After guests enjoy their picnic lunch, it’s time for some field games! The strawberry bean bag toss is sure to be the kid’s favorite game of the day, with challenges ranging from ‘toss with your eyes closed’ to ‘toss standing on one leg.’ You can also have sack races, play freeze tag, or enjoy a game of red light, green light!
To make a bean bag
Supplies: burlap, scissors, strawberry bean bag template, tape, red and green acrylic paint, sponge brush, small dried beans (enough to fill each bag you make),needle and thread or sewing machine
- Per bag, cut two 6×6 inch squares of burlap.
- Download the strawberry bean bag template.
- Cut out the strawberry (leaving the green stem) on page 1. Cut out the stem on page 2.
- Line the strawberry base template up on the burlap and tape.
- Paint the strawberry base.
- Line the strawberry stem template up on the burlap and tape.
- Paint the strawberry base.
- Put the painted burlap square onto of the blank burlap square and sew three sides.
- Fill the the bag with beans and sew that last side shut.
- Sew around all four sides one more time to secure.
So excited to make the bean bags. Cutest gunny sacks ever!
genius! genius and adorable!
SoOO happy about this!!
Wow this is awesome. The strawberry bean bags are perfect!! Love the burlap!
This entire party is SO adorable that i just have to do this for my 3 and 5 yr old girls party. I was wondering how you made those adorable tablecloths and sacks for the races?
What great old fashioned fun! Awesome party!
Thanks for the tutorial, I am excited to give the beanbags a try.
Cutest ideas and party ever!!
i am loving your stuff! always nice to see awesome design in the works. i’m curious about the fonts you’ve used? great idea of an etsy store. i would love to open an etsy store myself one day. if i could just figure out what to do, what to do.
What a cute little model!
This is so sweet, I love the hand-painted strawberries!
I know this post is old, but I wanted to let you know that the strawberry bean bag template is no longer showing as available. 404 errors come up when you click on both links. Cute idea though, thanks for sharing!