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EXPEDIENT SOLUTION:
This is a fun project for the crew to do. And it's quick and easy. Cut the top out of 3/4" plywood. Make it a slightly irregular circle. Cut out a bottom base that is a few inches wider and more irregular. Attach 2"x4" legs about 18" high in between these two pieces. Then use scraps of 1"x4" lumber at diagonals to frame out the slope of the tree stump sides.
Then cover in muslin. Staple the fabric in such a way that you create crooked pleats. This helps give the look of bark and roots. Cover the muslin with full-strength Scupt-or-Coat glue.
Then paint with grays, browns and black to give highlight and shadow to the barks. Spatter it with paint to give it more texture. Then staple on tiny sprigs of fake ivy along the bottom roots. This is an important touch that helps add realism and helps blend the stump into the groundcloth.
You end up with a practical prop that can be sat on, stood on or used as a small table. It can be saved as a stock piece for any number of shows, from "Peter Pan" to "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
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Notes: Sloan Theatre, Greensboro Day School. Director - Barbara Britton. Set/Lighting Designer - Dana Lowell.
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