Halloween is scarecrow making time and I had the opportunity to create one with some friends and enter into Ladew Gardens ‘Garden Glow’. Our Monkton Garden Club had unlimited space to work with, but we had to make sure it looked good both in the daytime and nighttime.
Lighting was accomplished with many strings of tiny white fairy lights on a timer that you can set to go on for 6 hours and off for 18-perfect timing for the evening!
My first stop was to gather gardening clothing. Salvation Army was the mother lode source for a plaid shirt, denim coveralls, and green gardening boots. While there, I noticed the all body romper suits for infants and snatched one of those up for the baby scarecrow. Gardening gloves for the mommy scarecrow completed her getup and fake pumpkins for the baby and mommy heads finished it off. The Styrofoam fake pumpkins are light weight and easy to impale on a stake for the head.
For stuffing, we used light weight plastic grocery bags and bubble wrap instead of straw to keep it from soaking up any rain.
The scarecrow was put together at my house and then we transported it to Ladew to set up the whole vignette. A trellis, pumpkins, crates, snake gourd, flower arrangement, butterfly lights, shovel, and a watering can completed the garden lady scene. My friend Darlene, carved 2 awesome jack-o-lanterns that were set up at the base of the hay bale.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing the details. We didn’t make it to the Glow this year and it was nice to see a little of what we missed. P
Go on the Facebook page and you can see the whole thing
So colorful and so creative!
So creative! Love Halloween!
Loved seeing the various steps to make this funny and remarkable display.
It was a process!!
FANTASTIC, that snake gourd looked real, it would scare me. I do hope you win.
It wasn’t a competition but I thought it was the best thing there!
Brilliant! I loved Darlenes painted lady!
Brilliant. I loved Darlenes painted lady.