If I Only Had a Brain

Build Your Own ScarecrowProject and Fundraiser

Getting StartedBefore Your Event

Save plastic grocery bags

Collect jeans and shirts(children’s and small sizes use less stuffing)

Sew muslin bag for heads

A work night a few days before the event to get the supplies ready

Sorting through the jeans and shirts leftover from the club’s Yard Sale

Cutting out bandannas or neckerchiefs

Laying out and cutting yarn for the hair

Gluing the hair on the heads

Or sew yarn into the seam while making the heads

Cutting patches out of fabric to decorate the scarecrows

The day of your event

• Have markers to draw faces and cardboard so the ink doesn’t bleed through

• A chair to display a sample scarecrow

• Puff up the plastic bags, ready for stuffing

Scarecrow Booth open for business

Choose a muslin head

Draw a face on the muslin head

Choose a shirt and jeans, then tie off the shirt arms and pant legs with twine

Stuff with dry, clean plastic grocery bags

Glue on fabric patches

Each scarecrow builder receives a certificate that includes the name of the builder, the scarecrow’s name, the date and name of the event and the name of the Pilot Club.

Spooky

Jane DoePatty

Pilot

Each child or adult who makes a scarecrow receives information about the brain and how to put on a helmet correctly.

Our club registers an event during Brain Awareness Week in March which allows us to order free materials from the Dana Brain Alliance.

Scarecrow Workshop at Virginia District Convention

Projects?

Or Fundraising?

Glinda explained that both scarecrows were right, it’s both a fundraiser and a project!