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Halloween Handprint Bat Craft

This Halloween handprint bat craft is perfect for kids how love to get messy. This is a quick, easy and inexpensive craft idea and is perfect for toddlers and younger kids. Plus moms and dads will love to keep these handprint crafts and hang them every year.

This Halloween craft will look great hanging in the classroom, on the fridge or on any wall that you want to make look scary for this Halloween. Just a paint brush, some washable paint, paper and your kid's hands are all you will need to help them make a perfect Halloween handprint bat.

Supplies

halloween handprint bat craft for toddlers

Construction paper
Black and red washable paint
Paint brush
Wax Paper or newspaper

How to Make a Handprint Bat Craft

Step 1

Lay out some wax paper or newspaper in your work area. Make sure the kids are wearing work clothes and not their good clothes as this one can get messy.

Step 2

Place a piece of construction paper on top of the wax paper. Any color but black or red works best.

Step 3

halloween handprint bat instructional picture

Have your child make a fist with their right hand and paint the outside of the side of their hand with red paint. Have them press this against the paper just slightly right of the center.

Repeat this with their left hand and have them press their left hand (the side) right next to the first one. This will form the bats body.

Tip: You may have to fill in the body a bit with the red paint.

Step 4

Have the kids wash the paint off from their hands and dry their hands. This will give the red paint a bit of time to dry.

Step 5

handprint bat craft instructional picture

Turn the paper upside down so that the bottom of the bat is at the top. This will insure that when they place their handprint the fingers (for the wing) will be facing the right direction.

Step 6

Paint their right hand (fingers, thumb and palm) black. Have them place their right hand on the left side of the upside down bat. The thumb should be the furthest from the body of the bat.

Step 7

Paint their left hand and have them place it on the right side of the upside down bat. Allow the paint to dry.

Step 8

Fill in the bat by giving him some ears, eyes and a mouth. You can even add some scary fangs if you want.

You can use all black for your bat or try using a deep purple and brown colors. Be creative and glue on some wiggle eyes and a bow tie if you want to accessorize.

In addition to this handprint bat craft check out these other fun Halloween crafts.

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