Calling all witches, goblins, and ghouls! The night is dark, the spooks are out, and we’re getting ready to celebrate the scariest time of the year! One of the best parts of Halloween is decorating your home with the spooookiest decorations! Here is an easy idea to garnish your home with simple household products. Kids will be lining up in front of your house to get a good look at your decor this Halloween season!
Learn How to Make this Beautiful Nightmare
What you’ll need to make your hanging house bats:
- Coffee filters (1 filter per bat)
- Purple and black water colors
- Black acrylic paint
- 2 googley eyes
- Silver or gold glitter (optional)
- Glue
- Scissors
- String
Instructions:
- Lay one coffee filter out flat, and then cut it in half.
Cut the coffee filter in half.
- Paint one half purple with watercolor paint and one half black with watercolor paint. Let them dry for 20 minutes.
- While they are drying, paint a clothes pin black with acrylic paint and add glitter if you would like.
The Painted and Decorated 'Body' of the Bat
- Stick 2 googley eyes at the top of the clothes pin.
- Take your dried coffee filter halves and on the rounded side’s edges, cut small half circles to form points on the wings.
Cut semi-circles into the coffee filter wings.
- Place the purple filter on the inside of the black filter and scrunch them in the middle to make the wings curve slightly.
Scrunch the Wings into the Bat Body
- Glue one end of the piece of string onto the back of the clothes pin.
- Once dry, hang on your porch for all the trick or treaters to see these boo-tiful bats!
Enjoy your acrobatic-looking bats!
Don’t just share with the neighborhood kids. Share with the world!
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Great idea and easy for kids! I will try with my Daisy Scout troop as well as with my own kids.
Love it too cute we don’t drink coffee so no filters here I’m gonna try to use tissue paper for gift wrapping and try that
For younger children you may consider just painting the body with black paint instead of using glitter.
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OOhh, super cute!! I’ll definitely be crafting there