Fall Scarecrow Buckets

These Fall Scarecrow Buckets are so much fun to make and they can be customized for any event or even for any person for gift-giving purposes.

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Watch me make these Fall Scarecrow Buckets on our local news station morning show here. 

These fun autumn inspired buckets can be used for gifting treats and small gifts, take only a few supplies and a little imagination. Let’s make some Fall Scarecrow Buckets!

Fall Scarecrow Buckets

Supplies:

• DIY Paint Cans
• Canvas Corp Burlap Flowers (one for each can)
• Canvas Corp Burlap Flower
• Rafia, Twine, or Sisal
• Heavyweight kraft paper or cereal box cut into 1 1/2 inch strips
• Stapler
• Scissor
• Hot glue and hot glue gun
• Alphabet Stickers
• Orange, Black, and/or Green Felt
• Black & Orange Sharpie Marker
• Assorted Ribbon
• Googly Eyes

Directions:

• Make hair: wrap sisal (or twine) around a six inch piece of heavy card stock. Cut one end and lay out sisal. Tie in the middle with a small piece of sisal or twine. Hot glue this bundle to the bottom of the canvas flower.
• Remove lid from DIY paint can. Attach the hair & canvas flower piece to the top of the paint can lid with hot glue. Let sit to adhere (may place a heavy object on top to secure)
• Make hat: cut a 1 1/2 strip of cardboard. Roll into a tube and secure with two staples. Cut off a diagonal portion of the bottom. Apply a small line of hot glue and attach some twine. Wrap twine all the way up the rolled tube and secure with more hot glue at the top.
• Optional: cut a small piece of cardboard to cover the tube/hat.
• Hot glue the hat to the top of the canvas flower.
• Place letter stickers on DIY paint can. Spell out a name or a phrase. 
• Using the Sharpie marker, draw a squiggly mouth above the letter stickers. Add scarecrow slashes through mouth.
• Cut a triangle nose from the orange felt. Use black Sharpie marker to make slashes. Hot glue to the DIY paint can above the mouth.
• Cut 2 black felt tear drops for eyes. Adhere to the paint can with hot glue.
• Attach googly eyes to the felt tear drops.
• Alternatively, you can draw all the features with the black and orange Sharpie markers.
• Tie ribbon into bows onto the handles of the DIY paint can.
• Fill buckets with candy, treats, small gifts, or my Fall Bucket List Cards
• Make additional characters: for the witch: use a black canvas flower, make a hat out of black felt and attach to the hat with hot glue. Add some black twine hair using the same method as above. 
• What other character buckets would you make?

I LOVE fall bucket lists and I thought it would be fun to include a Fall Bucket List card in these Fall Scarecrow Buckets. You can download the PDF and write out your own Fall Bucket List to-dos!

Need some more fall themed project inspiration? How about my Pumpkin Hoop Tutorial or my Thanksgiving Treat Cups? Both are super fun and totally customizable.