Make bright and colourful 3D Bat Doodle Art using our latest template.
This creative project makes great wall art for Autumn or Fall (or any season) and is also a fun, non-scary craft for Halloween.
Bats have a bad reputation and are associated with all things Halloween. This is probably because they like to hang out in caves, only come out at night and are good friends with a count named Dracula.
But when you take a closer look, bats are pretty cute. Also, the majority of species eat fruit and insects, not blood (although vampire bats and a select few others do, like Australia’s lesser-known Ghost Bats).
These pattern art bats are the friendly, fruit eating kind. They still come out at night but they want to have fun. They’re a “life-of-the-party” kind of bat and good friends with our pattern art owls.
Decorate your bat in pattern art to help them stand out!
You can make your bat’s body from black or grey paper like a real one, but they also look good on bright colours, like pink. Or bright backgrounds, like yellow.
Like all our pattern art projects, this is best for kids aged 8 and over.
If you need patterning ideas, we have a free printable doodle art swatch sheet here.
Are you ready to make one?
How to make 3D Bat Doodle Art
You will need
- Card stock in white plus two colours of your choice
- Markers – either permanent ‘sharpie’ markers or regular kids washable markers
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- The Bat Art template, available from our printables store and TPT store
How to
Print the bat details and support strips to white card stock and the body shape to a colour of your choice. If you want to use black or a dark colour, it’s easier to print to white and then trace it on black using a lead pencil.
Decorate the bat wings and other details with doodle art patterns and colour in.
Cut the support strips out, then fold and glue them into squares. For folding accuracy you can score the fold lines first using a ruler, cutting mat and scoring tool but this step is not essential.
Cut the bat body shape, wings and doodle art details out.
Glue the wings and tail onto a backing sheet of card stock. They will overlap the edge of your page.
Glue the stomach, feet and ears and facial details onto the body.
On the back of the bat body, glue the six support squares.
Glue the body into place over the wings and tail.
Now hang your Bat Art on the wall to brighten up the room!
More Halloween Art Ideas for kids
- Create sponge-painted jack-o-lanterns or natural pumpkin art
- This monster painting project is so fun
- Create 3D Doodle Art Spiders on a delicate, hand-drawn web
Check out more of our printable doodle art projects
