Demon scarecrow...

Before Halloween was even over in 2009 I had planned out what I wanted to do in 2010. I imagined making a dozen or so demon scarecrows and mounting them all along my fence by the sidewalk and driveway. They would be about nine feet in the air looking down slightly to the sidewalk and have glowing eyes and outreached hands like they were about ready to grab the kids as they walked by. A friend of mine wanted to start decorating his house for Halloween and he asked me to make him a prop earlier in the year. I told him about my idea that I had for demon scarecrows along my fence and he told me he would love to have one. I thought this would be a good way to learn the process of paper mache and what it would take to make one from start to finish. After six weeks of conduit bending, paper mache, painting and wiring lights I had finished one demon scarecrow and realized there was no way I would be able to make as many as I originally wanted to. Even though I figured I could make them a lot faster now that I knew how to do it, I gave up on the idea and put it on the back burner for another year.







This is how he mounted it in his front yard...