Scarecrow mask scream. Terrible beauty, or do-it-yourself garden scarecrow. How to make a scary garden scarecrow with your own hands

Since ancient times, to protect the crop from feathered raiders, gardeners placed scarecrows on the site. In the 21st century, this tradition not only did not disappear, but also developed: scarecrows became more fashionable and attractive.

Making a garden scarecrow

Settled to protect the ripening crop in the garden or in the garden, a garden scarecrow can be made, as in the famous song, "from what was." But it is very important that it not only cope with the task of scaring away birds, but also decorate the place on the site where it registered for residence.

A scarecrow should be not only functional, but also attractive.

Preparation of materials and tools

There are many options for creating a garden scarecrow, but the principle of operation is the same: clothes are put on a wooden frame of intersecting poles and the head is attached. The rest is the details that make each scarecrow unique.

The principle of creating a scarecrow is very simple.

frame

The frame can be made from two slats of suitable size, boards and even sticks, which are crossed at any desired angle and fastened with screws.

A simple version of the frame for a scarecrow: wooden coat hangers mounted on a rail

Head

For the head of a scarecrow, any more or less spherical object is suitable:

Beautiful curls on the head of a scarecrow can be created from an old magnetic tape. Such a hairstyle, in addition to everything else, will also sparkle in the sun and rustle in the wind.

Magnetic tape curls have additional deterrent properties: rustle and shine

Hands, feet and clothes

To create a scarecrow of the hand, you can fill the gloves with voluminous material (synthetic winterizer, cotton wool, straw) and fix them on a transverse pole. To create legs on a vertical pole, trousers, shorts, etc. filled with suitable voluminous material are also attached under the clothes and suitable old shoes are fixed on them.

To make your stuffed animal pleasing to the eye, you should not dress it casually and pick up some torn clothes that no one needs. Dress it brightly, with charm, then it will not only scare away birds, but also decorate your site and please the eye.

Dressed up cute scarecrow can decorate the site

Adding accessories to your look will depend on your overall design. The scarecrow can be decorated:

It is believed that birds are especially suspicious of the blue color, so it makes sense to add blue scarecrows to the costume.

A scarecrow dressed in a blue suit will scare away birds more reliably

So that in the future you can quickly protect a new garden resident from the rain, you should immediately prepare a large plastic bag or even an umbrella.

To protect from the rain, you need to prepare an umbrella or immediately dress up the scarecrow in a raincoat

If it suddenly turns out that your scarecrow, instead of scaring away the birds, began to play the role of a convenient airfield, you will have to change the design and move it to another place. Therefore, it is better to have more than one scarecrow, but at least a couple, in order to periodically change their places.

Master class on creating a straw man

To get started, prepare the following materials and tools:

• two handles for a rake or two even sticks (from hazel or aspen);
• a couple of screws and a screwdriver;
• bag of dry straw or hay;
• synthetic twine;
• scissors;
• headdress (preferably a hat);
• black marker;
• thick wire for attaching a hat;
• wide shirt, trousers or breeches.

The sequence of operations is as follows:

1. Let's tackle the frame first. To do this, connect the two prepared rails with screws. It is better to immediately sharpen the lower end of the vertical rail so that later it enters the ground more easily.

   Reiki for the future scarecrow fastened with screws

2. We create the volume of the body with the help of straw. To do this, we twist the straw bundle, twisting it with twine, and fix it on a vertical rail. We also form the volume for future hands on the transverse rail.

   Two straw bundles will add volume to the future scarecrow

3. We form the head of the scarecrow. To do this, we fill a white bag with straw and synthetic filler, fix the resulting head on a vertical rail.

   The head can be made from a white bag or pillowcase.

4. Create a scarecrow face. Eyes, nose, mouth can be made from pieces of skin or fabric of the appropriate color, glue eyebrows, eyelashes.

   A scarecrow's face doesn't have to be intimidating.

5. We put a wide-brimmed hat on the head of the scarecrow and fix it with a wire.

   A straw hat will add a human resemblance to the scarecrow

6. We dress up the scarecrow in a shirt and pants. Preference should be given to blue.

   We also fill the pants with straw and attach them with twine to the shirt.

