Easy DIY Candy Corn Ring Toss {Fall Game to Play}

I think this DIY Candy Corn Game is perfect for all of those fall fun harvest celebrations. A fun Thanksgiving Game, Halloween Game, or Fall Game to play. It’s so simple to pull together and inexpensive too. Have fun playing ring toss with glow necklaces during the day and through the night as they light up the night. 

 

Candy Corn Ring Toss – Fall Game to Play

It’s no secret that I love everything about fall, foods for fall, and fall games to play. I love the crisp air, apple picking, pumpkin picking, and fall harvest fun. This picture just says fall fun to me. You know I love to keep things simple because none of us have time for the complicated stuff. This game is so easy to pull together which I love.

Carry this game from daytime to nighttime fun with glow necklaces and by using glow-in-the-dark paint. Perfect for fall nights and Halloween parties.

If you love fall as much as I do and you love to make memories with the family, then you might like my other game ideas like Leaf Pile Candy Hunt – It’s like a fun treasure hunt in a leaf pile. Pumpkin Sweep Fall Game to Play – A fun outdoor game for fall, Halloween, or these fun Thanksgiving Games to play Over 10 Minute to Win It Thanksgiving Games 

What I love about this Game

• This is an easy fall game that you can play at any fall festival or Halloween party
• Easy to set up and so much fun
• A fun fall game to play with kids, teens, and adults
• This game can be played during the day at school parties or festivals, or at night using glow necklaces

Supplies Needed:

A printable instruction card can be found below

• orange plastic safety cones – the super tall ones were a little too pricey for me. I wish they weren’t. The ones we played with are 9 inches tall. They are way more reasonable. I’ll provide an Amazon link, below
• yellow spray paint – I didn’t skimp on the spray paint. Get the good stuff that will stick the first time
• white spray paint – I bought Rustoleum Ultra Cover
• Glow necklaces – You’ll click these together to form a ring to toss with
• (Optional) Something to stand the Candy Corn Safety Cones on – like a hay-filled wagon or even hay bales

Instructions for Painting Candy Corn Cones

• Use some newspaper to cover the ground and spray paint the bottom of the cones yellow and the tips white

For Straight Lines

• I did not tape my cones off, because I do not mind uneven lines. If you look at Candy Corn, they aren’t perfect either. And, you know what?… The kids could care less that you spent an hour making perfect lines. However, you can use masking tape and newspaper to tape off sections of the traffic cone to obtain straight lines

Instructions on How to Play Classic Ring Toss

• Pick your teams and divide the target evenly between teams
• Decide on the distance away from the person to ring that’s challenging but doable. Standard rules say 15 ft. away, but glow necklaces might not have enough weight to be thrown that far and little kids might not be able to achieve 15 feet.
• To ensure that there is no cheating – It might be a good idea to place a marker down  to stand on or behind
• When you’re ready, start ringing

Alternative way to play

Teams should have different colored rings to differentiate between them for scoring. A player on team 1 throws all of his/her rings, then a player on team 2, uses his/her fings to throw at the stakes. After rings are thrown, points are calculated for each teams colored rin, and rings are collected for the next players in line

Scoring Ring Toss Games

Standard Rules to go by for a Classic Game of Ring Toss – (Adjust it according to your party’s needs):

• Rings  count as 2 points for a full ring and 1 point for a ring that is leaning on touching the target
• The first team to get to 21 points wins

Alternative ways to Score Ring Toss

This is another way I’ve heard you can score in ring toss

A full ring counts as 3 points

A double ringer – which is ringing the same stake twice counts as 6 points

No Ringers – the ring closest to the stake counts as one point. If the same team has 2 of the closest rings then they get 2 pointed

Expert Tips

I did learn that you don’t want to stand too close with the spray paint. If you get too close the paint will run. Listen to the instructions on the paint can, not the image below. That picture was just a visual instruction. Stand back and let the paint mist do the work

Ideas For Night Time Candy Corn Ring Toss

When I was thinking this through, I didn’t think about glow-in-the-dark paint for the cones. That would even be better. Maybe you can find some and kick it up a notch. Even without the glow-in-the-dark paint, it’s a ton of fun.

We had this near a backyard fire which shed some light on our targets. Just be sure you have a little light so you can see your Candy Corn Cones

One way to illuminate the Candy Cone Cones would be to place glow sticks near the cones to illuminate them at night

My top Amazon Picks for this Fun Candy Corn Game

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Happy Fall Y’all!

~Melissa – Kid Friendly Things To Do