Halloween Crafts: Hand Bats

After watching an old Fall/Halloween Barney video, we felt inspired to make these bats!

So easy, even the tiny tots were able to join in.

You will need:

• Black & white construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Pencil or white crayon
• Black crayon, colored pencil, or marker

Step One:
Fold the black construction paper in half. Using a pencil or white crayon, trace your child’s hand onto the black paper.

Depending upon the size of your child’s hand, you will end up with 2-4 “bats” traced onto the paper.

Step Two
Cut out the “bats” you traced. Open the bats flat on the table.

Note: On the Barney movie, the kids cut off the thumbs from the hands. We did this a few times, but we also left the thumbs on some of them. You can decide whether or not to cut off the thumbs on your own bats.

Step Three
You now need to cut out “eyes” for your bats. Take the white construction paper and cut out circles.

Once your circles are all cut out, you can take a black crayon and draw small circles in the middle.

If you want to make scary bats, use red for the eyes instead.

Step Four
Glue the eyes onto your bats using glue or tape.

That’s it!

Your bats are now ready to be hung up on the wall, window, door or wherever you like.

Like I said before, these are so easy to make.Even the baby (23 months) really enjoyed making her own.

Easy and really cheap!

Have fun making your bats!

Tags: Crafts, Halloween

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