Let's Make a Scarecrow
A mini book for you to print. Cut on the lines and staple the pages together to form a book. Have your students color. Have them read their book to a friend and an adult. (k-2)

Scarecrow Scare!
Print and Laminate. Cut out each scarecrow box and place in a pocket chart. Cut out each crow and place in a jar next to your chart. The student must place the number of scraecrows scared next to the scarecrow. (k-1)

Following Directions
You can have your students complete this sheet by reading it on their own (1-3) or you may read it to your students and have them follow your verbal instructions.

Color and Write
Student colors the scarecrow picture and then writes a sentence or a paragraph about the picture. (k-3)

A great way to start a unit is to work on a KWL chart with your students. Make a scarecrow KWL chart by drawing a circle for the head. Add a large hat to the head. Then add a large scraf around the head. As you start your scarecrow unit, complete the What We Know (The hat) and the What We Want To Know (the scarf) portions about Scarecrows. Write the information given by the children onto your pattern.. After reading the scarecrow stories & doing activities, have children dictate information for the What We Learned (head) portion of the KWL.

Place the following poem in a Pocket Chart

Scarecrow, scarecrow,
They say you could scare a crow off a tree.
You scared (insert name)
But you didn't scare me!

Pick a student to read the poem.
They can insert a name of a classmate in the blank while they read!

Scarecrow Sam Likes the Letter Ss.  Play an auditory discrimination game.  Put pictures on the back of pumpkin shapes.  If the picture starts with the /s/ sound, put it in Scarecrow Sam's overall pocket.

Class Book Idea.

Create a sheet with the sentence. I saw a scarecrow. The scarecrow didn't scare (student's name). The scarecrow scared _______________. The student finishes the sentence (examples a mouse, the teacher, a ghost) and then illustrates the picture to match the sentence. Bind all pages together to form a book. Place a cover page on the book with the title... This Scarecrow Can't Scare Me!

You can find so many different sized scarecrows at craft stores. Buy a small, medium, and large scarecrow. Have your students use various things (paperclips, ruler, pencils, crayons...) to measure the scarecrows. Create a sheet that they can record their measurement info. on.

ABC TEACH
Over 15 goodies to print for your scarecrow theme

Scarecrow Pattern

Scarecrow Book
Free to print and use

Dot to Dot

Paper Scarecrow Template

Scarecrow Head
and Body of a Scarecrow

Scarecrow Bookmarks

Scarecrows

We're the farmer's scarecrows

    We scare away the birds,

We keep the farmer's corn safe

Without any words.

But when Halloween comes

We jump out of the ground

And we scare the boys and girls

When they come walking 'round.

The Scarecrow
Scarecrow standing in the field On a bright and sunny day, Don't forget to do your job. Scare the hungry crows away!

Title: I'm a Little Scarecrow
(I'm a Little Teapot)
I'm a little scarecrow,
Raggedy and worn.
I wear a hat,
And a shirt that's torn.
When the crows come,
I wave and shout,
"Away from my garden ----
Get on out!"

SACRECROW CHANT
Scarecrow, scarecrow,
How scary can you be?
You scared away the crows  (children have fun giving ideas)
But you can't scare me!
No, you can't scare me!

Five Stuffed Scarecrows
Five Stuffed Scarecrows in the corn rows,
The first one said, "Go away, crows!"
The second one said, "I am very small,"
The third one said, "I am standing tall."
The fourth one said, "On my head I wear a hat."
The fifth one said, By me feet runs a cat."
Five stuffed scarecrows in the corn rows,
Moving left and right as the autumn wind blows

Scarecrow
(to the tune  of itsy bitsy spider)
The floppy, floppy scarecrow
Stands  in the field all day
His job  is  to scare  the birds away.
Up on a pole as high as he can be
And away fly those black crows,
1-2-3-.

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

BEFORE READING

Make pumpkin cutouts and place the following words onto the cutouts;

Talk about the words. Write them in sentences.

DURING READING

During the start of the story the little old lady runs into a pair of shoes. What is unusual about these shoes? Would you be scared if a pair of shoes was following you?

After the pumpkin says, "Boo, Boo!" in the story ask the students to tell you what they tink will happen on the next page?

On the thirs to last page the little old lady whispers something to all the objects. What do you think her idea was? What would be your idea?

On the next page, the lady looks out the window. Before turning the page ask the students to make predictions on what she might see.

Activities

When the pumpkin's head shouted, "Boo, Boo!" the little old lady ran off. Have children brainstorm other situations that are made more frightening with sounds. Then play the following Halloween soundtrack and have children guess harmless ways the sounds could of been made

Sequence Parts of the Story
Cut apart the story strips and put them in order to tell the story.Add capital letters and punctuation marks where they belong.
1. she met a shirt two gloves and a hat
2. went for a walk in the forest.
3. she ran home and sat in her chair
4. the next morning she found a scarecrow
5. she met two big shoes and a pair of pants
6. one afternoon a little old lady
7. on her way home
8. she met a huge scary pumpkinhead

WRITING ACTIVITY
Make a sheet with the following sentences. Have you students fill in the blanks and draw an iluustration to match!

What could you do with a scarecrow?
You could________________________________
And you could____________________________
It would be fun to _________________________
And _____________________________________
This is what you could do with a scarecrow.

ABC TEACH
Over 15 goodies to print for your scarecrow theme

Mrs. Green's Scarecrow Theme
Many ideas found here.

Mrs. Balling
Great ideas found here!

The Virtual Vine
Filled with lots of ideas

I am a Scarecrow
Classbook

KinderKorner
Scarecrow Scarecrow

Kindergarten Tree House-
Lots of ideas here

The Learning Leap

Necktie Scarecrow Craft - DLTK

Scarecrow Wall Decoration - Kid's Domain

Paper Scarecrow - Templates for the scarecrow and also for the clothes.

Wee Scarecrow Craft