With it being a lovely morning earlier, we decided to visit the Flamstead Scarecrow Festival – we being myself, Jack and Em from Love Emily xox. Unfortunately, it did start raining half way round and we did get extremely soaked but we had good fun checking out the scarecrows at the annual Flamstead Scarecrow Festival which has run since 2002.
We made a donation of £2, picked up our voting forms and went to see what they had to offer. They had some really fantastic ones and it was hard to pick our favourites but I took pictures of a few that we liked.
Jack’s favourites were the dragon and the minions (and I quite liked the Alice In Wonderland and Charlotte’s Web ones, the book geek that I am!). There were also some fantastic Daleks that I didn’t manage to take any pictures of, sadly. Everyone else seems to like the minions too > > >
Even though it rained cats and dogs, I really enjoyed my time there and would definitely go again. I love quaint little village pastimes and this one is definitely something special.
As you can see, there were plenty of different scarecrows to vote for – I also really loved the Jack and the Beanstalk one going across the road, brilliant! Jack is being a scarecrow himself in the very last picture as we made our way back to the car. He won’t stop talking about scarecrows now, I think I may have to introduce him to Worzel Gummidge!
This is why I don’t want to move away from this area – we have such lovely little things and I sure would miss them. Do you have quaint little fetes, festivals etc where you live?
Me and my family went to this around 4 years ago! Loved it! The kids were out all day snapping them! 🙂
We have competitions like this every year in the Thirsk/York area. One year in a village called Wass near Thirsk a Mary Poppins scarecrow won because no one could figure out how it was being held in the air! ^_^
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how wonderful. looks like great fun and a wonderful way to bring the community together
Villages often do have quaint traditions. A village I know has a cheese rolling festival!
Oh they are fab. We sometimes go to a scarecrow festival near us – a lot of fun.
Aw bless Jack rocking the drowned rat look. Some of those Scarecrows look quite scary x
We had a local village scarecrow competition and it was so much fun. Love the lego and minions ones
We have a scarecrow festival near us and I love going and visiting with the kids. Although some of them give me nightmares!
This looks fantastic and so wonderfully creative- I love the Lego man and the Mad Hatter!
I had no idea that this was a thing, but it looks so much fun!
Wow, that looks amazing. The dragon wins it for me though followed by the Minions. Stephen :o)
I love it when communities get together like this. Many of the nearby villages near me have well dressings and do similar things.
What a lovely day out.
Loving the lego one
I read about this and it looks like great fun. Lovely to have an event that all the family can get involved with, reflecting so many different skills and interests.
We have a scarecrow festival locally and its always great fun. We love to see what people have made
What an amazing Scarecrow collection. My town has lots of mini festivals throughout the year including a Scarecrow festival that see’s people, community groups, shops and the schools all making scarecrows. I love it.
The minions are ace! And Jack pretending to be a scarecrow is really cute!
The MINIONS the minions are awesome I want them like now please 😉 x
What a wonderful event, people can be so creative, who’d have though scarecrows could be so amazing.