Australiana Scarecrow Ideas

Waltzing Matilda Scarecrow Idea

Here is a live scarecrow swagman in a scarecrow display of the famous old song, Waltzing Matilda.

(Kurrajong Scarecrow Festival)

(Scarecrows in Motion display, Kurrajong Scarecrow Festival)

This scarecrow display, Man From Strawy River, was based on the famous poem, Man From Snowy River, by Banjo Paterson:

(Scarecrows in Motion display, Kurrajong Scarecrow Festival)

The following Australian songs, poems and historical subjects also feature colourful characters and scenes that would make good themes for a scarecrow display:

• Clancy of the Overflow
  
• Click Go the Shears
  
• The Drover’s Dream
  
• Man From Ironbark
  
• Mulga Bill’s Bicycle
  
• Road to Gundagai
  
• Springtime It Brings on the Shearing
  
• Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport
  
• Wild Colonial Boy
  

• Indigenous Australians
  
• Convicts
  
• Bushrangers: eg Ned Kelly, Ben Hall
  
• Shearers
  
• Gold Rush
  
• Anzac