Easy Halloween Bat Hanger Craft {Kid Friendly}

Making Halloween crafts is easy as 1-2-3 with the right tools!  {{wink}}  This Easy Halloween Bat Hanger Craft is the perfect activity to make with your little ones and it is fabulous because it is so versatile.  It can be used as a door hanger, wall decor or as a Halloween chandelier!

Supplies:

• Wire Hanger
• Fishing line
• Ribbon for embellishment
• Black, orange, white, and yellow card stock
• ek tools Including:  Scissors, Metallic Glitter, Cutting Mat, Medium scalloped circle punch, thin edger punch, and Permanent glue stick.  Optional Tools:  Tweezers and boning tool {to fold paper in half}.  Here’s a great video featuring things you can create using ek tools if you are interested!} .

Step-by-Step Instructions:

Step 1:

 Spray paint a wire hanger black.  Let dry.

Step 2:  Print and cut out a bat template. {I used #7 from this post:  18 Crafty Halloween Bat Templates}.

Step 3:  

Trace onto a piece of black card stock.  The template I used uses a folded piece of card stock so you only have to cut one side and you open it up and the whole bat is revealed.

Step 4:  

Using the ek tools Thin Edger Punch, punch the edge of the wings to give the wings fun dimension.

Step 5:  

Punch a hole at the top of the bat.  You’ll need this to thread the fishing wire through to hang the bat on the wire hanger.

Step 6:  

Line the edge of the bat wing with a glue stick and then sprinkle with craft glitter.  {I used ek tool Glue and Glitter}

Step 6:  

Using the ek tool Medium Scalloped Circle Punch, punch a bunch of orange, yellow and white circles.

Step 7:  

Glue strips of scalloped circles onto fishing wire using glue stick.  For example, you’ll put two white scalloped circles glued with fishing wire in between back to back.  And so on.

Step 8:  Assemble the bats and lengths of scallops circles on wire hanger and embellish with ribbon.

Step 9:  Enjoy in your home!

Kid Friendly Craft!

The great thing about this craft is that it’s absolutely kid friendly.  They can help with everything, except probably the hanging with the fishing line.  That part is a little tricky because fishing wire can be a bit hard to work with.  It takes a bit more dexterity than most little kids have, unfortunately.  However, the cutting, glueing, punching and glittering are all things that kids can help with and will love to be involved with!

More Halloween Craft Ideas:

• 23 Spirit of Halloween Crafts 
• 18 Craft Halloween Bat Templates
• Halloween Paper Doll Printable

Disclosure:  Let’s give ek success a hand for designing paper crafting tools that are easy to work with and get the job done.  They graciously provided me with the tools to create the Halloween craft pictured and sponsored this post.