Crafty Halloween Bats

Crafty Halloween Bats

Forget about cute pumpkins and ghosts this Halloween! How about making with your little artists a few crafty spooky bats.

In this fun, budget-friendly project we will transform some painted card into a very cool bat design, using limited resources and loads of creativity!

Suitable for kids from 4 yrs and up – a great project for little kids to practice their cutting and gluing skills,  and improve their fine-motor skills.

A fantastic way to explore and learn about colour/shape/assemblage with your mini-maker. Lets get creepy and creative!

You will need…..

Scissors

Glue stick

A piece of A4 white cardboard

Some paint – red and black are great colours!

A paint brush

Buttons (eyes)

Optional extras…….

Hole punch

A pipe cleaner

Some assorted beads or buttons (for threading)

A piece of chalk

Step 1 – Paint your white card with some paint – use red/black or perhaps a couple of other Halloween-y colours – green/orange/purple. Allow to dry.

Step 2 – Cut your card a bit less than half way across – long ways. The more narrow length will be used for the wings. To make them a bit more the shape of wings, cut a long curved edge along one side from corner to corner. And also a slight curved cut on each short edge of the wings too!

Step 3 – cut about one third off your other strip of card – this can be used for the head of your bat. Cut into the top of the bats head to create ears. Glue the head onto the bat wings into the centre.

Step 4 – use the remaining scraps to create more detail on your bats wings, also eyes, fangs, and legs.  Arrange shapes and glue down well. Use buttons for your bats eyes.

Step 5 – if you still have some scraps left, you could create a baby bat!

Step 6 – Optional extra – hole punch the top of your bats wings, and hook and attach on your pipe cleaner. Perhaps decorate your pipecleaner with some beads and buttons too.

Step 7 – perhaps use some chalk to draw a simple pattern onto your bats wings, maybe some eyebrows too.

Step 8 – display and admire you very cool bat design!

Another great idea – needing very little resources!!! Ans sooooo cute! Imagine making a whole bunch of these and hanging them upside down from the ceiling…..creepy!

We would love to see your halloween projects! Do you have any favourite ‘go-to’ home made Halloween ideas?

Until next time!

Tracy x