If you’re looking for an easy Halloween bat craft to make with your kids this spooky season then our free build a bat printable is here to save the day!
This cute bat is super easy to make and you don’t need any expensive materials to make it either. All you need to do is download our free bat craft template and color, cut and paste for this fantastic Halloween decoration for your home or school.
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Build a Bat Printable
I love our cut and paste crafts and they’ve been really popular with parents and teachers too so I’m really pleased to be able to share this new bat craft with you. It’s perfect if you’re looking for a way to encourage your kids creativity during the Halloween season but it’s also a great option if you are learning about nocturnal animals.
My kids love Halloween and each year as the stores fill up with Halloween goods they start asking about how we’ll be celebrating.
Trick or treating and dressing up is obviously popular and so is getting into the spirit of things by decorating our home with a spooky theme and creating some Halloween crafts.
Thankfully we have loads of free Halloween printables on this site so you can have fun with your little monsters without having to spend a fortune.
These cute bats are perfect for creating, playing with or decorating your home and classroom as you get into the Halloween spirit.
Free Bat Craft Template For Kids
If you like the idea of making some bat crafts with your kids but you want something suitable for younger children then why not check out our printable bat template instead?
It’s free to download and as well as the template itself you’ll find lots of ideas for easy crafts and art projects that you can try at home, in classrooms or in preschool.
Craft Supplies
- Build a bat printable PDF
- White paper or cardstock and printer
- Coloring pencils, colored markers or crayons
- Glue
- Scissors
How To Make Your Build a Bat Printable Craft
Start by printing the PDF file onto white paper or cardstock. In general normal printer paper is fine for most crafts or if you’re thinking of displaying this on your wall or a bulletin board at school but if your child is likely to want to play with this and make their bat fly around then go with cardstock to make it a bit more durable.
Next color in all the parts that you’ll be using to make your bat – the wings, head, feet, ears and your bat’s body. I’ve left the belly fur blank but you can color it if you would prefer.
I’ve also chosen fairly sensible bat colors (black and gray) but what with it being Halloween I couldn’t resist adding a bit of purple.
Go with what works for you, if that’s classic black bats then perfect but if you have a kid who wants a sparkly pink bat then personally I see no problem with that.
Once it’s all colored in grab your scissors and cut all of the different parts out, following the dotted line around each item.
Next take your bat’s head and glue it’s ears onto the back of it so that they are sticking out.
Glue their belly fur onto their main body and then glue the bat’s head onto this before sticking the feet onto the bottom of the bat.
Finally glue your bat’s wings onto the back of their body so that they will stick out from either side and your bat craft is complete.
More Fun Ideas For Using Your Build a Bat Printable
Once you’ve finished making your bat craft you could attach some string to the back of it with a bit of tape and then hang it from your ceiling.
The finished bats would look fantastic displayed in your window or if you are in a classroom you could have a cloud of paper bats displayed on your bulletin board, perfect for spooky season.
More Halloween Printables for Kids
I think that Halloween is my favorite time of the year for sharing kids activities as there’s so many different ideas to work with so it’s no surprise that there’s a lot of free Halloween printables on this site with ideas for all ages to try.
Our ghost template is a great way for little hands to try out some art projects during spooky season and here you can see where we used it to try some resist art.
I absolutely love this 3D haunted house craft that we shared, you can choose this free printable template that’s already colored in for you or grab one to color in and decorate yourself.
It’s perfect for a Halloween decoration at home or for a Halloween party and you can even pop an LED light in it if you’d like it to light up while you wait for trick and treaters!
Finally take a look at our cut and paste spider craft which even comes with a separate spider’s web that you can glue it to.
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Build a Bat Craft (Free Cut and Paste Bat Craft for Kids)
Equipment
- 1 Pair of scissors
- Glue
- Coloring pencils, colored markers or crayons
Materials
- White paper or cardstock
- Build a bat printable (PDF template)
Instructions
- Print the build a bat PDF template onto white paper or cardstock.
- Color in all the parts of the bat and then cut them out using scissors.
- Glue the ears onto the back of the bat's head.
- Attach the belly and feet onto the bat's body using glue and then stick on the bat's head.
- To finish your bat craft stick the bat's wings onto the back of their body so that they stick out from either side.
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