Thanksgiving CRAFTS: Preschool Craft SCARECROW

Finally, printable Thanksgiving Crafts & easy Fall crafts, This is an easy preschool craft.(look for the PRINT THIS PAGE button to create printable crafts instructions for home or the classroom). Create a variety of pumpkin crafts! Great ideas for decorating, gifts, kids, and much more. EASY Thanksgiving crafts and one-of-a-kind gifts or a festive fall decorations are found here. Designed with simple instructions and pictures make it possible for anyone to create Thanksgiving crafts they can be proud of.
Thanksgiving is a celebration of gratitude and food is a central part of the festivities.

Preschoolers will enjoy making this simple preschool craft as part of a preschool Fall Harvest theme.

PAPER PLATE SCARECROW (optional body)
What You’ll Need:

* pencil
* paper plate
*2 coffee filters
* google eyes
* glue
* yarn or yellow/brown construction paper
* scissors
* paper
* stapler
* two cardboard gift-wrap tubes
* tacky craft glue
* patches
* old shirt
* hole punch

How to Make It:

1.To make the head, draw a face on a paper plate. Glue or tie on yarn hair. Cut out a hat from paper, and staple it on. ...or do what my 2 year old did. Using an old paint plate that had dried she added cut construction paper hair, google eyes and a pom pom nose. Then we fashioned a hat from two coffee filters. One folded in half, the other folder in quarters to a point)

2.Staple the head on the end of a cardboard gift-wrap tube.
3.Use tacky craft glue to add patches to an old shirt. Slide another tube through the shirt sleeves.
4.Slide the tube with the attached head into the neck of the shirt. Use yarn to tie the tubes together where they intersect.
5.Glue short pieces of yarn around the tube ends.
6.Tie yarn around the shirt at the wrists and the waist.
7.Punch a hole in the tube at the top of the head, and tie on a yarn loop as a hanger.

Create a festive Thanksgiving decoration with this easy scarecrow craft or as part of a preschool Thanksgiving theme.

 

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I'm a little scarecrow
Stuffed with hay,
Standing watch in my field all day.
When I see a crow
I like to shout:
"Hey, Mr. Crow, you'd better get out!"