7. We decorate the scarecrow by adding scary accessories. To prevent the scarecrow from being static, you can attach fluttering and rustling elements to the hat, sleeves, belt:
   • beads from bottle caps;
   • canned food cans fastened in pairs;
   • CD belt.

   A belt made of CDs will add charm and shine to the scarecrow.

Video: creating a scarecrow

Master class on creating a scarecrow crow Karkusha

Often, to scare away jackdaws in the garden, a dead bird is hung on a pole. We will not do this, but we will try to create a scarecrow in the form of Karkusha's crow. Perhaps she will cope with scaring away the feathered robbers.

Scarecrow in the form of a crow will help expel other birds

To craft Karkusha, you will need the following set of materials:

• pole with crossbar;
• black fabric (polyester);
• nitron (synthetic fiber);
• Styrofoam;
• children's shorts / breeches in black;
• black and yellow knee socks;
• black nylon stocking;
• black tow or linen;
• glue, twine, thread;
• black marker;
• willow rods.

Sequence of operations:

1. For the frame, we take two poles 1.5 and 0.5 m long, connect them together.
2. We cut out a square with a side of 50 cm from black fabric, in the middle we make a hole for the head, and cut the edges into strips 5 cm long.
3. We bend the resulting part in half so that both the front and the back of the fabric look like a triangle, and put it on the frame.
4. We sew the torso, and then to add volume we fill it with nitron.
5. We attach bunches of flax or tow to the “wings” hanging along the edges of the transverse crossbar. They will imitate feathers.
6. We also fill the black stocking with nitron to make Karkusha's head.
7. We cut out the eyes and beak from the foam, glue them on the head, which we fix on a vertical rail.
8. At a height of one and a half meters, we fix willow rods horizontally, Karkusha will comfortably “sit down” on them.
9. We put the stockings and panties stuffed with nitron together and sew them to the rods.
10. We cut out paws for Karkusha from foam plastic and glue them to the golfs.
11. On the rods you can hang cans fixed on twine, which will ring in the wind.

Variants of garden scarecrows

Ideas for creating exclusive options for a garden scarecrow are endless. You can choose to create your scarecrow some of these options, but it is better to use them for inspiration and come up with something of your own.

Photo gallery: defenders of orchards and orchards

A straw man can help protect an entire field You can create a scarecrow and without much effort A scarecrow can be given a national color Bright details of clothing will give a scarecrow elegance When creating a garden dweller, you can show imagination A scarecrow head can even be made from a pumpkin Scarecrow can perform some kind of agricultural work Special resemblance to a person will have a scarecrow made from a mannequin

Video: ideas for creating creative "guards" of a ripening crop

Creating a scarecrow for your garden is very simple, so you can show your imagination and make it unique by working on your own "patterns". And let it be as it is said in these lines: “... our scarecrow with you is no longer a stuffed animal, not a doll and not a mummer, but a faithful, kind friend!”.

At the very least, even today the garden scarecrow remains one of the effective, albeit short-term, means of protection against annoying birds that threaten the crop. To be honest, in order for a scarecrow to actually “work”, it is necessary that it also rumble and move in the wind. However, the decorative effect is also worth something. If you don't want to be considered incompetent, create a crop protector yourself. In this article you will find a description of the main details and step-by-step instructions for creating a scarecrow for a summer residence, as well as many ideas and photos of how you can make an unusual garden scarecrow with your own hands.

As a rule, a garden scarecrow performs 2 functions or roles at once:

• scaring away birds;
• garden decoration.

Indeed, if you want to have a well-groomed garden that is not littered with feathered pests, let your garden scarecrow inspire fear exclusively in birds, but not in any way on your neighbors. Therefore, in any case, it should complement, “revive” and decorate the site, or rather be terribly unpleasant, scary for birds and unusual for people. Although a garden scarecrow most often looks rather untidy, but rags are not at all a mandatory attribute in the fight against very cunning garden pests.

In short, a garden scarecrow really should be a real decoration for your dacha, and it doesn’t matter if you have a need to protect the crop. And in fact, why not make it just like that - for beauty and giving more aesthetics to your garden plot.

