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Home » Holidays » Halloween » Easy Folded Paper Bat

Easy Folded Paper Bat

October 17, 2016 by Crystal McClean

Halloween is approaching and it’s time to start crafting up to decorate the house.  Bats are one of those things that people association with Halloween.  Of course, really they’re all a part of nature, and are a useful part of the food chain, keeping their bellies full by eating mosquitoes, midges, and other little pests.  This little folded paper bat won’t keep the pests away, but it will be create atmosphere.

Easty Folded Paper Bats for Halloween decorating at Castle View Academy

Bat Supplies

  • Black or brown construction paper
  • Glue
  • Scissors
  • Thread or string
  • Hole punch
  • Sequins or wiggly eyes
  • Stapler

Technique

Take one piece of black construction paper and accordion fold it to create the wings.  Staple it in the middle to hold it in place.

making wings for our bats at Castle View Academyy

Draw out a body/face shape on another piece of paper.  If the kids are younger, you can draw and oval for the body and triangles for the ears and they can cut them out and glue them together.

Making a paper bat for Halloween at Castle View Academy

Glue on the sequins or googly eyes to the face, and add little white paper triangle for fangs if you’d like.

Making Halloween decorations at Castle View Academy

Punch a hole through the wings and thread some thread or string through and knot it.  This is, of course, how you will hang the bat.

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Paper bats with character at Castle View Academy

Glue the body onto the front of the wings and let them dry before finding a place to hang your paper bat up.  Perhaps even find a place a little ways from a wall so that it’ll create a spooky shadow against it.

Easy paper bats for Halloween, great for young kids to make at Castle View Academy

Make several – the more the better!  And if you want to see our adventures in building a real bat house, check it out here.

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Filed Under: Autumn, Craft, Halloween Tagged With: AF-AM, Animals, Paper

About Crystal McClean

I am a Mom, Wife, Home Educator, and Virtual Assistant. We love to have fun together while learning and exploring our environment.

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Comments

  1. Sheila @ BrainPowerBoy says

    October 20, 2016 at 1:37 am

    Love the bats! What a creative and fun Halloween craft 🙂 Shared!

 
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