Creepy Scarecrow Gloves

I have always enjoyed Halloween and this year will be no different. I've also always had fun creating costumes for my children and/or customizing costumes. This year my son suggested he could be a scarecrow and stated that all he needed was a mask and scarecrow hands. I thought a mask would be pretty easy to find but I hade never seen very interesting scarecrow hands. In this Instructable I'll show you how I made some really creepy hands out of basic gloves from the hardware store. I might try a mask next but that will be another instructable. I hope you enjoy this instructable and find some value in it. I have been really pleased with the result and expect to continue to develop this costume in the next month. :)

• Gloves - I used size large which were tight fitting. Any type of gloves will do.
• Silicone caulk or any quick setting glue. Hot glue would also work well
• Heavy gauge wire - anything that will hold it's form when bent
• tape - masking tape and duct tape
• Great stuff foam or other insulating spray foam
• Serrated edge knife or blade - I used a hack saw blade
• different colors of burlap material - Joann's fabrics has a lot of different options
• fake grass or hey
• plyers and wire cutters
• Paint - natural colors to add shading to the hands

First cut ten lengths of wire which are double the length of how long you want your fingers to be. I varied the lengths because I wanted some short and some long fingers. I was hoping to make the fingers as strange as possible.

Next bend the wires into tight U-shapes which are no wider than the width of your fingers. Line up these wires with your gloves and bend then in the shapes you find most interesting. Once you are comfortable with your wire shapes, use duct tape to tape the wires to the fingers of the gloves. I found that it was much easier to tape the wires to the gloves when I had one hand inside the glove to give it shape.

After attaching the wires to the glove, you'll want to wrap masking tape around the wire and cover the full length.

First cover the work area because great stuff foam will make a mess and is very difficult to remove from most surfaces. next place the gloves on your workspace (the floor for me) and slowly cover one side of each finger with foam.

Let it grow/expand and dry overnight. After this first application has dried, turn the gloves over and foam the other side. Once again you'll have to wait a day before moving on to the next step.

Once the foam is dried you'll want to take the hack saw blade and start forming the fingers into whatever shape suits your plan or costume.

There is no way to be wrong at this step. If you cut too much off you can always add more foam and let it dry and then saw or cut again. I really wanted these about the diameter of regular fingers. Just extra long and of odd lengths. you can see the results in the pictures.

So - I got a little excited at this point and missed taking any pictures. This was due to the fact that I was using hot glue on the project while wearing the gloves to keep the appropriate form.

However, this was a rather simple step. I basically cut long strips of burlap (of different colors) to be ready to glue to the fingers and gloves. I first applied hot glue to each finger one at a time and then wrapped the burlap around the finger with glue on it. I repeated this process until all the fingers were covered. Then I applied hot glue to the palms and back of the hand and added more burlap. I also found some straw material which I also added by gluing straw underneath the burlap layers.

Always be careful with the hot glue as it can easily burn the skin. See the final result in the pictures.

These turned out pretty good and definitely created a lot of conversation on Halloween. My son would stand very still and scare the trick-r-treaters by moving very slowly. Anyway, these gloves could easily be altered to fit any costume by using different material to cover the gloves. Hope you enjoyed this instructable. And I hope you have a very Happy Halloween!!