
Easy Handprint Bat Craft
- Gather your materials. You will need black, red and orange construction paper, glue, some crayons, scissors, and googly eyes.
- Start by having your child draw a bunch of fun night time things on the orange paper, stars, a moon, even an owl would be great! If you can help or little one is still young, or skip it like we did. I added the stars etc… after we were done just for y’all.
- Trace your child’s hands on black paper.
- Have your child color the hands with a white crayon.
- While they are coloring draw a bat head Don’t worry about making mistakes we’ll use the opposite side.
Then, cut out small red fangs.
- Cut everything out.
- Next, put two globs of glue on your orange paper for the hands.
- Pop the hands on. Don’t worry about what sides are up (one of ours is upside down) but make sure they meet in the middle.
- Next, add the head.
- Glue on the fangs. I usually add the glue, then help direct him where to put them, saying things like ” Can you point the triangle down”. If I wasn’t blogging it, I wouldn’t be so concerned with how it “looks”. A good tip is to talk about what you are adding, saying “Fangs are big teeth, where should the bat’s teeth go”.
- Finally, add the eyes to your easy handprint bat craft! If your child is still eating things, you can draw eyes on with a white crayon instead.
Song!
by the light of the moon one night
Mama bat said squeak squeak squeak swack!
but only 4 little bats came back.4,3,2,1
No little bats went on a flight
by the light of the moon one night
Mama bat said squeak squeak squeak swack!
and 5 little bats came flying back!
Books!
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teachingtinytots says
cute! you should post that next thursday on mr linky for my toddler theme thursdays i host!
next thursday is hand/foot crafts!
todays is teddy bears
Jamie says
We have a bat here that my oldest made in Kindergarten (with one broken arm). I totally forgot about this! I might have to give it a try with the toddler playgroup I lead weekly. Thanks for posting!
Heather says
Thank you so much for this cute idea!
I love you and your blog! I posted a thread about it over at mine.
You’re just adorable and I love your little songs. 🙂 Have a great weekend!
Allie says
Heather- I checked it out, thank you so much for the shout out!
Ana says
Your activities are awesome – thank you so much for sharing! We just moved to Sydney AU and they don’t really celebrate Halloween here, so it’s nice to be able to keep my son excited about the holiday!
Adam and Megan's Mom says
I made this with Adam just the other day, I’ll have to blog about it. I love that I have his hand prints to compare to future bats we’ll make! Thanks for another great craft!!
Andrea says
Thanks! We love our bats, and put pics up on my blog.
Katie says
I just found your site thanks to a friend of mine. Your crafts are so adorable! Looking forward to making a bat with my little girl 🙂 Thanks!
Amanda says
Just stopping by to let you know that I have featured your project on Fun Family Crafts! You can see it here
http://funfamilycrafts.com/handprint-bats/