Our finished
scarecrow!
A couple of weeks
ago we finished making our scarecrow at school and entered him in a
competition at our local garden show. We decided to do something really
different for our scarecrow and put him on an old bike. Another teacher worked
with me and we began constructing our scarecrow from recycled materials.
Firstly we spayed
the whole bike white and cut up old plastic table cloths to weave around the
spokes of the bike. This was a great project alone and would make a fabulous
garden ornament.
We found an old
basket and the children painted it in pastel colours.
We have been
talking about farms and farm animals at school. This week I cut up some old
bamboo blinds that had been given to me into a variety of different lengths.
These were used at our playdough table as fences for the farm, paddocks and
hurdles for the horses. The green playdough was used to secure the fences. It
was food for the animals and also grass and foliage for our farm. This was a
very popular activity today.
The the play dough farm. Great fun for little ones. Super scarecrow too. WE will hit our summer carnival and scarecrow season soon, love this idea.
ReplyDeleteLove the recycled scarecrow! Thanks for linking to Whimsy Wednesday!
ReplyDeleteCute scarecrow! Thanks for sharing with us at Eco-Kids Tuesday! Hope you stop by again! http://likemamalikedaughter.blogspot.com/2013/05/eco-kids-tuesday_21.html
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