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Little Miss Muffet Scarecrow

With Spider Cut-Out

The closest a Mother Goose nursery rhyme comes to being scary -- especially if you're an arachnophobe -- is "Little Miss Muffet"....
Picture: Little Miss Muffet. View my scarecrow pictures for ideas for making scarecrows.

Scarecrow photo: Little Miss Muffet's mouth really "makes" this scarecrow.

David Beaulieu

That makes a Little Miss Muffet scarecrow appropriate for Halloween. Of course, what's Little Miss Muffet without her spider? Indeed, the spider is a rock star for this holiday with or without Little Miss Muffet, as evidenced by Halloween spider inflatables, for example.

Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffet away.

The spider in the picture above is represented by a simple cut-out. But the genius of the display is in the scarecrow. I love the way the artist conveyed Little Miss Muffet's sense of horror through the shape of the scarecrow's mouth.

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