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Bat Gnome Craft For Kids (Free Template)

Dressing up for Halloween is one of the holiday’s most fun traditions! Kids love to become their favorite characters with each costume they put on. Our little gnome loves to dress up, too!

Kids can help the gnome dress up for Halloween as a bat with this fun bat gnome craft. This paper craft transforms a whimsical gnome into a bat complete with wings and ears in just a few simple steps!

Check out our bubbling cauldron of creativity even for more Halloween crafts for kids. They’ll keep them entertained, learning, and excited for the upcoming holiday.

How To Make A Bat Gnome From Paper

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Besides all the fun kids will have dressing up their gnomes, they’ll also be able to use their imaginations to come up with exciting stories of their bat gnome’s Halloween adventures. This craft is also a great way for kids to practice using their fine motor skills to cut and glue this fun decoration.  

You’ll need colored paper, scissors, glue, and a dash of Halloween spirit to prepare for this craft. To make things even easier, we’ve included a free template to guide you through the steps.

Supplies

color cut and paste version of bat gnome craft

Directions

Start by downloading the template and printing it out. Once the template is printed, gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring the gnome to life!

hands holding printed template of bat gnome craft

First, encourage your child to glue the gnome’s face onto the beard.

hands gluing face to beard of bat gnome craft

Glue the eyes to the center of the gnome’s face.

hands gluing eyes to face of bat gnome craft

Next, glue the nose to the center of the gnome’s face, just below the eyes.

hands gluing nose to face of bat gnome craft

Take the gnome’s hat and glue it to the top of his head.

hands gluing hat on top of bat gnome craft

Place the inner ears onto the outer ears and glue them down.

hands gluing ear pieces together for bat gnome craft

Position the ears at the bottom of the gnome’s hat, one on each side, and glue them down.

hands gluing ears to hat of bat gnome craft

Now, help your child to glue the entire gnome’s head to the bat’s body.

hands gluing gnome body to bat body

Take the shoes and glue them to the base of the gnome’s bat body.

hands gluing shoes for bat gnome craft

Color in the pumpkin, then glue it to the middle of the gnome’s body.

hands gluing pumpkin template to bat gnome craft

Finally, guide your child to glue the gnome’s hands to the pumpkin to make it look like he is holding it.

hands gluing gnome hands to the pumpkin

We have a lot more fun Gnome crafts for your kiddos to make during this special time of year.

hand holding finished bat gnome craft with another in the background

Easy Halloween Ideas

As Halloween approaches, parents and teachers alike are looking for simple yet engaging ways to celebrate this enchanting season with children.

We’ve gathered a collection of holiday themed books, crafts, and educational activities perfect for kids. Keep reading below for a cauldron full of ideas to set the stage for a season filled with laughter, exploration, and endless learning possibilities.

two examples of finished bat gnome craft

Halloween Books For Kids

Below are some of the top-rated Halloween books for kids. Add them to your home collection or borrow them from your local library.

Room On The Broom: This has to be one of our favorite Halloween books of all time! The story follows a witch and her cat as they happen upon some animals who help the witch. There’s danger, mystery, and friendship in this adorable children’s story.

5 Minute Spooky Stories: We love Disney’s 5-minute storybooks and this one is perfect for Halloween! See how all your favorite Disney characters celebrate this spooky holiday.

Ten Timid Ghosts: This is a fun countdown book about a witch who moves into a haunted house where 10 ghosts already live. The witch scares the ghosts out one by one until they devise a scheme to get her out of their house. This Halloween children’s book is good for kids who love rhyming stories!

hand holding finished bat gnome craft with another example in background

Halloween Craft Ideas

Halloween Black Cat Craft – This craft is a purr-fectly fun Halloween activity for your little ones! This craft is a fantastic way for kids to boost their fine motor skills, and it’s easier than it looks, thanks to our free printable template.

Witch Pumpkin Craft – Let’s brew up some crafting magic with this fun pumpkin craft! Your little witches and wizards will turn their paper pumpkin into a cute and friendly witch. They can customize her using their big imaginations.

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Monster Popsicle Stick Craft – Grab the paint brushes and our free template, because it’s time to let your kids’ imaginations run wild creating their own monsters! They’ll craft a spooky and cool Halloween decoration while sharpening their artistic and fine motor skills.

Forky Pumpkin Craft – This craft is a fun alternative for carving pumpkins for your kiddos who are a little too young. They can dress up their pumpkin as a favorite Toy Story character when they make this craft!

Halloween Activities For Preschoolers

With these Halloween pattern block mats, you can incorporate a little Halloween fun into a no-prep, STEAM activity. Kids will sharpen their fine motor skills as they place each block within the shape outlines.

Using the pattern blocks with the block mats is also an easy way to incorporate planning skills and problem solving. To use these festive mats all October long, be sure to laminate them to use them again and again.

two side by side examples of bat gnome craft

When you need a quick and easy activity to pull out for the kids, have these Halloween color by number printables on hand. These festive illustrations inspire creativity while reinforcing number recognition, color recognition, fine motor skills, and concentration.

They’ll follow the key at the bottom of each page to know what color to use on each numbered space to reveal some spooky pictures!

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Use this Frankenstein art project as a fun way for kids to use their artistic skills this Halloween! Set them up with a few supplies like watercolors, paper, scissors, and glue to create a monstrous masterpiece.

They’ll paint and cut out all the pieces from the template and then put them all together to make a scene featuring the famous monster.

single example of bat gnome craft

Teach your little ones new words with these fun printable Halloween flashcards! Literacy skills are essential to creating fluent readers, and these flashcards expose them to more words to build their vocabulary.

As kids use these flashcards, they’ll learn more vocabulary and associate words with items from the pictures on each card. Your young readers will learn to say certain words, sound them out, and gain confidence in reading aloud with festive Halloween words. 

Share With Us

Did you make this activity with your kids or students? We’d love to feature them on our social media!

For a chance to have your child’s project featured, simply snap a picture of the completed project and post it to our Facebook page, email it to us directly by clicking here, or use #simpleeverydaymom on your social media!

More Halloween Ideas For Kids

hand holding finished bat gnome craft with another in the background

Bat Gnome Craft For Kids

Prep Time: 8 minutes
Active Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 23 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Kids can help the gnome dress up for Halloween as a bat with this fun bat gnome craft.

Materials

  • Colored cardstock or construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Bat gnome template

Instructions

  1. Download the bat gnome template, print, and cut out the pieces you need.
  2. Begin by gluing the gnome's face onto the beard.
  3. Glue the eyes to the center of the gnome's face.
  4. Next, glue the nose to the center of the gnome's face, just below the eyes.
  5. Take the gnome's hat and glue it to the top of his head.
  6. Place the inner ears onto the outer ears and glue them down.
  7. Position the ears at the bottom of the gnome's hat, one on each side, and glue them down.
  8. Now, glue the entire gnome's head to the bat's body.
  9. Take the shoes and glue them to the base of the gnome's bat body.
  10. Color in the pumpkin, then glue it to the middle of the gnome's body.
  11. Finish up by gluing the gnome's hands to the pumpkin to make it look like he is holding it.

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Beatrice Plettinckx

Monday 23rd of October 2023

i would love to have the template please. Looks like fun to create it with my grandkids. Thank you

Sam

Monday 23rd of October 2023

Since you’re already an email subscriber, all you need to do is enter your email in the form at the end of any post and it’ll automatically redirect you to the download page ◡̈

cynthia little

Friday 13th of October 2023

looks fun

Sam

Friday 13th of October 2023

Thanks! We hope the kids like it!

Brittony Hulley

Thursday 12th of October 2023

Awesome

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