Vegetable Garden Scarecrows Ideas and Examples

Friendly Scarecrow Face Made from Pillowcase

Use our vegetable garden scarecrows ideas to build your idea of a perfect scarecrow!

Are you trying to keep birds out of your blueberries, or corn patch?

Be aware that your scarecrow may seem like a member of the family, so keep it really fun and friendly.

Vegetable garden scarecrows are one of the most memorable projects you can do with children in the garden.

Unlike most garden tasks, building a scarecrow has a clear, exciting finished product — a real character with a face and a costume that stands watch over the garden all season long.

Children who help build a vegetable garden scarecrow feel genuine pride every time they look at it. It becomes their creation, their contribution to the family garden, and a landmark they will remember long after the season is over.

The building process itself is excellent for children of all ages. Younger children love choosing the scarecrow's outfit — rummaging through an old shirt or jacket, deciding on a hat, and stuffing the arms until they look just right.

Older children can help with the frame, practice tying knots, and take the lead on designing the face.

Give each child a job that matches their age and ability, and the whole project comes together in an afternoon.

Children's Scarecrow Coloring Pages and Crafts

Visit our free vegetable gardening worksheets, activity books, coloring books, paper dolls, and many other gardening fun activities for children from preschool to older children! When planning a child vegetable garden, be sure to include a funny scarecrow!

Who ever heard of scarecrow paper dolls? Well, now you have!

Scarecrow coloring page for kids.

Fun Scarecrow Ideas for Your Garden

Vegetable Garden Scarecrows Video

Build Your Own Scarecrow Plans

Cute Easy-To-Make Scarecrow Idea

Here are some easy steps to build your own garden scarecrow at home:

Get two poles or stakes that you can fasten into a "t" shape. This will give you the body, and arms for your scarecrow.
Drive a wooden stake, or metal fence post into the ground where you want to locate your scarecrow.
Use wire or heavy-duty plastic fasteners to fasten your "t" stakes to the stake in the ground.
Leave enough room on the top of your stake to fasten the head of your scarecrow. The head can be made from an old pillowcase, or other material. Just putting an upside down flowerpot or lampshade makes a very cute head!
Find an old shirt, jacket, or dress and place it on the "t". Stuff the costume with recycled plastic bags, or any other material that won't get water-logged and decompose.

Cute Scarecrow Dressed in Red

Use belts or ties as needed to shape your scarecrow.
Add stuffed gloves to the end of the sleeves if desired.
Tie shoes or boots to the ends of the pant-legs if your scarecrow has pants.
Add a hat, and straw (plastic straw lasts longer) or yarn for hair.
Draw or sew a cute face on your scarecrow.
Accessorize as desired!

This Scarecrow is Ready to Garden!

Children's Paper Plate
Scarecrow Instructions

A fun project for preschool and early elementary-age children is to make a paper-plate scarecrow.

Here are some ideas for decorating a paper plate scarecrow:

Use a plain white paper or plastic plate.
Cut out or draw eyes, nose and mouth.
Use yellow, red, brown, or black yarn, or construction paper for hair.
Glue on large buttons for eyes (not for very small children who might put them in their mouth)
Make a hat out of felt or construction paper.

Sophisticated Scarecrow Couple Guarding the Garden!

Decorating for Fall with Scarecrows

Scarecrows also make fun porch or lawn decorations for fall and Halloween.

Your scarecrow can sit on your front porch and warn you when you have visitors coming!

Small trick-or-treaters enjoy seeing scarecrows, as long as they aren't too scary-looking.

So if you don't need vegetable garden scarecrows, don't let this keep you from having the fun of building and decorating your own scarecrow this fall season!

Sunflower Scarecrow Idea

Another fun idea for fall is to plant a row of sunflowers near a fence in your front yard.

At the end of summer, you can decorate the sunflowers with hats, old eye-glasses, sunglasses, scarf, and any other ideas you can come up with.

Your sunflower scarecrows will put a smile on everyone's face!

Vegetable garden scarecrows also make wonderful fall decorations beyond the garden itself.

A cheerful scarecrow propped on the front porch or seated on a bale of straw beside the front door welcomes visitors and gives children something to show off to friends and neighbors.

Add a few pumpkins, dried cornstalks, and sunflowers at the base and you have a fall display the whole family created together.