Find out how to make this paper bat craft for toddler's halloween activity

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This year my kids are all about bats. From bat costumes to books we are learning a lot about them. This post shows how to make a Flying Bats Craft. Your kids will have as much fun making it as they will playing with it. It doesn’t take a lot of time or expensive items to have fun celebrating Halloween!

Flying Bats Craft

What your need

Instructions

Start by printing out the toilet paper tube bat template. Cut out the template and trace each piece onto black constructions paper 8-10 times (16-20 for the ears).

Discover how to make this fun paper bat craft for your toddler's halloween activity

Learn how to make this fun paper bat craft for toddler's halloween activity

Next, cut out all of those pieces and separate them into little piles. You can, of course, have your preschooler cut these pieces themselves.


Learn how to make this fun paper bat craft for your toddler's halloween activity

Cut several empty toilet paper tubes in half (so we could have twice as many bats, of course).

Find out how to make this fun paper bat craft for toddler's halloween activity

Next, have your child glue the bat body around the toilet paper roll. They can use a glue stick or any glue that is normal for you.

Find out how to make this fun paper bat craft for your toddler's halloween activity

Next, you child can put glue in the middle of the bat wings and press it against the back of the bat body.

Discover how to make this paper bat craft for toddler's halloween activity

Then, have them put a little bit of the glue on the end of each bat ear and press the inside of the toilet paper tube. Discover how to make this paper bat craft for your toddler's halloween activity

Finally, use a white crayon and draw a face on the front of the flying bat. You could also used googly eyes rather than a white crayon on your flying bat.

Learn how to make this paper bat craft for toddler's halloween activity

Learn how to make this paper bat craft for your toddler's halloween activity

Finish by hanging the flying bats from our ceiling using thumb tacks.

I’m not sure what we’ll do when it’s time to take them down, but they could maybe be considered Thanksgiving décor. No? Hmmmm, I guess I’ll just have to tell the kids that the Pilgrims used to dress up as bats to show their thanks*.

*Don’t worry, I’m not going to actually do this. 🙂