Paper Plate Scarecrow Craft

Welcome to your home or classroom with this easy to make paper plate scarecrow craft. With a cool haircut, this craft is perfect for kids to practice basic scissor skills while having lots of fun.

This is a really great classroom craft for kids to make (perfect for kindergarten and preschool) because when your students make their own, they will look amazing displayed on the wall your. There will be many funny and unique scarecrows.

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Scarecrows are a great theme if you’re planning on doing some fall crafts with your kids. It just screams everything is falling! If you make it look a little scary it also works great as a Halloween craft.

Just look at this cute guy or girl!

How to make scarecrow crafts using paper plates

What you need:

• paper plate
• paint
• Construction paper comes in many different colors
• glue
• drag
• paintbrush
• tick
• white gel/chalk marker (optional)

Step-by-step instructions

You will need a paper plate to make a scarecrow. If you have a patterned paper plate, let your child work on the unpatterned side.

Paint the paper plate (beige goes well with the scarecrow). Let the paint dry.

Paint a pair of eyes or cut circles into black construction paper and glue them onto paper plates.

Tip: if you are making this with your class, you can pre-punch the circles with a bunch of paper.

This step is optional but it makes the work look more vivid – draw white circles inside the eyes with a marker or white paint.

Create extra rosy cheeks by gluing on a pair of pink paper circles or painting them with paint (round sponge brushes come in super handy).

Next, let’s make the mouth. The easiest way to draw a mouth is to use a thick black marker. Draw a curved line from one cheek to the other. Draw lines along the mouth line.

Cut out a triangular nose (yellow, orange, and pink are great options) and glue it onto the paper plate.

Let your child cut out a bunch of paper hair rectangles (yellow, brown, orange, red – it all works) and glue them onto a paper plate.

Apply a bunch of glue to both sides of the scarecrow’s head.

Make a hat.

Draw the outline on brown paper and cut it out.

Glue the hat onto the paper, overlapping some of the straw hair.

Have your child cut a strip of colorful paper and glue it to the hat.

Younger kids can leave it as is, while older kids can add some decoration to the scarecrow’s hat.

Markers are great for adding fine details.

This hat also needs a fancy flower.

Cut it out and glue it onto the hat.

This is also a great craft to use up any scraps – like gems.

Cut paper strips in different colors, then glue them under the scarecrow’s chin (on the back of the craft).

Add as much as you like.

All done!

Isn’t this scarecrow profession adorable?

Now imagine a classroom full of these! Very cute.

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