Scarecrow's

I am soo excited that it is finally fall!! It is my all time favorite time of the year. I am tired of the 90 degree heat and have really enjoyed the cooler weather. We had Young Women's a few weeks ago and I was in charge of the activity. Years ago in Moab ( we're talking about 10 years ago) I was a craft leader for 4H. I loved doing it and was sad to have to stop doing it up here in Tooele. One of our projects years ago was making these cute little scarecrows. I had about 13 left over and have been storing them for all these years. Finally I had a excuse to use them.

 Here is the list of supplies that you need if you want to make these. a small pot, green foam, small dowel, raffia, foam pumpkin, burlap, moss, pinecones, peice of string and leaves to decorate with. You will also need your handy dandy hot glue gun.

 First of all I cut my green foam so it would fit into the pot. I just used a butter knife and then hot glued it to the bottom of the pot. Make sure you put the hot glue on the pot first and not the foam or it will melt. Learned that one the hard way.

 Then I cut a hole in the foam pumpkin and inserted the dowel and glued it in. I got the pumkins at Walmart on clearance last year. They came eight in a box so it was super cheap, plus I bought them when they went to 50 cents a box.

 I then cut a retangle peice of burlap. It doesn't have to be perfect. I then folded it in half and made a tiny cut in the middle of the fold and pushed the dowel through it.

 I then hot glued it to the top of the pumpkin. I then took a handful of raffia and tied them in the middle with a peice of wire. Then tired the wire to the dowel and hot glued it in place.

 Once that was done I put glue on the wood and stuck it into the foam.

 I then hot glued the moss to the top of the foam covering it and decorated it using small pumpkins, pinecones, and fall leaves.

We used a sharpie to draw a face on our scarecrow and a small peice of string to tie the burlap around the dowel. And there you have it! Super easy scarecrows! The one in the left I made, middle Emalee made and the right Kiersten made.