{"id":3691,"date":"2015-09-27T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-10-27T20:53:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T09:53:35","slug":"flying-bat-craft-for-kids-and-preschoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/2015\/09\/flying-bat-craft-for-kids-and-preschoolers.html","title":{"rendered":"A Flying Bat Craft Kids Will Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve wanted to make this easy\u00a0flying bat\u00a0craft<\/strong>\u00a0for kids for a while and with Halloween coming up I decided it was time. I googled images of bats to see exactly what the little fellows look like. I always thought bats were cute and they are…just look at those faces…and they have sweet little voices too.<\/p>\n

I know because we have a mulberry tree in our garden and every November when the fruit ripens the local bats<\/a> come to enjoy a little midnight snack. They always seem to be chatting and making all sorts of strange sounds which I enjoy listening to…although I think my neighbours disagree. Anyway, if you’d like to make your own very well-behaved flying bat toy for your kids just read on…or if you’d like to make some bat pins<\/a> I’ve got you sorted too!<\/p>\n

I’ve made my bat with black felt but I think rainbow coloured bats would look amazing too.<\/p>\n

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What You Need to make your flying bat<\/b>
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\n<\/b>25 x 12cm felt<\/a>
\n60cm length wire
\n16cm length of wire
\nGoogle eyes
\nGlue<\/p>\n

What to do<\/b>
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\n<\/b>1. Download and print out the flying_bat_template<\/a>. Cut out two bat shapes from black felt.<\/p>\n

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2. Bend the 16cm wire into a “bird” shape and glue across the wings.<\/p>\n

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3. Glue the 60cm wire into place.\u00a0I’ve used light coloured wire in steps 2 and 3 to make it easier to see what I’m doing but the actual wire is black as in the final photo.<\/p>\n

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4. Glue the remaining felt bat shape on top. Glue on wiggly eyes.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Happy Halloween!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
And if you’d like to make a butterfly in flight have a look at this one<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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PIN FOR LATER<\/div>\n
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Save<\/span>Save<\/span><\/p>\n

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I’ve wanted to make this easy\u00a0flying bat\u00a0craft\u00a0for kids for a while and with Halloween coming up I decided it was time. I googled images of bats to see exactly what the little fellows look like. I always thought bats were cute and they are…just look at those faces…and they have sweet little voices too. I … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,115,104,112],"tags":[120,101],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-halloween-sewing-projects-for-the-family","category-holiday-projects","category-sewing-projects-for-kids","category-tutorials","tag-bat","tag-halloween","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}