Bats in the Kitchen for Halloween

I have my own bats to offer you. The kitchen bat and batty cook cookbook bookmark.

They are available for purchase in the Paperfacet's Etsy and Ebay stores.

Made of shelf paper easily available at the Big Lots store. They are a especially cute animals featuring red crystal eyes and vintage buttons so they can be hung together or flown separately.

Decorate your kitchen all year round and let them loose during Halloween for your own house drama for adults and grandchildren.

You can have a fun afternoon with the children and make your own bats. Hold their interest by doing this craft during Halloween.

Flying right behind the bat is the witch. So scroll down after the bat instructions and get extra fun and make witches too.

This bat is from the paper book "Paper Folding Made Easy" by Kris Mason. (See bibliography below.)

For practice we will start with a 5 inch square of plain paper. Fold it into the water bomb. If you need help with the water bomb I suggest going to Tea Bag Folding and Pattern Instructions and follow Lesson One: Steps One and Two.

Your unit will look like this.



Take the left top side and bring the tip under and down as shown in photo. Do the same with the right side.

Your unit should look like this. It is looking like a bat already.










Take a scissors and snip each side as shown. The wider your space the two snips the bigger the head. Fold down to form the bat's face and ears.










Fold both wings in to the edge of the body. Make a crease and unfold. Cut two scallops at the bottom edge to define the wings.

Done. The kids have their bat.

This is a picture of the folded bat on plain paper that I have highlighted.

Have purple, black, brown and orange paper for the children's folding projects.
Hang with fish line and have a spooky house for Halloween.

Highlight your plain paper bat like above to use as a template for the witch.

A witch can easily be made from the bat pattern. I used magazine pages from fashion magazines and Martha Stewart. You can find black, brown and darkly printed ads and pages that will make scary witches.

Use a template as shown for the bat to aid in laying out a good spot on the paper for the face of the witch.



Fold and clip the face of your square tile of paper identical to the bat.

Next fold paper in half and cut out a shape that looks like a witch's hat. The fold will be at the bottom. The cone should be the same width as the witch head. It does not have to be fancy at all because it will get a crumpling. Use a little glue to glue the folds together. Put a small amount of glue on the ears and top of head and press and hold the hat in place till it adheres.



Make a fold on the cape in back to form the feet.



Get mean and pinch and twist the face to form a witchy nose. Crumble and lightly twist the hat and put folds in the cape tips. Use thread or fish line under the nose and back of hat rim to hang.

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