Bean bags like these are commonly used as juggling props.

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Games

• Bean Bag, sometimes called Cornhole in the Ohio Valley of the United States, is a game similar to horseshoes and quoits, played with bean bags and two goals.
• Footbag (also hacky sack) is a type of ball-shaped bean bag that is used to play various games:
  • Freestyle hackysack involves performing tricks while keeping the bean bag airborne for an extended period of time.
  • Circle kick (also hacking circle) requires several players to test their skills against one another. The players gather in a circle and attempt to kick the hackysack around the circle. The goal is for everyone to kick the hackysack at least once in a round.
  • In Numbers, the players start off with a circle kick, and each consecutive holder of the hackysack must kick it a certain number of times. The number increases on every success.
  • In Brandy, similar to Killer, the number of kicks is chosen before the game starts. After the game starts, if a player drops the hackysack after the number of kicks has been past, any other player can pick up the sack and throw hard at the player. The player who drops the sack generally runs away from the circle to avoid being hit. Only one throw is allowed. the game continues if it hits or misses. If a player drops the hackysack before the number of kicks has been met, the game continues.
  • In Horse, the players start with a circle hack, and try to keep the hack up for as long as possible. If a person drops the hack, he/she gets a letter. Once a person gets the entire word spelled out (you can choose whatever word you want), they stand up against a wall, and the last person to hit the hack before it was dropped gets to stand about 15 feet back and throw it at them.
• Bean bags are also commonly used for juggling.

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Furniture

Bean bag chairs

Bean bag chairs are a popular form of furniture made of fabric and filled with small chunks of styrofoam or PVC pellets. They were hugely popular as mod furniture during the late 1960s and early 1970s; their popularity resumed in the mid 1990s, as companies began selling chairs filled with shredded polyurethane foam, charging a premium for the extra comfort this can provide. Bean bag chairs are known to bean bag enthusiasts by many names, such as "Physics Bag" or "Oversized Sac". Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1984 × 1488 pixel, file size: 698 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1984 × 1488 pixel, file size: 698 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... “fabric” redirects here. ... Styrofoam is a trademark name for polystyrene thermal insulation material, manufactured by Dow Chemical Company. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A polyurethane is any polymer consisting of a chain of organic units joined by urethane links. ...

Polystyrene bead originally comes in a sugar form and steam is blown into the sugar to expand it. It is also called expanded polystyrene or EPS in the industry. The diameter of the bead that goes into the bean bag does vary from about 3-9 mm, however you can now also purchase micro-bead which is 1 - 3 mm in diameter. After a couple of years use, the beans within a bean bag will become compressed and comfort will be reduced. One can generally obtain smaller bags of refill to top them up.

References

External links

• Bean Bag Chairs and Furniture

• Footbag WorldWide Information Service
• Bean Bag Game Plans Online Instructions For Constructing a Bean Bag Toss Game
• Bean Bag Rules and Equipment
• Bean Bag Filling Calculator
• The Safety of Beanbag Seating DTI Fire and Furnishings Regulations in the UK
• Bean bag sofa/bed on instructables Instructions to make bean bags (furniture)
• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Recall To Fix Zippered Bean Bag Chairs.