Do-it-Yourself Indoor/Outdoor Pouf

Ok...I'm calling this a pouf because the concept is the same, however it is definitely a king size version of a traditional pouf.  This thing is huge!  When I thought this project up in my head, I was sitting in the backyard watching my son play on the lawn with his little plastic chairs and I was thinking "wouldn't it be great to have something he could use outside as a table where he could rest his snack on, but also something versatile enough so that he could lay and play on it too?".  And this is what I came up with!

It is perfect for lounging on in the backyard!

It wasn't very difficult to make.  I followed the guidelines here for making a smaller floor pouf, and just made mine larger.  My dimensions are: 48"x27" for the top and bottom pieces and all of the sides are 13" high.  I used indoor/outdoor fabric that I found for a good price online at Warehouse Fabrics Inc.  And I also used upholstery/canvas thread and a heavy duty needle for sewing jean material.  I basically sewed all the pieces together and sewed a 22" zipper on one edge.  I will admit that I was pretty nervous to start sewing this because I don't really know how to sew well...and when it came time to sew the corners, I got really nervous!  I had no idea how that was going to work.  But it just worked!  And when it came time to sew on the zipper I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do about that because I never sewed  a zipper before so...all I did was hem the edges and pin the zipper on each side (open the zipper up when doing this) and sewed it on.  There really was nothing fancy about this.  I'm sure it could have been accomplished with some fancy sewing maneuvers, but winging it worked just as well!

I used bean bag fill to fill mine up.  So far I have put 300 litres of fill in it and I feel that it could still use some more.  I sort of like the playful squishy-ness of the pouf as it is right now though, so it might stay like this for a while.

My son and his friends already love to jump all over it!

It is going to be a fun summer!