How To : Make Felt Bats

I have been decorating the whole house with Halloween delight, pumpkins, ghosts,
witches, spiders and webs, and I can't forget my little bat friends!

Let me show you how I created my little felt bat friends.

I purchased 2 pieces of eco-felt (.29 cents each) which are made from
recycled bottles that I purchased at Michaels. You can buy it from any local craftshop.

Step 1. Lay the felt piece flat on a table.

Step 2. Fold it in half

Step 3 - 4. It's cutting time!! You can opt to print a bat template online
to use to cut around but I simply cut away!

I started at the top center of the folded half and cut a little straight across for the
top of its head and then cut out a point for the ear.
Then I cut out small triangles all the way around.

 Open them up and you got some bats.
You can also glue some eyes or paint white dots for eye and add little fangs.

Step 5. Time to hang these bats up! This is going to be fun!

You can tie the bats with string and hang them all around the house,

but I wanted to stick them to the wall, so I used glue dots, which you can find at your

local craft store too.

Step 6. Pull a glue dot off

Step 7. Put multiple glue dots on the bat

Put them all over the house! 2 sheets of felt gave me about 10 bats medium sized bats

and I stuck them above the entries and all over for a batastic look!



 

Now it's your turn to try! Show us what you are creating for Halloween. I would love to see it and get inspired.

If you like this tutorial, please let me know, I am thinking about adding some more fun How-To tutorials.

Thanks for stopping by!