Braided-Bag Jump Rope

What You’ll Need:

• nine plastic bread bags or grocery bags
• scissors
• ruler
• tape

How to Make It:

1. Remember to never leave plastic bags where young children can reach them.

2. If using grocery bags, cut off the handles. Cut along the side seams of each bag, forming one long strip of plastic. Trim the strips to make them all the same length.

3. Hold three of the strips together vertically, with the top edges even. Knot them together about 5 inches from the top.

4. Anchor the knot under a piece of furniture or in a closed drawer, or ask a friend to hold it. Braid the three strips together tightly until you have about 4 inches left. Then fan out the ends.

5. Pinch the end of a new strip and place it on top of one of the fanned-out strip ends. Tape them together. Then wrap the fanned-out strip end around the new strip and wrap tape around them a few times. Repeat this with each of the other fanned strip ends and two more new strips.

6. Now that you have lengthened each strip, continue braiding, picking up where you left off.

7. When you have about 4 inches left again, add the last set of three strips in the same way.

8. Tie the strips together in a knot when you reach the ends.