One way or another, in order for a garden scarecrow to really scare away birds, it should look a certain way:

• its dimensions must correspond to human;
• appearance should be bright and noticeable;
• it should be near the guarded volume.

How to make a garden scarecrow with your own hands

Usually any garden scarecrow is made on the basis of the following components:

• frame (or torso);
• head;
• arms and legs;
• clothing and other accessories.

frame

You can make it both metal and wooden.

A wooden frame, as a rule, is made of two fairly thick boards of different lengths (or take 2 cuttings for shovels). They are fixed crosswise, driving a nail in the middle (and preferably two, so that the scarecrow's hands do not bend or stagger).

Boards (or cuttings) can also be secured with an ordinary rope and a special knot. Such fastening is no less reliable than a hammered nail.

The future torso of a garden monster can be made using the same 1 handle from a shovel, attaching a hanger to it instead of hands.

For more information on how to make a monster in the garden on such a frame, see the next step-by-step master class.

Video: how to make a scarecrow on a wooden-frame hanger

To make a metal frame, you will naturally need more time and welding skills, or you will have to ask a neighbor for a service or find a professional welder.

Video: how to make a summer scarecrow with your own hands on a metal frame

Head

You can make the head of a garden scarecrow from various materials in a variety of ways.

For example, you can sew a head from two pieces of fabric, stuffing it with straw or some other stuffing. Or take a regular fabric bag and stuff it with something to give it the desired shape.

And then embroider eyes, nose, mouth on the face and sew on the ears.

Although you can also draw with paint or wear mask.

Suitable for the most common 5 liter bottle.

It is not a sin to make the head of a garden monster out of garden pot, securely attached to the frame.

Often the scarecrow is made completely hay including his head.

As a head, you can use the old doll head or the head of one who has worked his mannequin.

Or you can not make a scarecrow face, but simply use high hat, but to give it some form, in other words, to fill it, no matter what you have to.

Or just throw it on the frame straw hat.

Arms and legs

If you want the garden scarecrow to be as human-like as possible, then you need to give it clear outlines of the legs and arms.

Creating the arms of a garden scarecrow is very easy: you just need to put on the ends of the frame gloves and stuff them with something, for example, with the same straw.

The legs of the scarecrow are made in the same way: trousers, a bright dress or skirt, visible from afar, are put on the frame, and a clearly visible one is attached below. shoes(for example, rubber boots or galoshes).

Clothing and other accessories

How elegantly you dress your garden scarecrow will depend on its aesthetic appearance and, possibly, fate.

Headdress

The most typical headdress for a scarecrow is hat.

However, the style and material of the hat can also be different.

It might even be hat with ear flaps.

You can put on your granny scarecrow scarf.

It is not necessary to cover the entire head with a hat, this may be enough symbolic and decorative headdress.

Accessories

It will not be trite to put into the hands of a garden scarecrow badminton racket.

And it’s also in your power to create a whole composition: as if the girl is carrying on the yokebucket with water, which I just picked up in the well.

It will not be superfluous to give a stuffed stroller-flower bed into the hands of a stuffed animal.

Step-by-step instructions for creating a garden scarecrow

To make the simplest garden scarecrow, you will need the following materials:

• 3 cuttings from shovels (or strong and thick boards) of different lengths (one for the body is long, for the arms - a little shorter, for the legs - even shorter);
• 2 (or 4) nails and a hammer;
• head (bag stuffed with straw);
• clothing and other accessories.

Step-by-step instructions for creating a garden scarecrow with your own hands:

1. Make a frame.
2. Securely fix it in the ground.
3. Attach the previously made head and wear a hat.
4. Put on a shirt and pants or a dress (skirt) on the body, depending on the gender.
5. To make the appearance of the scarecrow more human-like, attach gloves instead of hands, boots instead of legs.

Video: do-it-yourself garden scarecrow master class

What garden scarecrow to make in the country: photo ideas of beautiful garden scarecrows

Frankly speaking, the most curious sight is presented by various original garden scarecrows, of pleasant appearance.

Farmer

It is most popular to dress a garden scarecrow as a farmer or peasant, in other words, as a villager.

