Toddler Activities: Halloween Bat Mobile

Make a bat to hang from a doorway or make a couple and turn it into a Halloween mobile.

Black Construction paper 9 x 12 inches (two per bat)

Free Printable Bat Pattern

Toilet Paper Roll (1 per bat)

Elmer's Glue or Craft Glue

Wiggly Eyes

Fishing line, bead string or yarn

Stapler (need a thin hand stapler) or packing/mailing tape.

Hanger

Scissors

Black tissue

Stapler

Art smock or old shirt

1. Cut black construction paper to wrap the toilet paper roll. Approximately 4.5 inches x 6.5 inches.

2. Glue on to the toilet paper roll with Elmer's or craft glue. You might want to staple to hold paper down if you have a thin hand stapler or clip with a clothespin to dry securely.

3. Cut string to desired length and staple or tape the string or yarn to the middle of the roll.
4. Printable Bat Pattern

5. Print out pattern and cut pattern out. Fold black construction paper in half. Place on fold as shown. Cut bat out.
6. Open bat and lay on roll. Find the middle where you placed the string. Using tip of sharp scissors, poke a small hole in the back of the bat and string from underneath.
7. Glue bat to roll
8. Crumple a small piece of black tissue and stuff ends of roll. (optional)
9. Bat is ready to hang from doorway or from a hanger.

TIPS AND SUGGESTIONS

Vary length of string for multiple bats for a more interesting display.

Add some spider web decoration to cover the hanger

If you want to angle some down or up, tape a coin to the inside of the toilet paper roll.

EDUCATIONAL TIPS

Read a Halloween story about bats or a non fiction book to learn more about them. Introduce the term nocturnal.