We had a blast coming up with a simple party tutorial in the spirit of Earth Day. This classic carnival game can be recreated at home with recycled plastic bottles, food coloring and a few felt bean bags. Have hours of simple, colorful, inexpensive fun according to this little guy.
Read on to get the step-by-step tutorial for our Knock ‘Em Down! Game and Hexagon Beanbags, plus sneak a peek at the other Consumer Crafts projects from Made, Petit Elefant, and Make and Takes
Now, here’s how we made this simple Knock ‘Em Down Carnival Game.
Save 6-10 clear plastic bottles of your liking. Look for clear bottles with wide, flat caps. Peal off the plastic labels.
Fill the bottles with water and add a drop of food coloring to each. It would also be really pretty to use natural food coloring,
If one of your colors is too intense, dump out part of the colored water and refill with water.
Now for some cute hexagon bean bags!
Use a hexagon template to cut your felt. This makes cutting hexagons of any size simple to cut. You can also make a template from cardboard!
The fastest way to stitch your beanbags is by machine but I couldn’t resist a little bedtime hand-stitching. Just make sure your stitches are small enough to hold in the beans. Once you have just 2 sides left open , fill the bag with beans and finish by sewing up.
Sew through just one layer of the felt when starting and ending so the thread ends are tucked neatly inside.
Cut cut cut! Stuff and Sew!
Line them up and let the party begin!
Some of our favorite bloggers were also on task. Dana from Made created a clever Tin Can Caddy, Petit Elefant designed a fun DIY T-shirt Necklace tutorial and Make and Takes came up with a sweet Washi Tape Vase that makes me eager to pull out some of my washi stash I keep buying. Head on over and show them some love.
