Ed. Note: We are super excited to share this tutorial from Scott Cooney, the head of Important Media, the network that we are a part of. He came up with a crafty way not just repair a tear on his busted bean bag but make it sturdier than before it broke!
Got a busted bean bag? Here’s how to repair a tear and leak-proof it so it’s stronger than ever!
If you’ve ever had bean bags rip open on the beach, you’ve known the eco-guilt of having 200 little bits of plastic spread out over a few square yards of sand. And, if you’re anything like me, you’ve also had plenty of time to think about how to prevent an explosion like that from ever happening again while you were down on your hands and knees picking up those bits of plastic one by one. (Plastic beaches are becoming all too common, unfortunately).
When we go to the beach, we play a game called Cornhole (also known as bag toss, depending on where you’re from). The idea is that you throw bean bags from a distance at a wood board that is levered up on one side so that it faces you. If you land a bean bag on the board, it’s worth 1 point. If you get it to drop through the hole, it’s worth 3 points. Pretty simple game, but the competition gets fierce when there are several beers involved (check out this crafty reuse of beer cans, just FYI).
On a recent beach outing, we had not one, but two bean bags rupture upon impact with the cornhole board, vomiting their contents over the aforementioned several square yards of beach. After spending a lot of time picking up beads of plastic, I had a thought–why not reuse a produce bag to wrap up those plastic beads, and put that inside the bean bag, so that the next time the threads come loose or the seam gives out (or in this case someone’s little weiner dog decides to use your bean bags as a chew toy and pokes a bunch of little holes in them), the bean bag can rupture, but the contents will stay inside?
Click here for the tutorial, including a surprising way to make the bean bag even stronger than before it broke.
