Thread: scarecrow in corn field theme

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An easy way to get a cornfield look and get your cornstalks to stand up is to use haybales to secure them. We use them in our haunt to make a corn maze in the driveway.

Lay the bale on its side with the twine running parallel to the ground and just slip the corn between the bailing twine. If you put them in both the front and back of the bale you get a nice 3-D/corn row effect. This is an older picture from a few years ago but I hope you can see the effect. If you stack two bales on top of each other it makes a 3' wall. It will also leave some room behind to hide an actor or other props.



I also highly recommend a strobe light shining through the corn. It is a very disorienting effect.

I was gonna do something like this last year, but I couldn't.
Heres what I was gonna do. You have as little light as possible maybe pumpkins lighting the way. You have several scarecrows that look like they are people but they arnt. You have a main scarecrow posted up on a stand (this should be the creepiest)
And also save some corn stalks and Glue them to a shirt, (kinda like camo) then you have the person wearing the shirt/costume hiding in the cornstalks.

great idea you should have done it. I might use your cornstalk camo this year . thanks for sharing.

well I got 3 scarecrows , the american gothic farmer and wife zombies and a creepy crawler girl I might use for this years halloween. I also pulled out my crows and rats and I`m working on my dead guy thats going to be eaten by rats and crows. This is just the beginning.

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For a small yard try making a tight spiral-type maze, entering from somewhere on the drive way (that way you can incorporate some of that real-estate for props/thematic staging) and exiting for candy at the door and (one last good scare) as the TOT's leave on the sidewalk back to the road.

A tight double "s" shaped corn maze would be 'claustrophobic' without being too hazardous to navigate. Smoke machine and some strategic placement of blood on the corn stalk and crows pecking at "unidentifiable" matter would be a nice touch, too. Try building a simple wind kinetic mobile with crow silhouettes circling over the corn field from the second story window...might be a nice touch

Hide a low-watt up light in the middle of the maze so that it has a creepy glow emanating towards the street- it'll also keep it lit enough to walk through.

Love this idea! We were going to do this last year and show "Children of the Corn" as our outdoor movie out in the woods. We actually planted corn...but it didn't grow. My husbands friend has a corn field so we planned on getting stalks from him. Then one day while at work, the man's son-n-law decided to do him a favor and plow the field. So no more stalks for us! After that, we just moved on to another theme. BUT I love the idea of it! I think it would be great!

talkn to a farmer early in the year and ask if you can make a deal to get dried stalks of corn. You got to use real stalks to make it look right.

I was checking around on the internet and found that one can use cat tails just the same as corn stalks. But you would have to find a cat tail farm to get enough , bummer. But I thought I`d let everyone know.