Create a garden scarecrow with your own hands - give yourself and your children a holiday!

A familiar picture, is not it: a house in the village, next to the house - a vegetable garden, on which every yummy grows. And above the garden sticks an anthropoid monster, seeing that, you can not refrain from a smile. Yes, you are right, it is the same, a scarecrow.

It is not clear why we need it right now: they say that birds, our faithful friends and at the same time are eager to go to garden "freebies", have learned to distinguish between a living person and a scoundrel made by him with his own hands. Others authoritatively declare: nonsense, the bird only knows how to recognize the silhouette of a person, and therefore still prefers to fly around the garden guarded by scarecrows. Still others shrug their shoulders: so what if the scarecrow more "does not work," but how beautiful it looks, how the landscape decorates!

Let's try to do two things at the same time - protect the garden and decorate the territory. Only if you are going to make a garden scarecrow with your own hands, be sure to take assistants and children's hands. First, the children will be in an indescribable ecstasy from the creative process. Secondly, they will not allow him to take it seriously as an adult and create a nightmare instead of a scarecrow . We just want to scare the birds away, and not bring a neighbor who accidentally glanced through the fence to a heart attack, right?

Do not think that the most difficult thing in a scarecrow is to create a head. On the contrary. It is enough to make a small bag of white cotton cloth, stuff it with straw and tie it tightly - it's ready. To paint the face will go oil or acrylic paints; The main thing is that they are not washed away by rain. But the most important thing is that the scarecrow's face should not have a wry smile, but a kind smile - never forget.

In general, the design of the garden scarecrow is extremely simple. The base is a long pole, sharpened on one side, and a crossbar, nailed to its upper third, proportional to the arms. It is on the top of the pole and the head of the "scarecrow" is planted.

Clothing for the garden scarecrow is suitable for any used. To make it more fun, you can additionally decorate it by having our colored "patches". To create a volume, after you put on a shirt and pants on the cross, stuff them from inside with a good straw. The edges of clothes need to be tightened tightly with string and tied. Well, if you find unnecessary gloves - a scarecrow from his gloves will wag his arms in the gusts of the wind. The same can be done with pants, if you do not fix them tightly, and sew to the shirt.

The process described above, of course, is the basis for creativity, which relies solely on the fantasy of the "parents" of the scarecrow. Perhaps, you want to make it more "humane" - with a scarf on the "neck", with funny clown striped socks, with a vest over a shirt. Perhaps, instead of a rigidly fixed pole, there will be a turning hinge, like a weather vane. Maybe it will be possible to build a wind rattle in the scarecrow - it is her sound that is guaranteed to scare off the garden of birds ...

In any case, make sure that the day when you create a scarecrow yourself, was illuminated by the joy of creativity, childish laughter and a kind smile of your "scarecrow".