Refill a Bean Bag For FREE
Refill A Bean Bag For Free!
Check out our latest project! Let me show you how to Refill a Bean Bag For FREE! If you have a bean bag or two in your home then you have probably had the same problem I am about to describe to you. My kids got these really cute, bright orange bean bag chairs for Christmas. We wanted these to go in their playroom, which I completely re-did in January. We put them next to some shelves with lots of books and their favorite games. It was perfect. But just a few months after getting these comfortable little seating spots, they looked HORRIBLE! The filling had really broken down and you sunk straight to the floor when you sat in them. Needless to say, I quickly noticed our kids not using them and spending less and less time in the playroom I had just made fabulous! This is what we now had.
Don’t let the picture fool you! It may still look fluffy and comfortable on the bottom, but it’s not! There’s a big gap in the middle. Now, you can buy a bag of re-fill and simply add more of those beads. You can order it online and have it come straight to the house. But then I have to pay for shipping and what do I do in a couple of months if the new filling breaks down too?? I know this is an easier option, but I wanted to try something else. I had an idea!! You know those plastic shopping bags from the grocery store? I started saving them every time I bought groceries and that was going to be my new filling. Now let me be specific on this, any grocery bags that had cold stuff, milk or meat in them I did not save. I only kept the bags that had dry foods in them. It took us some time, but fairly quickly we had a little stock pile of them!
I got a little bit ahead of myself when we did this project and started working on one bag before I took pictures. So these bags are just for one chair. I had another pile of bags that I had already put in another chair. Before you open up your bean bag, turn it upside down and shake the filling away from the zipper. Ours has a double zipper and I found a little trick to making it easier to open. Take a paperclip and slide one of the ends into the hole on the zipper slider. This will give you a little handle to open it up.
Once you open up the bag, this is what it will look like. These are those little Styrofoam balls. Be careful not to spill them, they will stick to you and anything else. We had a great little experience when my daughter stuck her hand all the way in the bean bag!
Now just add your bags! We did ours one by one and crunched the bags up into a ball. Then just stuff it into the bag. As you add more bags, just push them further down. The kids helped with this part and it didn’t take long at all. This is what the inside will look like now!
Now, just zip the bean bag back up, fluff it up a bit and enjoy your latest project! If you are dealing with this same issue, now you can Refill a Bean Bag For Free! Be sure to take a look at all of our other crafts HERE!
