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Meet Aditi: Aditi is in the 6th grade and loves creating things from robots to crafts, she does them all. An avid reader she loves reading books.

Aditi had a lot of fall decorations in her house and decided to re-use some of the things for other purposes. The fall scarecrow was one of the things she decided to reuse to make it into a Diwali Couple.

Things you need:

• Scissors
• Glue
• Stapler
• Old chunari or long cloth
• 2 Scarecrows

Instructions:

• Take the scarecrows and take off the hat, bows and bow tie.
• On the boy scarecrow reposition the straw hair to cover the bald patch and then glue it together.

• Cut the chunari or long cloth into 2 pieces, then further cut one of the pieces into half again.
• Use the longest cloth and tie 2 ends of it to the waist of the girl scarecrow and then pleat it as you would a saree.

• With one of the other halves pleat it and using a saftey pin, pin one end to the back of the  girl scarecrow. the other end should be taken over the opposite shoulder and the again pinned at the back.

• Now with the remaining half cut it into these pieces which makes the body of the kurta and the seelves of the boy scarecrow.

• Glue the edge of the sleeves so that it looks neat. Now glue the sleeves to the scarecrow and after that put the kurta on and glue the sides. You can use saftey pins instead of glue if you like.
• Aditi used the old waist coat from the original boy scarecrow again to give more color.

• Use the left over golden boarder or gota to make bangles and ribbon for the girl scarecrow.

• Once everything is dry you can decorate it at your desired spot. You can add a bindi – red dot on the forehead of the girl scarecrow.