Halloween Craft Idea: How to Make Floating, Hanging Bat Decoration

How to Make Hanging Bat Decorations
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Description: No house would truly be haunted without a swarm of bats hanging and flying about. These cardboard creatures of the night look terrifically lifelike as they dangle from the ceiling and the walls. Your kids can help assemble the bat and place the eyes on. Watch them as they are proud to display their floating bat creatures around the home. These hanging bat decorations are sure to greet Halloween party guests for a night of festive fun!

You Will Need:
Toilet tissue tube
Black tempera paint and brushes
Black poster board
Googly eyes
Black felt (optional)
Elastic cording
Stapler

How to make it:

1. For each bat, cut out two triangular ears from one end of a toilet tissue tube. Next, flatten the other end and staple it shut about 1 inch from the bottom. Cut a crescent shape in the stapled end to form the bat's tail.

2. Paint the tube black and let it dry.

3. Next, cut out a wing shape from a 1-foot-long strip of black poster board. (For a more hair-raising look, first glue a veneer of black felt to the poster board.) Staple the wings to the bat's body.

4. Glue on googly eyes.

5. Finally, staple the elastic cord to the bat's back at the balance point, then hang the creature from the ceiling.