Since Beckett absolutely loves Sesame Street, it was an obvious choice as the theme for his party this year. I wanted to keep all of the party activities simple and fun for the two-year old crowd. In addition to story time and a simple craft project, I thought a bean bag toss would be perfect. I found a small option available on Amazon, but it wasn’t what I really wanted, so I figured out a simple way to make my own.
My mom had some Sesame Street fabric left over from a project she is working on for Beckett and Cooper, so she offered to make the bean bags for me. Each bean bag has four Sesame Street character faces on the front, with street sign fabric on the back – half with a blue background, and half with green, making it easy for two people to play while keeping track of whose bean bags make it through Elmo and Cookie’s mouths. When my sister and I were young, my mom would fill bean bags with pinto beans, but she later learned that pinto beans will eventually rot and the beans can get worms {gross!}. After doing a bit of research, she discovered that a better option for filling bean bags is popcorn kernels.
I wanted to test out the final product to make sure it wouldn’t tip over when hit with a bean bag, so I challenged Scott to a friendly game of bean bag toss. Fortunately the 4 inch square bean bags easily fit through the mouth openings, and the cardboard stood up to the beating, never tipping over even when hit square on with a bean bag.
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