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Barry's Pumpkin Scarecrow

Create a Scarecrow with a Light-up Artificial Pumpkin

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/barrys-pumpkin-scarecrow • Posted by BarryBelcher

Scarecrows are created to scare and prevent critters from coming in the garden yet, most are not scary! If they only had a brain, they would realize their focus on scaring off and preventing is actually creating more of the very same thing. Hocus pocus focus! It's a no-brainer...as whatever you focus on with strong feelings, you will create! When you focus on what you love, you will realize you have a brain that creates the very thing you desire. Create on purpose today and make this scary pumpkin scarecrow!

You will need

Project Budget
Almost Nothing

Time

2 h 00

Difficulty

Pretty Easy
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Description

Scarecrows are created to scare and prevent critters from coming in the garden yet, most are not scary! If they only had a brain, they would realize their focus on scaring off and preventing is actually creating more of the very same thing. Hocus pocus focus! It's a no-brainer...as whatever you focus on with strong feelings, you will create! When you focus on what you love, you will realize you have a brain that creates the very thing you desire. Create on purpose today and make this scary pumpkin scarecrow!

Instructions

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    Take a plastic pumpkin and take the light out from the back.

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    Spray paint the back of pumpkin with black paint and fade it in the front of pumpkin face allowing some of the orange to show through.

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    Using acrylic paint, give the pumpkin more dimension with your yellow and white paint. Use black paint to draw in black lines and shade.

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    Set aside pumpkin to allow it to dry.

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    Take a cheap scarecrow and remove its head and legs.

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    Using floral wire, bind his upper body then lower his legs and wire them to the bottom. This will give the scarecrow a skinny scarier look.

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    Find some sticks that look like long arms and wire them to the scarecrow's shoulders.

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    Spray paint the entire body with black paint.

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    Cut a hole to the side of your scarecrow's neck stick and use hot glue to seal it.

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    Fold brown fabric long enough to cover his body and cut bottom into slits by cutting and ripping.

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    At the fabric fold, cut halfway and drape over scarecrow's shoulders.

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    Drape black Halloween mesh.

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    Use a battery multi-color LED tea-light and stick it in the pumpkin.

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    Drape string lights along scarecrow's shoulders.

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    Hot glue small plastic pumpkins to his hand that looks raised up.

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    Glue a closet touch light on the arm to spotlight pumpkins.

  17. Watch video tutorial.