Go batty with this fly-by-night Halloween decoration!
What You Need
- vase or tall jar
- pebbles or dried beans (to fill the vase)
- small tree branches
- black construction paper
- googly eyes
- craft glue
- yarn or string
What You Do
- Fill the vase.
Fill a vase with pebbles or beans. Arrange the branches in the vase. - Create the bats.
Draw or trace the outline of several bats on black construction paper. Then cut them out.Here’s a bat pattern you can use:
- Glue on eyes.
For each bat, glue on googly eyes and a loop of yarn, as shown. - Hang the bats.
After the glue has dried, hang the bats from the branches.
Craft by Michele Reyzer; photo by Mark Godfrey