Homemade Bean Bag Toss Boards

This is my first blog post of hopefully many to come! I decided that I find a lot of great ideas and might as well share it with anybody who wishes to read about them.

Today, I went to the dollar store and bought two foam poster boards. (They were actually $1.29 each, but Dollar Tree has them for $1.)

I free hand outlined the designs that I wanted with a pencil. I decided to make one board be monsters, and you can toss the bean bags in their mouths. The other board will be for stacked pumpkins, also throwing the bean bags into their mouths. (Sorry the designs are hard to see.)

After drawing the designs out, I got my tools ready to cut the mouths out. I found a knife in the kitchen, as well as two pumpkin carving tool.

First I poked holes around a mouth like I would a pumpkin, and cut it out with the knife. It was hard work.

Tip: trace the outline of your shape with the pumpkin poker first, and gradually trace deeper until the shape pops out. Much easier and smoother this way!

After all the holes were cut out, I started painting with paints I bought from Lakeshore Learning.

 I bought the Super Bright Liquid Tempera, $1.99 each or 10 for $19.99.

Here's the finished monster board:

Here is the finished pumpkin board:

Perhaps I will make the actual bean bags soon and blog about it.

Toodles :o)