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Handprint Bats

Handprint Bats

Learn to make a fun and spooky handprint bat craft. A great activity for Halloween that doubles as creative home decor!

Equipment

  • Scissors

Instructions 

  • Trace your child’s hand onto your bluecraft paper or just draw a small hand for the wings.
  • Cut your hand out.
  • Place your cut-out hand on the blue paper and trace it to make the second identical wing.
  • Cut out the second handprint.
  • Draw your bat’s head and body onto the blue paper. Cut them out.
  • Using your marker, draw some pointy bat ears onto your blue paper and cut them out.
  • Glue the wings to the back of your bat’s body.
  • Draw the inner part of the ears on your pink paper.
    These should be a bit smaller than your bat’s blue ears. Also draw two pink cheeks and an oval belly that is smaller than the blue belly that you have already made.
    Cut these shapes out.
  • Now, glue your pink inner ears to the bigger blue ones.
  • Glue your ears to the back of your bat’s head. Glue the head onto the bat’s body.
  • Glue the pink belly onto the center of your bat’s body. Also glue on your googly eyes and cheeks.
  • Finally, draw your bat’s smile and teeth. Your bat is complete!
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