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The word bean bag usually brings to our minds – the furniture item that we use in our houses. It brings to our minds, an image of a lazy Sunday afternoon when we are sitting on it and watching television.
However, a bean bag has many applications. A bean bag is actually a sealed bag that contains dried beans or what we call the PVC pellets. Bean bags are thus also used as an item or a prop in activities such as juggling.
Bean bag toss is a popular game in the US.
A ball-shaped bean bag that is often known as the footbag is used on other countries to play many kinds of games. Beanbags are used to mark the point of a change of possession in gridiron football. Thus, bean bags have many uses that one could have imagined.
In India, however, bean bag is associated with the furniture item. Bean bag are made of fabric and are filled with small chunks of PVC pellets (Styrofoam).
Beanbags were very popular even during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
They were popularly called as the ‘Physics Bag’ or ‘Oversized Sac’.
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