How to Build a Cornhole Game Set

By: Jennifer Stimpson, This Old House online

Shopping List

Supplies You Will Need

½-inch birch-veneer plywood

  2x4s Get four 8-foot boards

⅜-by-3½-inch carriage bolts, washers, and nuts to attach the legs

 1-inch trim-head screws to attach the top

  3-inch deck screws to assemble the frame

  Wood glue

  6½-inch utility pulls Get two

Wood filler

Stain-blocking white primer

 Spray paint

  Painter's tape

  Spray polyacrylic

220-grit sandpaper

6-by-6-inch 16-ounce beanbags Get eight

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Tools List
Tools You Will Need
- Jigsaw fitted with scroll blade (for plywood) and aggressive blade (for lumber)
- Drill driver fitted with ¼-inch and ⅜-inch drill bits
- Compass
- Utility knife
- Plastic putty knife to seal the painter's tape
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Photo: Room 5 Films

Introduction
Overview
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6 hours
$72, including beanbags

Difficulty: Easy Cut out the holes, frame the boards, and attach the legs. Then get creative with the graphics.

Cornhole is everywhere! The backyard beanbag-toss game that caught fire in the Midwest now boasts its own association, Wikipedia entry, and myriad online purveyors. It's easy to see why it's become such a barbeque favorite: You can hold a beverage in one hand and loft your beanbag with the other. But why pay hundreds of dollars for game boards adorned with your feeble alma mater when you can make ones to be proud of with plywood and 2x4s? This Old House's experts, aka Team Saturday, will walk you through the steps in a video tutorial. As for your poor aim? Nothing a few well-chosen teammates can't overcome.