When Halloween rolls around, bats swoop in to add a touch of mystery and spookiness. Their silhouette against a bright moon or the sound of their wings is a classic symbol of the season.
Your little ghosts and ghouls can make their own not-so-spooky bat with this easy torn paper bat craft! Kids will enjoy ripping pieces of paper and gluing them onto our bat template to create a colorful, textured masterpiece.
Be sure to check out more of our Halloween crafts for kids. We have plenty of spooky fun in store, with projects featuring bats, zombies, and everything in between!
Ripped Paper Bat Craft
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Tearing and gluing paper helps build fine motor skills and improve bilateral coordination and hand-eye coordination. Plus, they’re building their dexterity, improving their focus, and creating a spook-tacular bat to show off this Halloween.
Grab the free bat template, some paper, glue, and your kiddos to enjoy this hands-on project that’s perfect for the Halloween season.
Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- White paint pen
- Bat template (unlock the free template at the end of the post)
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 bat to life!
First, encourage your child to spread glue on the bat’s body.
Next, tear the black paper into small pieces, then glue them onto the background paper.
Place the inner ears in the center of the outer ears and glue them in place.
Now, help your child glue the eyes below the ears.
Finally, guide your child in drawing the nose and mouth of the bat with a white paint pen.
Be sure to check out our torn paper crafts while you’re here! There are so many fun ideas!
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Easy Halloween Ideas
Bring the magic of Halloween into your home or classroom with some of our favorite fun and easy Halloween ideas! We have a bunch of activities to keep kids learning and entertained all October long! Your little ones will have a blast with so many different ways to explore the spooky season.
Read on below for some seasonal ideas on books to enjoy with the kids, creative DIY projects, and engaging educational activities that will add extra thrills to your Halloween celebrations!
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!
Homemade Halloween Crafts
Frankenstein Card Craft – Get your little monsters in the Halloween spirit by making this adorable Frankenstein card! They’ll love creating their own famous green monster to share with friends or to decorate with for Halloween.
It’s a fun way to use their creativity and spread some spooky cheer this season!
Related: Halloween Coloring Pages
Witch Paper Cup Craft – Kids will have spellbinding fun transforming a paper cup into a wickedly cute witch this Halloween. They’ll be brewing up creativity and fine motor skills with this project that’s perfect for getting into the Halloween spirit!
Mummy Gnome Craft – Halloween is all about costumes, and our little gnome friends want in on the fun, too! Kids will love wrapping up this adorable gnome as a spooky mummy! Grab our template to transform him into a candy hunting, bandage wrapped gnome!
Halloween Paper Bag Puppets – Have a pumpkin packed halloween with these jack-o-lantern puppets! These cute puppets bring some spooky fun to storytelling or playtime, and will have kids grinning from ear to ear all season!
Free Halloween Printables
Start your Halloween fun by reading the story of a friendly witch and her cat’s adventures in Room on the Broom! To keep the magic going, print our Room on the Broom worksheets that are designed to be the perfect companion to this beloved book.
Kids will enjoy boosting their fine motor skills, recognizing patterns, mastering the letter ‘Dd,’ and expanding their vocabulary with activities like line tracing, witch labeling, completing patterns, and character flashcards. These worksheets are a fantastic way to make learning fun and festive!
Take a flight into learning fun with these bat worksheets! Kids can explore more about bats as they label parts of it, from wings to feet, while practicing their scissor skills.
Try this Zombie Cat Puppet Craft
Next, they can buzz through our “B is for Bat” letter maze, sharpening their letter recognition and problem solving abilities as they follow the maze of uppercase and lowercase ‘Bb’s. Finally, they’ll refine their handwriting by tracing and writing the word, bat, and letter ‘Bb’s on our handwriting page.
These candy corn pattern printables are a festive, no prep way to mix Halloween fun with learning! They’re great for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice pattern recognition, scissor skills, and fine motor development.
As they cut and glue the candy corn squares, they’re strengthening small hand muscles and learning to use just the right amount of glue. It’s a playful and educational treat for little learners this season!
Add a little magic to your child’s day with these witch line tracing printables! These worksheets bring Halloween fun to learning and practicing pre-writing skills for preschoolers.Teachers and parents alike will love how these printable pages help kids strengthen fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
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As kids trace horizontal lines alongside cute witches, they’ll be building foundational skills for writing all while enjoying a bewitchingly fun activity!
Share With Us
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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
Torn Paper Bat Craft
Your little ghosts and ghouls can make their own not-so-spooky bat with this easy torn paper bat craft!
Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- White paint pen
- Bat template
Instructions
- Download the template, print it, and cut out the necessary pieces.
- Begin by spreading glue on the bat's body.
- Next, tear the black paper into small pieces, then glue them onto the background paper.
- Place the inner ears in the center of the outer ears and glue them in place.
- Now, glue the eyes below the ears.
- Finish off by drawing the nose and mouth of the bat below the eyes with a white paint pen.
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Sam is the crafter and founder of Simple Everyday Mom. She has been featured in Oprah Mag, Good Housekeeping, The Spruce Crafts, Country Living, The Bump and more. Read more.
Donna
Tuesday 29th of October 2024
Love this less messy Halloween craft idea!
Sam
Wednesday 30th of October 2024
Thank you! So glad you like the mess-free vibes for Halloween!
Tammy
Monday 28th of October 2024
I would love this bat template, please.
Sam
Wednesday 30th of October 2024
Of course! To get the template, you'll need to have a free Grow account. If you are a free SEM+ Grow subscriber, please login (by clicking the “login or sign up free to unlock” button on the image) and it'll unlock the download image. If not, you can sign up for free and it'll also unlock. For more information on how this works, you can check out the details here.
John
Monday 28th of October 2024
Can't wait to have my students do the activity!
Sam
Wednesday 30th of October 2024
Awesome! I hope they like it!
Ashley
Monday 28th of October 2024
pls send
Sam
Monday 28th of October 2024
Of course! To get the template, you'll need to have a free Grow account. If you are a free SEM+ Grow subscriber, please login (by clicking the “login or sign up free to unlock” button on the image) and it'll unlock the download image. If not, you can sign up for free and it'll also unlock. For more information on how this works, you can check out the details here.
Sue
Monday 28th of October 2024
Great!
Sam
Wednesday 30th of October 2024
Thank you!