Happy New Year everyone! This is Britni again from Play. Party. Pin., and I’m excited to be sharing this simple DIY field goal post project with you that’s perfect to use as a prop for football parties!
My family absolutely loves football, so I thought it would be fun to setup a party table like a football field complete with these DIY football goal posts. They are so simple to make with just a few things you can pick up at your local hardware store. The instructions below make two equal sized field goal posts to put on either end of your table.
Supplies:
- One 3/4 inch x 10 foot white PVC pipe cut into the following sizes (you’ll have a little bit of extra)
- Four 12 inch pieces
- Six 6 inch pieces
- Four 3/4 inch elbow connectors
- Four 3/4 inch tee connectors
- Yellow spray paint
- Black spray paint
Instructions:
Step 1 – Put together your pieces to form the shape of a goal post using the visual below. You will only be using two of the tee connectors in this step, not all four.
Step 2 – Spray paint your two goal posts yellow. Stand up and allow to dry. While the goal posts are drying, spray paint the second tee connectors black and allow to dry.
Step 3 – Once all of the paint is dry, add the black tees to the bottom of your goal posts to make for easier standing. The goal posts should stand okay on a flat surface. If you’re putting them on a not so flat surface, you can add a coaster or other flat surface to help level the posts for standing.
And now you have perfectly sized field goal posts for your football party! Here’s a sneak peek of a football party I threw last week during the college football play-offs. You can see the rest of the party details on my blog early next week.
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Thanks for the post! There have been a number of times when I wanted my own football goal post to put out in my backyard. These instructions make it seem a lot easier to make than I originally thought. PVC pipe with elbow and tee connectors seem like the obvious choice now that I think about it. I bet I could make a larger goal post than the display in the picture, so using these same instructions will make it possible to make them large enough to use for playing football in my backyard.