The Bagging of Beans

Ever since we started on the transformation of the office into a little play room we have gone back and forth on what sort of seating we will have in there.  We debated on putting some sort of chaise lounge type of chair against the wall but the space is a little tight and we don't want to take up a ton of space with a chair that may or may not really be used.  (This is a child's play area.  Children sit and play on the floor in most cases and if that's where Kate is, that is where we are, so a chair could very well turn into decoration.)

We also wanted something cost effective (read: cheap) because it is going in a play room and the potential of juice, marker, paint, mud, chocolate, pb & j, [fill in the blank here] stains are endless.  (We don't promote eating outside of the kitchen or running rampant with dirty hands or feet, but we're just thinking realistically here.)

We happened upon the idea of putting bean bag chairs in the play room and we both really liked the idea, so we began searching for them.  We found expensive ones and not so expensive ones; boring ones and crazy ones.  We found every color, shape, and size imaginable, but it wasn't until we weren't looking for bean bag chairs that we happened upon two perfect ones: a purple polka dot one and a green polka dot one that match our purple and green colors in the room perfectly!

How cute are those chair covers?!  And they match perfectly!

They are DIY bean bag chairs so we had to buy the beans to go with them too.  Fortunately, both were right next to each other and all we had to do was pour the beans into the bean bag chairs and we had two perfect chairs.



Seems simple enough, right?!

Uh, wrong.

The beans in the bean bags were super static-y and they clung to anything and everything.  The mere act of rubbing them off seemed to create more static electricity which caused more beans to attach to whatever and wherever!  They did not let go at all unless they were rubbed with dryer sheets, which we SO ended up doing, so by the end of the bagging of these beans we were all rubbing static please un-cling these beans dryer sheets all over us to release the escaped beans.  (That genius idea was compliments of yours truly!)

We managed to unload all of our beans and fill our two perfectly matched polka dot bags to our desired beanocity.  (Bean + Density = Beanosity.)  Of course we took lots of photos and a little video along the way!

Playing with the bags-o-beans before we fill our bean bags.

Still playing...

...still playing...

...and still playing!

Uh oh.  Farm Boy is about to get rolled over by a bag of beans.

"Here, Mama.  You can hold Farm Boy while we play."

Static beans!

Bless her little heart.  Kate knew exactly where the escaped beans
should go.

And she loved being able to help manage the beans!

Jumping beans.

This blurry photo is Kate trying to rid herself of the bean attachments.

It didn't last long.

 

 Here is video evidence of the static cling these beans produced!

 



Kate thought taking her socks off would help,
but I think it may have made the cling worse!

Beans were literally EVERYWHERE!

Beaned Cleaned up and taking the bean bag chairs for a test run!

To me, Kate looks so big but so little in this picture!

And, last but not least, our iPhone favorite.

Did I mention that we beaned these bags at Mary and Tom's house?!  That may or may not have been Brian's idea!  We cleaned up very well, however, and the only beans left in the house were/are the ones we don't yet know about!  :)  Thanks for the hospitality for this project, Mimi & Papaw!