This handprint bat craft makes a keepsake Halloween decoration. It goes well with a school lesson about bats. Simple Halloween craft for kids. Includes free bat template.

My son first made this bat craft in preschool. I thought that it was such a cute keepsake Halloween craft that I decided to share it with you.

I never thought that I would say bats are cute, but then I saw my son’s bat handprint craft in his school backpack. It was the cutest bat I had ever seen.

So every year, we make handprint bats to decorate our house for Halloween. The first bat we made, I painted the kids hands black and used that as the handprint wings.

I now make this fall craft by tracing my kids’ hands on black paper and cutting out the handprints. Painted handprints never turn out for me and can be messy.

I hope your family enjoys this bat craft as much as I do .

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Handprint Bat Craft Supplies

• Free bat template (see link below)
• Black construction paper
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Glue
• Googly eyes
• White crayon

Handprint Bat Craft Instructions

Print the free bat’s body template below. To print the free template, click on the picture of the bat’s body or you can download it to your computer.

After printing the bat’s body template, cut out the bat’s body. Then trace around it on a sheet of black construction paper and cut out.

If you don’t want to print out the template, you can draw your own bat’s body on black construction paper.

Then, cut out the bat’s body.

Next, trace around your child’s hands on black construction paper. Cut out your child’s handprints. These will be the bat’s wings.

Then, glue 1 handprint to each side of the bat’s body.

Glue 2 googly eyes on the bat’s head.

Then, using a white crayon, draw a smile on your bat.

I hope you enjoy making this handprint bat craft with your kids.

Ways To Modify This Craft

Instead of tracing around your child’s hands, you can use your child’s painted handprints. Paint your child’s hands with black washable paint and then press down on white paper. Cut around your child’s handprints and glue them to the sides of your bat.

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