IT IS NOW HARVEST TIME.

I am a scarecrow standing in the field and it is my job to scare away all the birds that try to eat the crops.

Here come those birds again.

(Action: birds fly around crop and Scarecrow chases them)

That’s a job well done - they are all gone.

Now its time to gather the lovely ripe apples for our apple pie.

(Action: children form a line and pass the fruit down from the tree)
We need a very big basket to gather some more produce from the fields

Lets make a big basket now.

(action: children link arms and form a basket)

I will fill our basket with pears, grapes, lemons, oranges, walnuts, hazelnuts, pumpkins and barlet.

(action - scarecrow moving and dancing around the basket dropping imaginary
things in - as our human basket responds with each inclusion)

Our basket is so full that it is overflowing

(action - basket stands and bursts apart)

Here is the golden wheat that has been threshed

We will make bread and scones from the wheat for our harvest picnic.
THANK YOU EARTH
THANK YOU SUN
AND
THANK YOU RAIN
HAPPY HARVEST

Story by Davini Malcolm