Thanksgiving Crafts: Preschool Crafts : HAPPY CLAYPOT SCARECROW

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This craft was inspired by some found at Michaels, and modified for use with my kindergarteners. My two year olds were able to paint the pot, glue the hair and enjoyed watching me draw in the faces.

Materials:

- 3 1/2” clay pot
- Acrylic paint: White, Red, Midnight Blue
- Doll head or small ceramic pumpkin
- red felt
- 4 blue pipecleaners
- Raffia: about 100 pieces, 2” long
- Craft Glue
-Scissors
-Permanent Craft Marker

How To a Claypot Scarecrow

• 
  Paint your 3 1/2 inch clay pot Midnight Blue - let dry
  Paint your doll head orange (or use a ceramic pumpkin as shown)
  Wrap strips of Raffia with blue pipecleaner. (Two pipecleaners per arm) once you are done wrapping trim the "hands" with scissors to make them even.
  Cut a small tringle of red felt and glue to the inverted clay pot to create a bandanna
  Glue arms to inverted pot .
  Design a face on your scarecrow with a craft marker. (I had the children use simple circles for eyes, triangle nose and half circle mouth and circle cheeks.)
  Waste not those trimmed pieces from the "hands" glue them on for "hair"
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  OPTIONAL - add other fabric scraps for decor and a straw hat.

 

This project was modified from one found at Michaels Craft and Ben Franklin Crafts

 


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