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Bean Bag Toss BuilderDIY cornhole boards
Build guide

Build your boards, step by step

6 steps from raw pine to yard-ready cornhole—with photos so you don’t invent a hexagon hole.

Start at step 1Materials list
Finished and unfinished DIY bean bag toss boards in a garage
Mark a regulation 6" hole, tape the cut, and saw it clean—hole saw for speed, or jigsaw + router for a factory edge.
Step 1Layout

Cut the Hole

Mark a regulation 6" hole, tape the cut, and saw it clean—hole saw for speed, or jigsaw + router for a factory edge.

Frame out a solid 48" × 24" platform—glue, pocket holes, and a light roundover turn garage lumber into “yeah, I meant to do that.”
Step 2Structure

Build the Frame

Frame out a solid 48" × 24" platform—glue, pocket holes, and a light roundover turn garage lumber into “yeah, I meant to do that.”

Shape folding legs that swing clean and hold the high end at regulation height—stack-cut or template-cut, just keep them twins.
Step 3Legs

Cut the Legs

Shape folding legs that swing clean and hold the high end at regulation height—stack-cut or template-cut, just keep them twins.

Bolt the legs on with flat-tip hex bolts and wing nuts—then fix wobble before it ruins someone’s game-winner.
Step 4Legs

Hang the Legs

Bolt the legs on with flat-tip hex bolts and wing nuts—then fix wobble before it ruins someone’s game-winner.

Seal the wood so weather and beer don’t wreck your work—sand the frame, go easy on the top, coat every edge and underside.
Step 5Finish

Finish the Boards

Seal the wood so weather and beer don’t wreck your work—sand the frame, go easy on the top, coat every edge and underside.

Plan the design, prime, paint or stencil, seal over the artwork—then grab bags and prove the boards belong in the yard.
Step 6Finish

Dress ’Em Up

Plan the design, prime, paint or stencil, seal over the artwork—then grab bags and prove the boards belong in the yard.