The figure of a scarecrow dressed in a plaid shirt and jeans will not be critical.

2 scarecrows

An interesting idea for decorating a garden would be to form a family of several scarecrows.

Two stuffed adults.

Two scarecrow-children.

Using several scarecrows and other garden items, you can create whole country compositions.

A fun ride in a wheelbarrow.

Husband and wife on the bench.

From pots

If you like the idea of ​​creating a head for a stuffed garden pot, then you can do everything scarecrow entirely out of pots.

Another version of the battle scarecrow (knight) from pots.

From plastic bottles

A lifesaver for developing a beautiful and creative image of a scarecrow can be used plastic bottles in catchy colors.

Another idea for creating a dark-skinned native scarecrow from plastic bottles.

Note! Still, scarecrows from plastic bottles turn out to be really pretty ugly, so it’s better to make them out of them.

Fisherman

Such a scarecrow stimulates interest not only in amateur gardening, but also in fishing. It seems to want to say: “Everything will be cool with us!”

Soldier

A scarecrow dressed in a military uniform and a gas mask will look very intimidating.

Bandit or cowboy

It will not be shameful to dress the scarecrow in a cowboy or, perhaps, a bandit outfit.

Athlete

Say what you like, but the monster-athlete is cool!

Bird

It will be quite funny and original if you make a scarecrow with a bird's head. As they say: a wedge is knocked out with a wedge.

And here is a simpler, but also boring option in all respects.

Pumpkin

This pumpkin man is, without a doubt, worthy of the flattering attention of gardening fans.

And it's hard to tear off an enthusiastic look from this foppish figure of a pumpkin farmer. He's still handsome!

Caring for a dacha, a garden or a vegetable garden is an occupation that requires considerable effort and trouble. Having spent a lot of time to achieve the desired result, no gardener wants to say goodbye to a precious crop due to uncontrolled bird raids. To protect the fruits of their labor from hungry feathered pests, the owners often install colorful human-sized dolls on their plots - scarecrows (or stuffed animals), designed once and for all to discourage birds from approaching incredibly tasty beds. Of course, such “watchmen” will not completely protect the garden, and especially brave winged thieves will be able to feed freely in the garden further, however, stuffed animals nevertheless bring certain benefits, scaring away most of the voracious birds.

To make the scarecrow scary for the birds and useful for the owners, it is best to make it:

• Noisy. Bells, empty cans, bottles, metal parts and other trinkets - all this, ringing in every way in windy weather, scares the birds, preventing them from even getting close to the garden.
• Big. A bulky and impressive figure sometimes looks intimidating even for people, not to mention birds.
• Look like a human. Birds, no matter how impudent and bold they sometimes seem, have retained the makings of the instinct of self-preservation and will not meddle in the garden, where the owner is walking around. A humanoid stuffed bird may well be mistaken for the owner.
• Movable. Items of clothing fluttering in the wind will create the impression of a moving figure, even more similar to the owner or mistress of the garden.
• Cute for the owners themselves. Indeed, in addition to protection, the scarecrow also serves as a decoration, and sometimes such “crafts” fit very organically into the country landscape.

So, in the name of preserving the harvest, a responsible summer resident decided to make a terrible scarecrow from improvised materials, but does not know how to do it? It's not that difficult, actually.

There are many options for making stuffed animals, however, most of them consist of the same simple parts, such as: frame, head, torso, limbs and clothes.

frame

Often the frame is made of two thick and even sticks of different lengths, fixing them with a long nail crosswise. Instead of sticks, you can also use cuttings from a shovel- they are perfect both in shape and length, and in strength.

You can also tie the details of the frame with an ordinary rope- such a mount, despite its apparent simplicity, is no less reliable and durable.

You can also use boards.: such a frame will be much easier to manufacture, but much more difficult to install - this point is also important to consider.

And finally you can make a metal frame, by welding several parts of a suitable size and shape. This method is perhaps the most reliable and durable, but at the same time the most difficult to manufacture. This method was liked by the authors of the Garden and Garden channel.

Head

For the manufacture of the head, you can also use completely different materials.