If you’re looking for an easy Halloween 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 color, cut and paste to make a fun paper bat that’s going a make a fantastic Halloween decoration for your home or school.
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.
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.
This paper bat is perfect for creating, playing with or decorating your home and classroom as you get into the Halloween spirit.
Bat Template
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 craft PDF
White paper
Coloring pencils, colored markers or crayons
Glue
Scissors
Cut and Paste Bat 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. I’ve gone for 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 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’re sticking out.
Glue their belly fur and feet onto their main body and then glue the bat’s head onto this.
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 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 one for trying 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 version that’s already colored in for you or grab one to color inn and decorate yourself.
It’s perfect for a Halloween decoration 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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Cut and Paste Bat Craft
Use our free bat craft template to make a fun paper bat that’s perfect for Halloween.
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Keyword: free printable, Halloween, kids
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutesActivity Time: 15 minutes minutesTotal Time: 20 minutes minutes
Author: Kate Williams
MaterialsWhite paper or cardstockBat craft PDF
InstructionsPrint the PDF file 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. Glue the belly and feet onto the bat’s body and then stick on the bat’s head. To finish your craft stick the bat’s wings onto the back of their body so that they stick out from either side.
NotesNormal white printer paper is fine for this craft however if you want to make your bat more sturdy then use thicker paper or cardstock.
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