The nuclear family has changed over the years and continues to adjust and grow and the dynamics that once made families strong can be a bit too easy to let fall by the wayside. It’s important to bring people together and enjoy family time, and this doesn’t include watching television in the family room. While television is nice, it’s also addicting and it doesn’t promote healthy, heartfelt interaction between members of the family unit.
Getting outside and playing games with adults and children is one of the best, and healthiest, ways to spend time with your family. It doesn’t really matter what you do as long as you’re all together and enjoying it. There are numerous sports and activities that families can share including baseball, volleyball, badminton, soccer, and tennis, to name a few. But if you’re looking for something a bit more exciting, and something that everyone can compete at and laugh with, then the cornhole game is the answer for you cornhole distance.
Cornhole for the ages
The cornhole game became popular in the Midwest a couple of decades ago, though its origins are considered murky. Some claim that it started in Cleveland, but there are references to a very similar game dating back to Europe in the fifteenth century. Wherever it originated, cornhole has increased in popularity in recent years.
It’s a simple game that is played with bean bags and two cornhole boards in which the players toss the bean bags with the intention of getting them through a six-inch hole in the board. While the regulation distance for the boards is 27 feet apart from one another, families can determine, on their own, what works best. It is also perfectly normal and natural to allow younger children to stand closer to the cornhole boards since their strength and agility will be less than the adults.
Cornhole doesn’t discriminate
Perhaps the best thing about the cornhole game for families is that it doesn’t discriminate based on age, size, or strength. Certainly ability and practice will make a difference, but it is easy to handicap a member of the family who has either natural talent or simply practices a great deal more than anyone else in the family. For example, you can make Uncle Rob -who plays in cornhole tournaments around the country- stand ten, fifteen, or even twenty feet further back when he throws his tosses. Wherever he has to stand to even the playing field will work.
Cornhole boards are simple to store and setup, which means that anytime is a good time to play cornhole. It doesn’t have to be reserved for special occasions, such as a birthday or anniversary party or even a reunion; cornhole can be played everyday, if a family chooses.
Cornhole is such an easy and versatile game and offers hours of entertainment for the entire family. It goes without saying that family time should be spent laughing, talking, and simply being together. With cornhole, you get the added bonus of being outside with the ones you love.