JFK and the Scarecrow

Following up on my last post, I've got some photos of the scarecrow. He was pretty creepy. Because the costume was minimalistic, it has a lifeless sense that's just raw and eery. Jake stood by that post at the front porch for a long time. Just stood there, not moving. When a trick-or-treater came up, he just moved his head ever so slightly. Creepy.

He looks like he's hanging there, doesn't he?

And the head was really the only part we made. The shirt had some raffia on the cuffs to look stuffed with straw, but that was it. The head has a cotton t-shirt lining so it's not scratchy. He loves wearing it around.

So, life in 4th grade moves on too. Immigration Day has passed and today a biogobody project was due. Yes, biogro-body. A biography project in which you create a likeness of the person and put factual information on the body itself. Grace studied JFK.
We layed Grace out on the dining table and traced her body on a white sheet. We cut two bodies and sewed them together and stuffed it. Hands and head were made seperately and attached. Then he was dressed all up handsomelike.

All the facts that Grace researched were written and typed into the little book that he's holding, "Information about John F. Kennedy" and even the book binding was stitched on the sewing machine. Grace did almost all of the sewing herself, including the mouth, button eyes and attaching all that thick brown hair.

Biogrobody. There you have it.