Following on from our 'How to draw a scarecrow' activity earlier in the week, and as part of our Autumn project, today we made our own scarecrow.
I was told that we weren't allowed to make him too scary though, in case he scared the chickens :)
This is a great free activity and also loads of fun. We used; some sticks we picked up on a walk in the woods, an old t shirt that no longer fits, an old pillowcase and some straw - borrowed from the chickens (fresh stuff obviously!).
The sticks were tied together to make a cross, the pillowcase was given a face and then stuffed. then that along with the t shirt attached over the top of the sticks.
We found it easier to stuff the t shirt after we had put it on and tied the bottom, but the head was a lot easy to fill first and then attach.
This is how he turned out:
This was definitely an outside activity, we ended up with straw everywhere! Including in our hair and all over the garden... In case you are wondering why he's in a flower pot, well the ground was too dry to 'plant' him and also I suspect he's not very weather proof, so has to be brought inside when the weather changes... currently he's in the conservatory...
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