Harvest Time Scarecrow
By: Alexandra Bleicher
Finished size: 15 tall
Skill level: beginner
Crafting time: less than 2 hours, excluding drying time
This little fellow wont scare away your friends and family, but welcome them with his country charm. Hang him on your front door or in your entry. Few materials required; wooden pieces, fabric scraps, raffia, wire, fiberfill stuffing, hat and paint. Project is simple to paint with some dry brushed detailing. Material cost is under $10.00.
Materials
Wooden pieces: 2 x 5 戮 wing banner; 2 戮 disk or frozen juice can lid, *1/16 thick pieces: 7/8 teardrops, four (crow wings); 7/8 hearts, two (crow bodies); 戮 circles, three (crow heads and sunflower center); 7/8 ovals, twelve (flower petals)
5 straw hat
Raffia
19 gauge craft wire 30 length
录 black satin ribbon, 12 length
Fabric scraps: 5 x 8 brown plaid, 5 x 10 light blue
Black fine tip permanent marker
Fiberfill stuffing, small amount
录 black snaps, two
*Acrylic paint: Linen, Glazed Carrot, Burgundy, Licorice, Burnt Umber, Sunny Yellow, Buckskin Brown
*Forsters 庐 Woodsies and FolkArt庐 Acrylic paints by Plaid 庐 Enterprises were used for this project.
Supplies: scissors, glue gun and glue sticks, paintbrush, toothpick, paper plate, paper towel, pencil.
Instructions
Paint pieces as follows: banner Buckskin Brown, ovals Sunny Yellow, one small circle Buckskin Brown, large disk Linen and remaining pieces Licorice. Let dry. Dry brush banner edges with Linen.
Face. Using picture as guide dry brush cheeks on linen disk with Burgundy, paint triangular nose in Glazed Carrot and let dry. With black marker draw mouth, eyes and stitch lines around nose. Wrap a few strands of raffia around four fingers, remove loops and tie center with another piece of raffia knotting to secure. Cut lopped ends and glue knot to center top of face. Glue hat to top of head.
Hands and feet. Take one strand of raffia and wrap around two fingers, remove loops from fingers and tie one end with a small piece of raffia. Trim untied end. Repeat three more times. Set aside.
Top. Cut two 戮 1 square patches from brown plaid fabric. Cut remainder into a 4 x 8 rectangle. Fold fabric piece with right side in and glue long sides together to form a tube, let cool. Turn tube right side out and stuff with fiberfill stuffing. Glue one hand, knotted side in to each end of tube. Cut two 3 lengths from raffia and tie sleeves. Glue to bottom back of face. Cut a 7 length from black ribbon, tie into a bow and glue to center front neckline.
Pants. With right sides together glue long sides of blue fabric, let cool. Turn tube right side out and stuff with fiberfill stuffing. Cut two 3 length of raffia. Glue one foot into each end of tube and tie with raffia. Bend pants into a 90o angle and secure with a dab of glue between legs. Hold in place while cooling. Glue one patch to each pant leg. Glue center top of pants to center bottom of top. Wrap remaining length of black ribbon around waist for belt, secure with glue.
Crows. Dry brush edges of all Licorice pieces with Buckskin Brown. Glue rounded end of two teardrops to pointy end of one heart, then glue one Licorice circle on top of teardrops. With Glazed Carrot paint beak and dot eyes with Wicker White, let dry. Use black marker to draw nostrils. Repeat with second crow. Glue one crow to right shoulder of scarecrow and second crow to left side of banner. Tie a length of raffia into a multi loop 1 陆 bow, glue below crow on banner for nest.
Sunflower. Dry brush edges of Buckskin Brown circle with Burnt Umber and edges of Sunny Yellow circles with Glazed Carrot. Glue petals all around circle and glue flower to right side of banner.
Hanger. Wrap one end of wire around left wrist of scarecrow. Loosely wrap the next 8 of wire around pencil to curl. Thread wire through left hole of banner. Now loosely wrap approx. 10 of wire around pencil to curl. Thread wire through hole on right side of banner. Curl remaining wire around pencil and wrap end around right wrist of scarecrow.
Finishing. With black marker write Harvest Time on center of banner. Wrap one end of wire around left wrist of scarecrow. Loosely wrap wire the next 8 of wire around pencil to curl.
~From the Crone's Cottage website
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