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Thanksgiving Decorations For Your Lawn or Yard

Holiday season is the opportunity for people to decorate their homes and, if they have one, their garden or yard. The same goes for Thanksgiving decorations reflecting the harvest season as well as the splendid red, gold and brown fall colors. A lot of these decorations developed from many of the old European customs that celebrated the end of the year harvests while others have entirely been developed during the 20th century.

It is common to see, on the lawns or yards of many homes, foddershocks or bunches of cornstalks placed with other Autumn symbols like pumpkins, cushaw, scarecrows and other decorations reflecting the fall season.

For instance, the "wicker man" is one of these decorations, born from the old European pagan customs. This ornament was filled with fruits from the harvest and given as a present to the gods before being set on fire in their honor.

The wreath is another of these old customs of the Fall season. A wreath was woven out of grapevines or thin oak limbs and was usually ornamented with wooden wooden beads, sunflowers, feathers, miniature pumpkins and many other products from the fall season.

The birth of crass commercialism allowed entrepreneurs to focus on a brand new idea: the use of the traditional Christmas lights for Thanksgiving along with many other things like kitchen sets, linen table, tableware, ornamental lights and many other small things. Nowadays, the commercial "tradition" requires that you put cute small "Tom Turkey" figurines on your table and a few pictures of Indians and pilgrims hanging on the walls to enhance the Thanksgiving atmosphere. You can now buy a pre-made wreath decked out with plastic acorns, apples, oak leaves, small gourds, etc. One can now even buy pre-made foddershocks at the local road side flea market or farmer's market.

Of course, you can save a lot of money and have more fun by creating your own Thanksgiving decorations.

Handmade foddershock

Here is very easy foddershock to make at home: take several dried corn stalks (generally left on the side of a corn field at the end of harvest season) tie them together in the midsection of the bunch until they look like a "teepee".

Stand your foddershock up in the selected area of garden or yard and add squash, pumpkins, gourds, around it. You can also add a scarecrow to your new fall decor.

Handmade Scarecrow

To create scarecrows simply tie two sticks firmly together forming a cross. Then put on an old long sleeved shirt, denim or flannel looks best. To build the head of your scarecrow, use an old pillowcase or a cloth bag. Fill it with newspapers, old rags or fiberfill. Use a black marker to draw a face on the fabric and then tie the "head" on the upright stick with a strong bond. Tip: put an old straw hat on top of it. Head alternative: you may use a pumpkin for the head.

These are just some of the decorations you can make at home with your kids. Do not hesitate to use your imagination to create your own traditional Thanksgiving decorations!

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