Things You'll Need:
- Jeans
- Button up shirt with collar
- Boots
- Plastic garbage sacks
- Leaves or crumpled newspaper
- Brown twine
- Pumpkin
- Craft paints
- Straw hat
- Thick craft wire
- Tree with low branches
- Fishing line
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Step 1
Turn a pumpkin upside down. Have an assistant hold the pumpkin in place while you paint a scarecrow face. Turn the pumpkin right side up and let the paint dry completely.
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Step 2
Fill two plastic garbage sacks with leaves or crumpled newspaper. Slide each filled sack into the legs of the jeans. Tuck the jean legs into a pair of boots. Secure the boots to the jeans by tying the bottom of the pants with rope.
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Step 3
Load three more sacks with leaves. Stuff two of the sacks in the shirt sleeves and one in the body of the shirt. Tuck the shirt into the pants and pin it in place with safety pins.
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Step 4
Push a 2-foot long wire into each shirt sleeve. Leave 6 inches extending at the cuffs.
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Step 5
Place the hat on the ground, upside down, next to a tree with low branches. Place the pumpkin on the hat.
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Step 6
Wrap fishing line several times around each boot. Hang the scarecrow, from the boots, on a tree branch. Hang the body low enough so that the collar of the shirt rests on the pumpkin head. Tie the fishing line to the tree.
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Step 7
Spread the arms apart and then push the wire into the ground. Position the arms so that it looks like the Halloween pumpkin head scarecrow is doing a handstand.
