Return of the Scarecrow Corpse
September 1st, 2008 by John Wolfe
Today, the scarecrow saw the light of day for the first time since last Halloween. I drug it out of storage to get it fog machine ready. Normally the summertime weather, here in New Mexico, is pretty rough on my mache props. The extreme heat has a tendency to cause the texture to constrict, showing interior layers that never received a coat of paint. This one was actually in great shape, aside from the right arm slipping a little on the post.
My plans for the scarecrow’s role in the haunt this year is similar to last Halloween, with the exception of fog coming out of its mouth. After all the hours that went into constructing it, not to mention the thousands of individually rolled pieces of paper towel; cutting a hole into it was extremely difficult…not physically but emotionally! 
I almost couldn’t bring myself to do it. But the beauty of mache is it’s easily fixable. The openings are there to allow a pipe to be fed into the prop. The other end of the pipe will be anchored to the outlet nozzle of the fog machine. The hole is slightly off center because the prop has a thick wad of newspaper holding up the head. I grabbed some footage of the fog in action and will have it included in my next Halloween Haunter’s Reality post.
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