bean bag chairs

[nibot]

I really want to get some bean bag chairs for our basement, and maybe some for our office at school. I wonder if I could make bean bag chairs by making or buying the covers, and filling them with styrofoam "peanuts" (shipping material), which seems like it would be easy to find. ideas?

I am also on a mission to acquire scraps of carpet left over from new carpet installations, with which to carpet the bomb shelter (hey, if we have to stay in there for the next 10,000 years, we might as well make it cozy).

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[fireflies100k.livejournal.com]

You're probably geometrically savvy enough to figure it out on your own, but I could help out with devising what shapes of fabric to sew together.

My concern with packing peanuts is that they would get squished and compacted and/or broken over time. I think the real stuffings are harder plastic.