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Giant Scarecrow

9/29/2020

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giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten
This is one of our favorite fall craft projects to make!!  We do it over a span of two to three days but you can adjust it to fit the needs of your early learners.  We use large sheets of construction paper (usually sold right next to the regular sized construction paper) but if you do not want to make giant scarecrows you can scale the project down to make smaller ones.
giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten
You can either have the pieces already cut out for younger children to put together or have guide pieces set out for the children to use as a reference for cutting their scarecrow pieces.

You will need to have a head ... hat ... pants ... shirt body ... sleeves ... straw ... eyes and a nose.  You will also need to have various colors of tissue paper that has been cut or torn into squares.

giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten
Once all of the pieces have been cut out it is time to put them all together.  You can put them together any way you wish but I found that we had the most success starting with the head and working our way down.

The hat gets glued at the very top of the head and the shirt body on top of the bottom of the head.  You want to make sure to leave enough room  to make a face on the head.

giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten
The sleeves the next to get glued on and they should be glued behind the shirt body.  The sleeves can be angled in any direction.
giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten
The pants are glued under the bottom of the shirt.  We used three inch long strips of yellow paper glued to the bottom of the hat ... arms ... and legs to represent straw.
giant scarecrow craft project for preschool and kindergarten
We glued the eyes and nose on the scarecrow head and also drew a mouth with a marker. The last step was to glue the tissue paper squares on the scarecrow.

You can see a video of this project below:

14 Comments
Lottie
10/23/2015 09:23:33 am

So much in love with your site! I love this project! Thanks for everything you share with us.

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Shelley
10/13/2016 07:09:38 am

Thank you so much Lottie!

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Beth
10/23/2015 09:25:07 am

omg shelley I love it. I was just at staples and bought the larger size of construction paper and now i have a wonderful project for my daycare children to do with it!!

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Shelley
10/13/2016 07:10:23 am

Thank you so much Beth!! I hope your daycare children enjoyed the project!!

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Jessica Austin
10/23/2015 09:42:49 am

My kids love this we will do this on today

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Shelley
10/13/2016 07:11:13 am

Thank you Jessica!!

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Jennifer
10/27/2015 04:19:20 pm

Hi Shelley! I absolutely LOVE your activities and follow you every week. I have used several of your project ideas in my class. Is there any way you could share a template with us/tracers for the scarecrow project? Thank you so much for all your hard work and dedication to sharing your creativity with the masses!

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Shelley
10/13/2016 07:15:24 am

Hi Jennifer ... I'm sorry that I am so late in responding. I actually do not have a template for the scarecrow pieces as they pieces are too large for normal paper. The pieces themselves are pretty simple to cut using the photo/video as a guide.

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Tammy
10/14/2016 08:27:55 am

This is so cool. Love your items you have. Thank you for A Home Daycare Provider on a budget. I am not. I am not a high paying like lot of providers are.

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Shelley
10/14/2016 05:07:13 pm

Thank you so much Tammy!!

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Carolyn Caskie
10/27/2016 01:53:09 pm

Where can I find the pattern to your scarecrow. Thank you . To cute would love to make one for my open house .

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Shelley
10/27/2016 03:18:55 pm

Hi ... these are oversized pieces that do not fit on a normal sheet of paper so there is not a pattern. Everything is cut by free hand using the photo of the scarecrow body parts as a guide. They are all basic shapes so you should be able to cut them without much trouble.

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Nicole
10/29/2019 09:21:44 pm

I would love to do this project with my kindergarten class. Do you have to dimensions for the scarecrow pieces?

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Patricia
11/7/2019 05:36:37 am

Love this project

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