Raisie Bay

You are here: Home / holidays / days out / Record Breaking Scarecrows

Record Breaking Scarecrows

by Leave a Comment

A couple of weeks ago we were invited to the National Forest Adventure Farm to build scarecrows for their world record attempt. Well, yesterday they finally broke the Guinness World Record with their 3812th scarecrow, a 12 foot giant creation called Big Ernie. The previous record was 3311 and was held in Cincinnati. (Since this post was published the record has been broken again by a town in Tennessee with 4325 Scarecrows)

Congratulations!!

Here are our scarecrows.

Boo’s Scarecrow was 1951, Star’s was 1952 and the Little Man’s was 1953
The scarecrow workshop was full of hay and donated clothes and the children were given a sack to decorate for the heads. 

Some Interesting Stats:


If you lined up all the scarecrows side by side with the tips of their hands touching, they would spread for 3 miles, form the Adventure Farm to the middle of Burton-On-Trent

The world record line-up has used 5.5 miles of wooden frames

It’s used 8.5 tonnes of straw

3312 sacks for heads, 3312 tops and 3312 trousers

The National Forest Adventure Farm holds lots of events throughout the year including a Pumpkin Picking Spooktacular this October. You Can find the farm in Tatenhill, Burton-On-Trent, Staffordshire. It’s a great place to go for the Maize Maze and you can read all about the rest of our trip here.
Apart from the scarecrows we managed to have a fabulous day out, and it didn’t really take us long to get there from Birmingham. 
 
I’m not sure if the National Adventure farm will ever decide to win back the record, but it was a fabulous sight seeing all those scarecrows on show and it was wonderful to be able to take part in breaking the record. I do hope we will get the chance to visit the farm again though, it really is a fun place to go with such a lot to do. 
Have you ever made a scarecrow? 
 
Maybe you would like to take part in a scarecrow festival, over on 2 Adults 3 Children blog you can find out where to find Scarecrow Festivals in the North West.
 
 

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

error: Content is protected !!