Year of Living Graciously - June

Go through your makeup and toss the old stuff or save the crazy colors of eye shadow and lipstick for the next costume party.

Scarecrow Costume - Easy

I has the girls dress like scarecrows for a fall Bunko party at my house. My costume cost me nothing because I gathered everything I needed from around the house. So if you happen to need a costume for Halloween, be a scarecrow and have fun! Find out how below:

Jane Marie as a Scarecrow



You'll need:

Straw hat

Leaves cut from construction paper in fall colors

Silk flower - 3 to 4 inch in diameter

Small ornamental bird (optional)

Old plaid shirt

Jeans or overalls

Multi-color raffia for tie

Natural color raffia for hat/hair (optional)

Rope for belt

Garden gloves (optional)

Old colorful shirt for vest (optional)

Neck kerchief (optional)

Straight pins and/or glue stick

Dark brown eyeliner

Gold eye shadow

Blush

Lipstick

Pigtails or braids tied with wired ribbon (optional)

Hat:

Look at a variety of leaves and cut out similar shapes for hat. Slip leaves in hat band or tie a piece of raffia around the hat to make a hat band. Pin or use glue stick to keep leaves in place but don't harm hat. Secure large flower on front with pin. 

Hair:

Optional:  Pin or stitch long strands of raffia inside hat to hand down and  appear as hair or put hair up in pigtails or braid and tie with bright wired ribbon. Bend ribbon so it stands out from face.

Clothing:

Roll up the sleeves of an old plaid shirt. Cut the sleeves of another old colorful patterned shirt and use as a vest if you want.  Tie a length of rope around waist.  Pin raffia bow at neck or tie kerchief around neck. Wear jeans or overalls.

Make-up:

Apply gold sparkly eye shadow on lids and up to eyebrow. With dark brown pencil eyeliner, draw three long lashes above each eye and three long lashes below each eye. Outline lips with same pencil extending a line two inches straight out from each corner of the lips.  Add three vertical lines on each extended cheek line to look like stitching. Apply medium or dark lipstick inside brown lip line, reapplying lip line if necessary. Apply heavy blush to the apples of the cheeks. Add blush or lipstick to tip of nose, if desired.