Halloween Madness: Rolly Poley Scarecrow

You may have seen my my rolly poley scarecrow hanging out near my burlap pumpkin last week.  Now I'm going to show you how to make your own!

This one I made for my sister.

To make your own, you'll need:

Halloween or Fall-themed fabric

Raffia

Felt to match your fabric

A small twig

One large (1 1/2 in.) wooden ball and two small (1/2 in.) wooden balls

Black paint

Hot glue and gun

Needle and thread

Polyfill

Small straw hat

Rice

Take your fabric, fold it in half and cut out a semi circle.  

So it looks like this.  You can skip the folding and just cut out a circle about 9 inches wide.

 

For the arms, cut out a rectangle 6 1/2 x 4 inches.

Fold the rectangle in half and stitch the edges together.

Turn right-side out and stitch one end close.  Then stuff with polyfill and then stitch closed the other end.

So it looks like this.

For the torso, take the circle and stitch around the edge and gather it together, but don't tie it off yet.  

Leaving a small opening in the circle, pour a small amount of rice in to act as a weight.  Then fill with polyfill, pull tight to close and tie closed.

Glue the arms onto the torso, like so.

To make the collar, take a piece of your felt, cut a small circle, 

 then cut triangles out to make the edges look like this.

 

Glue the collar in the center of the center of the arms, and glue some small pieces of raffia underneath to look like straw.

For the face, take the large wooden bead and paint a face mine.  I did mine like a jack-o-lantern.  

Allow to dry then glue on top of collar.

Take your small straw hat, and hot glue small pieces of raffia inside, almost all of the way around.

Then glue onto the head.

Like this.

For the hands, you can glue on the small balls on either

 end of the arms and tuck in some raffia 

Or you can make straw hands by gluing some raffia in place before sewing up the ends.

For a little added touch, you can make him a broom.  Take your small stick and some bits of raffia and wrap a long piece around to hold them in place and glue the ends down.

And there you go!

Fall Craftyness-Flower Pot Scarecrow

Flower Pot Scarecrow
Materials

Medium-sized flower pot
Tan, yellow, orange, white, and black paint
Fall-themed fabric (enough to go around the pot and tie a bow)
Rafia
Small straw hat
Silk flowers (I used sunflowers)

Paint the flower pot tan and let dry completely-to save time, you can spray paint it instead of handpainting it. Once pot is dry, transfer scarecrow face to pot (to do this, use tracing paper and draw your face on the paper with pencil, then flip over so that the pencil side is in contact with the pot and trace over it, which will transfer the pencil to the pot.) Paint the nose yellow, the cheeks orange-allow to dry before adding the mouth and eyes in black. Using the handle end of the paintbrush, do a dot of white on each eye for the pupil. Glue on rafia for hair. Let dry and then glue on hat. Add flowers. For the final touch, tie the strip of fabric around the bottom. Glue to keep in place.