Celebrate Halloween with these super cute paper bats. Fun FREE Halloween printable bat body where you can make them into the cutest popsicle stick bat puppet bookmarks.

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These Paper Bat Puppets are one of the cutest paper crafts and double as a fabulous Halloween decoration.

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!

Puppet Crafts

Making paper hand puppets that the kids can customize is so much fun! It's a great craft that can be made from simple construction paper and or a simple paper bag like our Ballerina Craft Puppet

During other times of the year, they might be used to making a construction paper hand puppet that they can open and close.

This simple Bat Paper Puppet is sturdy on a popsicle stick. If you're ready to let them have fun, they will love being creative with this puppet.

If you are looking for other fun kids' printable puppets like this one, you will not want to miss our other popular popsicle stick crafts including, the Chinese Dragon Puppet, Flower Bookmark Puppet, Popsicle Stick Pumpkin, and Butterfly Craft For Kids.

Check out our 101+ Animal Crafts too!

Halloween Bats

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 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 these nocturnal animals.

If you're looking for some fun bats, you can easily let the kids have fun with this build-a-bat template printable, popsicle stick bat, and bat paper plate craft.

Don't miss our fun drawing tutorial How to Draw a Bat!

Fun With Bat Crafts

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 bat craft.

The kids can use them for play or just as a simple prop to have in their room as Halloween decorations. These are also really great for teaching them how to follow directions as well as be creative and independent at the same time!

Not to mention how crafting and scissor work helps with building their fine motor skills. Especially in the younger kids.

They're so cute, so simple, and so much fun to make! You'd be "batty" not to make them this Halloween!

Of course, you could also grab our free printable Halloween Bat Coloring page too.

Supplies For Bat Paper Craft

Bat Craft Template - Download Below
Colored Craft Papers
Craft Glue
Black Marker or Black Paint
Pencil
Scissors

*We are leaving the paper selection up to you. If you want a more simple paper bat, start with black paper and white paper.

How to Make a Paper Bat

Select colored craft papers for the bat papercraft puppets. Trace the paper bat 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.

*These paper bats also are super cute with googly eyes.

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 as 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.

How to Make Paper Bats For Wall

Another fun use for paper bats is to hang them on the wall as a "spooky decoration" for your Halloween party.

We realize our paper bats aren't super spooky, but in any case, they would be so cute and hung on the wall as decorations. Simply hang them with two-sided tape or adhesive dots making them into flying bat crafts.

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.

You also do not want to miss our 101+ Fun Coloring Pages For Kids and 101+ Free Kids Printables full of Crafts & Coloring Pages.

Happy Halloween Crafting!

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BAT PAPER PUPPET CRAFT

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.

Course Kids Crafts

Cook Time 15

Total Time 15

Servings Bat Paper Puppet

Author Alli Ward

Equipment

Scissors

Ingredients

Bat Craft Template - Download Below
Colored Craft Papers
Craft Glue
Sharpie
Pencil

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.