enjoy making these blooms from Kids Activities Blog out of plastic bags. There are so many ways you can use these flowers – in decor, crafts or seasonal DIYs.

17. Plastic Bag Blanket

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Making a blanket out of plastic bags? Instructables shows us its possible! You’ll need a good amount of plastic bags, but you can still make it – and it looks quite cozy too!

18. Plastic Bag Kite

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Glue Sticks and Gumdrops gives us another fun thing to make with plastic bags – a kite! Being light, plastic bags make a great raw material to make kites, helping them go higher and higher up.

19. Plastic Bag Recycled Wall Hanging

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

If you can’t think of anything useful to make out of plastic bags, check out this project from Creative Colour where they use up plastic bags of different colors to create something that’s quite impressive and frame worthy!

20. Plastic Bag Produce Baskets

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Plastic bags are perfect to make little produce baskets that you can use to hold harvested vegetables from your garden, or to get vegetables that you buy from the vendor who wheels his cart in front of your house or building.

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Looking at these projects, you must be wondering – ‘are these really made from plastic bags?’ Just imagine, something we just throw away without second thought could actually be used to make so many things that are either useful or pretty – or both!

It's Plastic Free July, and we know you've got some plastic bags lying around. Get creative with these amazing ways to reuse plastic bags in your home.

Filed Under: Latest Posts, Pre teen Crafts & Activities, Recycled Crafts, Teen Crafts & Activities Tagged With: Crafts for Earth Day, environment, plastic bag, plastic bag crafts, plastic craft, Recycled Crafts

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About Fabida Abdulla

Fabida is a Freelance Writer and Work From Home Mom to her boisterous 8 year old. In between all the writing, baking, nagging, reading and cuddling, she manages to blog a bit about her crazy life at Shocks and Shoes. She writes posts for our Art & Craft Section. She also handles all our Social Media accounts.

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