Scarecrow Help

[artvandalay38]

First of all, this website is awesome. Everyone here is really into Halloween and I've gotten some great ideas.

Down to it: I'm building my first scarecrows this year.

I plan on coating burlap in elmer's glue / water mixture and covering a plastic pumpkin for the head. I want this thing to stand up to the weather for a month so I was thinking about coating the whole thing with polyureathane.

Will this work? I've seen similar threads but nothing that specifically addresses this. Also, should I color (sharpie) the face in prior to the poly?

Or --- is there a better way to apply the face? If it turns out good I'd like to reuse it next year.

Any comments or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!

[Evil Queen]

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd258/scubawidow/halloween/EvilQueen-1-1.jpg

[Vlad]

Welcome to the forum Art, I've moved this thread here as it was more of a prop question than a hello. Feel free to post another "hello I'm here" in the welcome section if you'd like.

[heresjohnny]

Spar eurathane is used a lot to weather-proof things. Since you are using burlape over a plastic pumpkin head, have you considered saturating the burlape with the poly, squeezing out the excess and then shapping it? I don't know it will work for sure, but seems like it would.

We also had a scarecrow contest back in 06, you might check that out for ideas.

[morbid mike]

yes that will work I used that method on my DIO prop just straight eurathane and burlap I was very pleased worked like monster mudd

[artvandalay38]

Cool. I'll give the straight poly a test run this weekend. Thanks.

[tot13]

Add a little bleach to your glue mixture to deter mildew.