Make a Scarecrow Doll From Cornhusks

By Nancy Bubel
Published on May 17, 2012
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In fact, although scarecrow people are easily made by children, the fun of clothing them in scraps makes this an addictive adult craft too.

Just as I was about to wrap up my other article on cornhusk dolls, we stumbled on another way to create
little figures from the same raw materials. These variations on the
theme — “scarecrow people”, we call them — are closer to the original folk
version that was made as children’s playthings. They’re cruder than the
type I’ve described in the accompanying article, but sturdy and full of
personality . . . and, since they’re dressed in odds and ends of cloth,

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