How to make scarecrow for giving with your own hands. Examples of garden frightened, stages of creation

In order to protect your crops from bird encroachment, people have used garden frightened since a long time. It was also believed that the stuffed was able to remove the evil eye and damage from the owners of the land plot. The efficiency of using straw men was not proved, and over time, this element of the garden has lost its popularity. Despite this, some gardeners still establish frightened on their lands in both practical and purely decorative purposes.

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Today, the subject of attention will be the various ways of creating garden stuffed. Relying on our advice, you can make a scarecrow for the cottage of the classic view that will scare the unnecessary feathery from your site. In addition, this article will tell you how to install the original and unusual figure in the garden as a design element.

Basic Chounda Requirements

In order for the doll scared the birds, it needs to be made as much as possible on a real person.
Great growth of the shape and bright, motley paints in its design will become an additional frightening factor.
Scarecrow in the garden should be located in the right place. The closer it will stand to a guarded subject, the better. For greater efficiency, you can make several dolls and arrange them in different parts of the garden.

Classic scarecrow

Create the usual scarecrow with their own hands is quite simple and cheap. No need to buy many special devices and materials, most of the necessary elements can be found in economic covers, and some means to draw apart separately.

What do you need?

two wooden planks with a length of approximately 1.5 and 2 meters;
rough bag;
unnecessary old clothes, preferably bright colors;
straw for packing;
feltolsters or waterproof paints;
ribbons, beads, buttons, bells, loskutka and any other fittings.

The process of creating a garden doll is quite simple and consists of the following actions:

First you need to make a frame. For this, wooden planks are fasten together like a cross. Remember that for the maximum realism of the figure, the proportions of the human body must be observed, while also consider the fact that the longer pole will be partially bought into the ground. Based on these considerations, you feed the short bar at the right altitude.
Next stage make the head scared. For this bag fill the straw and give it the shape of the ball. As you carefully, tie the edges in order that the insides are not poured out.
Draw a face. It is best to use uneasy paints for these purposes - so your doll will love any rain perfectly.
After giving the chute human traits, make him hair. They can be made of thin ropes, multicolored ribbons or put on an artificial head an old hat.
Making scarecrow in the country with their own hands, it must be adjusted. First of all, we put the shirt on the crossbar so that the horizontal cane was to be extended to the sleeve. Shirt, try to choose a bright, although fit any unnecessary thing.
Butt the clothes on all buttons, the bottom is tightly tied with a rope around the pole.
In order to make the hands, tamp large straw gardening gloves and put them on both ends of the horizontal bar. Tuck edges of the sleeves and gloves in tightly strapped to the frame.
After that, scroll the shirt as much as possible straw, hay, herbs or cloths. You can use any convenient material except paper that does not transfer one rain. The more packing you spend - the more dense the figure of your stuffed.
After registration of the torso, you can fasten your head. To do this, with the help of a wire tight tie a bag to the top end of the pole.
Then make a doll legs from old pants, also filled with stuffing. Sew them from all over and attach to the scarecrow the upper part. The legs themselves should be free to break into the wind, creating the visibility of movement. When forming hands and feet stuffed, also remember the observance of human proportions.
The feet can be made from boots or stuffed straw socks, tightly tied to the pants.
Find a suitable place in the garden for stuffed and insert it into the ground by 30-40 cm, check the stability of the shape.

Before making scarecrow to the garden, pay attention to several tips:

filling the inhilities of the garden stuffed is best with light materials - so it will be more stable;
cellophane or polyethylene packages are perfect for packing, since only they do not absorb water at all and, moreover, have low weight;
in the absence of the house of old things, purchase them at any secondhand store.
you can fasten the details of the figure using a pin, fishing, wire, hot glue, a thread with a needle. The main rule is to do firmly and conscience;
facefront facial attachment give any expression: terrible, sad, funny, surprised, etc.;
to the hands of a straw person you can attach various items: umbrella, broom, broom, rake, old garden watering can;
for better avoidance of birds, tie the bells, metal cans or any light linking items to the chound.

Scarecrow from plastic containers

Empty plastic bottles - poorly processed and nobody desired trash. But even they can benefit, serving to you as free material to create a stuffed. So, for the cheapest garden frightening you will need:

different in size and color plastic packaging;
covers from bottles;
elastic, rope or lace;
wire;
knife, scissors, awl and stapler.

Collect a doll using the following actions:

The body of the figure can be made from an empty plastic canister or tank. With the help of wire or bolts in the center of the torso, attach buttons from multicolored caps.
Make a head of five-liter water tank. First cut the bottom, then with a stapler pin to her ears, mouth and eyes. Top to fit the old hat.
Through the headdress and the neck of the tank skip the lace, leaving the long end to further attach the head to the torsicle.
Limbs make out of the same bottles. You will need 2 table tanks, 4 for feet and 2 for the feet.
In the lids and bottoms of the bottles, pinched the hole with a sequel and drive the container on the gum.
As the next stage, collect scarecrow together with the help of the free ends of the lace and rubber bands. In order for you to conveniently proceed them inside the tank, you need to cut hole holes on its bottom.
To determine the feathers, it is possible to equip the scarecrow belt and the necklace of bottled covers or other materials.

Unusual options for garden frightened

The straw person can be used not only as a tool for intimidating birds, but also as a distinctive element of landscape design. Having thought about how to make scarecrow, show fantasy and originality, and in this article we will look at some unusual and creative versions of garden stuffed

Scarecrow-beauty

Such a figure in your garden will surprise others and please the owners and guests. From the materials you will need:

bag or old pillowcase;
dense light cloth for the head;
children's tights;
gloves;
syntheps or straw;
old unnecessary women's clothing.

Such a scarecrow is going on the same principle as the classic option, only clothes for it are chosen from the female wardrobe. A doll must have a waist, to emphasize which can be using a strap or belt. As additional accessories you can put on the figure of ribbons, bows, beads, necklaces, and to give an openwork umbrella from the sun or handbag.

"Live" scarecrow

If you are ready to spend enough time and effort to create a garden doll, you can make the original "living" scarecrow. To do this, in the store for the sale of electronics will have to purchase some details: LEDs, motion sensors, swivel mechanisms, control panels, various audio instruments.

Armed with the necessary materials and its own fantasy, you can make a very unusual stuffy. It will be able to turn the head and move the hand to respond by a person or animal by various sounds or movements. The doll eyes can also be revived using built-in LEDs that will be included from the network or from touching the figure.