Winter Games

Winter parties at school are this week and I am one of the parents helping out. Each party we do a snack, craft and game. For this party's game my husband thought it would be cool to make a bean bag toss for the kids. While it would be easy and inexpensive to find one on a site like Oriental Trading Company, we already have a lot of the stuff to make this, so why not save the dough? Here's what we came up with.

How To Make A Bean Bag Toss

For the toss-through-board, we used a trifold presentation/display board made of cardboard. My husband made ours with some found cardboard but if you're low on time you can buy it pretty inexpensively.

1. Come up with a picture idea, what do you want your game to look like? Draw it on the center section of your display board with pencil.

2. Decide where you want the holes to be. Draw them on but make sure they are large enough for your bean bags to fit through. 

3. Go ahead and cut the holes out using an exacto knife or whatever you have that works.

4. Paint your picture.

EASY.

Next you will need bean bags. Again, you can easily find these for sale but if you have the stuff at home you can save a little dough.

How To Make The Bean Bags

1. Find some fabric. Cut it into the shape that you want for your bean bags making sure you have two sides to sew together. For our game we wanted them to look like snowballs so we used fuzzy white fabric cut into circles.

2.  Sew MOST of the edge of your shape together using a tight stitch (so no beans escape). Leave a section about 1-2 inches  long to pour your beans in through. 

3. Flip your shape inside our so that the section you sewed is not visible.

4. Pour in those beans. Looking back, I wish I would have used a funnel for this part.


5. Sew up the rest of the bean bag.

DONE.

Congratulations, you have your very own, one-of-a-kind bean bag toss. Happy Crafting!