Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Kids devastated after Dummy goes missing
NURSERY kids have been left “di-straw-t” after their garden scarecrow mysteriously disappeared.
Dummy the Scarecrow took pride of place in the vegetable patch at Great Beginnings Nursery.
The kids at the Monifieth pre-school had worked on creating the mannequin f or the Scarecrow Trail at the beginning of June.
It was placed at the nursery on Friday but when the kids arrived yesterday, there was no trace of the 6ft figure to be found.
Lori Birse, 21, a teacher at the nursery, said: “The kids are distraught.
“It was made to look like a Minion character and took weeks to make.”
Ms Birse said that after the end of the Longforgan Scarecrow Trail, Dummy was lying about not really doing much, so the nursery decided to stand him up in the garden, which is part of a joined garden project with Grove Academy.
Now, with the scarecrow gone, the kids are appealing to get Dummy back.
Ms Birse added: “When the children came i n yesterday morning, they asked to go to see Dummy but when the teacher walked round to let the kids see him, he was nowhere to be seen.
“He was put out last week and the last thing we expected was for him to just disappear.
“Since the discovery the kids have been asking loads of questions: where he could have gone and why someone would take him.
“It’s has been a difficult day for us all.
“At the moment we have just told them he has gone on holiday.
“But all the kids want to see him back in the patch.
“They have been left feeling pretty down by t he whole experience.
“The kids are wanting to put an appeal out to find Dummy so he comes back.
“A lot of hard work was put in by the kids to create him, so they do have an attachment to him.
“It’s not a nice feeling seeing something you have worked on just disappear.”
Ms Birse said the disappearance is unexplained and nobody was sure why someone would take it.
She added: “It is pretty confusing why someone would take the scarecrow. It wouldn’t have been easy either — it’s about six feet tall and quite hefty.
“It did go missing over the weekend, so I think it’s likely somebody has come in to the garden and taken it away for a laugh.
“I’ll be honest and say that I don’t think we are going to see Dummy again.
“But you never know — we might see him again.”