Following are some step-by-step instructions, photographs, and diagrams for building your own Cornhole game set…
How To Make Cornhole Boards
Here’s everything you need to build the Cornhole boards themselves:
- Official dimensions for platforms & bean bags, according to the American Cornhole Association
- How one person built their own Cornhole game and bags
- Some printable Cornhole dimensions and directions
- This Cornhole how-to has all of the nitty gritty details about building Cornhole boards
- 4 videos showing how to build Cornhole platforms
- This 6-inch hole saw is the best one for building Cornhole boards (…because it comes with a complete set of Cornhole board plans)
How To Make Your Own Cornhole Bags
As for the Cornhole bags (corn-filled beanbag pouches) used to play Cornhole, you can sew your own bags.
Here are instructions for making the bean bags from Michael Brungs:
You need 16 7″x7″ cloth squares for cornbags (enough for 8 cornbags). Depending on how many bags you want each player to throw (either 2 or 4), select the fabric colors accordingly. To assemble the bags, take 2 of the 7″ x 7″ fabric squares and sew a quarter inch seam on 3 sides. Fill each bag with 2.25 cups of corn. Sew the last open side of the bag. Double stitch each bag on all 4 sides. The bags do take a beating.
Here are some excellent detailed instructions for making cornhole bags.
When you buy a professional Cornhole set, the corn toss bags are usually made of duck cloth. It’s a popular fabric, commonly found at craft & hobby stores like JoAnn Fabric. It’s the same type of cloth used to make coin shipping bags.
Fun Tip: You can make your cornhole boards (and bags!) glow in the dark by using glow in the dark paint (like Krylon glow in the dark paint or Rustoleum glow in the dark paint) on the platform boards themselves and glow in the dark fabric paint on the bags.
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