Celebrate Halloween with these super cute bat paper puppets. Fun FREE Halloween printable bat body where you can make them into the cutest popsicle stick bat puppet bookmarks.
This Bat Paper Puppet is literally the cutest paper craft, ever.
Not only is it super easy, but it’s one of those paper hand puppets that the kids are going to want to make over and over again.
Just in time for Halloween, this needs to be starred as one of the top printables that the kids just have to do! Making paper hand puppets that the kids can customize is so much fun!
If you’re looking for some fun Halloween puppets, you can easily let the kids have fun with this simple bat craft. During other times of the year, they might be used to making a construction paper hand puppet that they can open and close, but this simple Bat Paper Puppet is sturdy on a stick. If you’re ready to let them have fun, they’re going to love being creative with this puppet.
We highlighted this Halloween craft idea for kids along with some other easy crafts in our October Crafts for Kids along with our 101+ Easy Craft Ideas for kids.
Bat Paper Puppet
We have a bit of a bat obsession in our house because they’re small and seem cute from far away so that means we’re automatically curious about them and their lives. Can you blame us?
Bats are one of those creatures that fly around at night and help us all out by eating up the mosquitoes. For that, I love bats. And when Halloween time rolls around, bats are fun because then we all start thinking about bats and how they transition into vampires as well. It’s a fun process to think about celebrating Halloween early with our love of bats.
Fun Ways To Play with This Fun Construction Bat Puppet
Once you find fun ways for your child to play with their bat puppet, it’s an open-close activity that they’ll want to do over and over again. And the best part? The directions below will show step by step directions on how to make this craft.
The kids can use them for imaginary play or just as a simple prop to have in their room to get them excited and ready for Halloween. These are also really great for teaching them how to follow directions as well as be creative and independent at the same time!
If you’re tired of looking for free printables for Halloween fun, stop searching and add this paper bat puppet printable into your craft planning. They’re so cute, so simple, and so much fun to make! You’d be “batty” not to make them this Halloween!
What You Need for This Bat Craft
- Bat Craft Template – Download Below
- Colored Craft Papers
- Craft Glue
- Sharpie
- Pencil
- Scissors
How to Make these Easy Paper Puppets
Select colored craft papers for the bat papercraft puppets. Trace the template patterns on the selected colored craft papers and cut them out nicely using a pair of scissors. The template includes 2 wings, 1 head, 1 lower body pattern, 2 inner ear patterns and 2 eyes.
Stick the eyes on the head part and the inner ear patterns in the middle of the ear parts attached to the head pattern.
Use a sharpie to draw the mouth and then stick the fang cutouts under the mouth traced line.
Stick the head cutout on the top side of the lower body cutout (opposite side to the leg).
You can add stripes or patterns to the wing cutouts like I did.
Stick the wings on both sides of the paper bat’s body part.
Attach the paper bat crafts on popsicle sticks to complete the puppet crafts.
Happy Halloween Crafting!
Download Your Bat Craft Template
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BAT PAPER PUPPET CRAFT
Materials
- Bat Craft Template - Download Below
- Colored Craft Papers
- Craft Glue
- Sharpie
- Pencil
- Scissors
Instructions
Select colored craft papers for the bat papercraft puppets. Trace the template patterns on the selected colored craft papers and cut them out nicely using a pair of scissors. The template includes 2 wings, 1 head, 1 lower body pattern, 2 inner ear patterns and 2 eyes.- Stick the eyes on the head part and the inner ear patterns in the middle of the ear parts attached to the head pattern.
- Use a sharpie to draw the mouth and then stick the fang cutouts under the mouth traced line.
- Stick the head cutout on the top side of the lower body cutout (opposite side to the leg).
- You can add stripes or patterns to the wing cutouts like I did.
- Stick the wings on both sides of the paper bat’s body part.
Attach the paper bat crafts on popsicle sticks to complete the puppet crafts.
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