The kids were very excited to start the games and we began with the Corn-hole tournament. In order to make the boards I went to Home Depot and had a piece of plywood cut into three 4' x 2' boards. Then I nicely asked the associate in tool rental if he had a round saw blade at least 6" that could cut out the holes. He did and even better was when he offered to cut them out for me. It was quite a project and he blew threw about 7 or 8 batteries for his drill before pulling out "The Beast" (a plug-in drill that was huge), but he got it done and they didn't charge me. I love Home Depot.
In order to prop the boards up we bought 3 pieces of scrap wood that were 4' long and about 12" wide. We got some brackets and I put them together. It worked perfectly. I used leftover primer and paint from another home project to paint the boards and basic craft paint to paint the triplets. I used leftover wood grain fabric and rice to make the beanbags for tossing.
I had the Triplets as bear cubs hanging from the tree.
The kids had a great time playing.
Next was the Caber Toss. For the log toss I was able to get a piece of foam (on sale) that was 5 inches thick and I had them cut it 4-1/2 feet long. I wanted the "logs" to be taller than the kids and figured this was a good length. I then found some Heidi Swapp Fabric that looked like wood grain and I got 3 yards of it to cover my foam "logs". Once I got home I cut the foam into 5 inch wide "logs" and then started sewing the wood covers.
This was a big hit and we still play with them two years later.
I had made a target that we hung between two trees in the back of the yard. I knew I needed a large circle frame of some kind that I could cover in burlap but would have the back open so that arrows could go through a hole that would be cut in the middle. I finally found the solution at Joann. I bought a large embroidery hoop. I purchased 1 yard of burlap and was able to fashion a target from that. I used basic craft paint for the bullseye. One problem I ran into was that when I hung the target up you weren't able to see the paint because the light shone through the burlap. I got a piece of cardboard and cut it to fit the hoop and solved the problem.
I had found really inexpensive bow and arrow sets online and bought a set for each guest that they could then take home as part of their favor. Unfortunately, the packaging that the sets came in had a very politically incorrect Native American on it along with a knife. I didn't want to give the kids toy knives so I opened all the sets and fashioned a sheath for the arrows for each kid. I collected empty paper towel rolls and covered them with brown construction paper. I then punched a hole near each end and used twine to make a strap for the "sheath".
The kids had a great time shooting at the target and then later running around the yard shooting at things.
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