How to Paint Corn Hole Boards DIY

If you look around on Google and Pinterest, you will see that there are lots of cute ways to paint cornhole boards! I am not the most artistic, however, so I decided to spray paint some easy to accomplish stripes on my boards.

I opted against staining my boards, since I read that stain on plywood can turn out blotchy.

I decided to prime the boards with some white spray paint primer. My boards were already smooth and didn't need sanding. I simply wiped the boards clean with a damp paper towel before beginning my project.

I decided to add five colors of stripes on my cornhole boards with white stripes in between the colorful stripes. (The white stripes will be where I put the Frog Tape down.)

The next step was to choose my colors. I already had two really pretty shades of blue spray paint and one shade on yellow on hand, so I decided to go with that. All I needed to purchase were two cans of white spray paint primer.

At first I simply spray painted each stripe on. But I discovered that I got some overspray from the wind. I wound up touching up those stripes by taping the outsides of each stripe with Frog Tape and then taping craft paper over the sections of the boards that I didn't want sprayed and worked on one stripe at a time.

It took me a while to fix the spots where I got overspray, so I'd suggest leaving only one stripe uncovered at a time so you can spray paint one stripe at a time.

Since it took me a while to clean up the overspray, I still need to add several layers of water-based polyurethane on top of the boards. (To give them some protection and to make the boards more slippery.) I will be applying the layers of polyurethane with a foam brush and will sand the boards smooth with fine grit sandpaper in between each coat.

In the meantime, my family and I have been enjoying the newly painted cornhole boards!