Crystal Allison: I am Crystal Allison from Colvin Run Mill Historic Site and today we're
building a basic scarecrow and we're at the final step to building our
scarecrow. I'm going to take the upper body and put it with the lower body
and the way I'm going to do that is I'm going to take the shirt tail of the
shirt and tuck it as far in to the pants as I can get it. It’s important to tuck
the shirt in as far as you can so that your scarecrow won’t have an accident
and fall apart.
Once you've completed that, now you might want to look at your
scarecrow, does he seem a little on the thin side? Well, if that’s the case,
which I think mine is, unbutton the shirt and grab some hay and again try
to put it in length wise of the body so that your body will be as stiff as
possible and I'm going to continue doing this until I have a body shape
that I desire for my scarecrow. When you're happy with how full your
scarecrow is, or has a desired body shape, then you need to re-button the
shirt of the scarecrow. Remember to tuck the front of the shirt in as far as
it will go in to the pants of your scarecrow. Now, I'm going to fasten the
pants of my scarecrow and I'm ready to tie some pieces of twine onto the
belt loops of my scarecrow.
These pieces of twine are about a yard long and they're going to become
the suspenders for my scarecrow and these suspenders will hold my
scarecrow together so that the bottom half does not come away from the
top half. I tied the twine to the front two belt loops. Now, I'm going to
gently turn my scarecrow over because I don’t want him to fall apart at
this point, I'm going to find my twine and then I'm going to tie it to the
back belt loop and at this point you might want to either tie it to the middle
belt loop or if your string is long enough to cross your suspenders in the
back. Then you want to put some pressure on this because you do want
your scarecrow to stay together and to remember that the twine will stretch
some as the days go on and you have this outside. Now, you have a basic
scarecrow.
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