My tiny front porch has a corner, to the left of the front door, where I can imagine a spooky character hanging out for Halloween – you know, to scare the bejesus out of the trick-or-treaters! But I didn’t want to be too mean so I decided to go with a benign character that I can make out of things I already have. After all, my goal is not to buy cheap disposable decorations for Halloween.
So I raided our closets. Luckily, my husband had a shirt and a pair of jeans that he wanted to donate. So I thought a drunken farmer would be fun and easy to make with them. I still had burlap coffee sacs after making the burlap fabric box and I thought of using it as the torso. If you don’t have any of these items, you can get them easily from your local Goodwill store and a local coffee roaster.
You’ll need:
- Coffee burlap sac
- Man’s Jeans or overalls
- Plaid shirt
- Straw Hat
- Bandana
- Stuffing material for the upper body
- Magazine for stuffing the legs
- Empty beer bottles or glass soda bottles
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