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How to Sew Cornhole Toss Bags

You can add some fun to your corn hole toss game by making your own corn hole toss bags with this tutorial for a fairly easy sewing project. There are a lot of fun duck cloth fabric colors available to choose from at the fabric store. Get your family involved in selecting the colors for each team. You will need 8 corn hole toss bags (4 bags for each team).

Or if you are not interested in sewing, you can purchase them from online retailers (we found prices of about $8.00 upwards for a set of 4 bags).

 

 

Supplies

  • 1/4 yard of 59” wide duck cloth fabric (9.65 oz. sq yd) in 2 different colors (one color per team)
  • 1 spool of heavy duty thread, like quilting thread
  • 4 –  32 oz. bags of plastic pellets filler (available at craft stores)

Cutting the Bags

You’ll be making two sets of bags – 4 bags per team. Eight 7” x 7” squares can be cut from each of the 59” fabric widths.

Step 1 – Cut out eight 7” x 7” squares of each color of fabric. I used a white fabric pencil and a ruler to mark the 7” x 7” squares on the fabric which made cutting out the squares easy.

Sewing the Bags

The finished size of the corn hole toss bags will be 6” x 6”.

Step 2 – Next for each bag, place two squares of the same color together with the outside faces of the material facing each other and pin both squares together. With the fabric pencil and ruler, mark a ½” seam on all sides of the bag. Also, mark a 2” opening centered on one of the sides. You will need this opening in order to add the plastic pellets filler later. Sew a straight stitch along the marked lines starting at one end of the marked opening and continue on all sides of the bag and ending at the other end of the marked opening.

 

 

Step 3 – Now, turn the bags right side out. This proved to be a little difficult because of the thickness of the duck cloth. Do this slowly so not to break the stitching you just sewed.

Filling the Bags

Step 4 – To fill the bags we used 16 oz. of plastic pellets for each bag. Use a funnel with a wide opening, or make a funnel with a piece of paper, which is what I did. Make a funnel with an 8 ½” x 11 piece of paper. Measure out 4 oz. (½ cup) of the plastic pellets at a time and poured them into the funnel placed in the 2” opening of the bag. Continue gradually adding added more plastic pellets until there is 16 oz. in each bag. After you fill each bag with 16 oz. of the plastic pellets filler, pin the bag closed to secure it until you stitch the opening, so that the pellets will not spill out.

 

 

Step 5 – Once you have all bags filled and pinned, stitch each bags opening closed with a straight stitch.



Let the games begin!

If you are interested in building your own cornhole toss game, click here for this great DIY outdoor project!

For information on how to play: Official Game Rules for Cornhole Toss

Note

This is actually the second set of bags we have made. The official cornhole toss rules call for corn feed which is what we used to fill the first set of bags. Unfortunately, the bags got wet during a game and not realizing this, we did not dry them properly and all 8 bags molded and attracted tiny insects that ate holes in the material.

For the new set of corn hole bags, we choose to fill the bags with plastic pellets which will not mold. Since the cornhole toss game will only be used for family games, this ‘non-regulation’ filler will work just fine.

 

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Comments

  1. Kathie says:

    For turning the square’s inside out I used a chopstick, it worked great for pushing out the corners without putting too much strain on the stitching. :-) Thanks for the instructions! We made the entire corn hole from scratch, i just put the first coat of spray paint on mine!




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