Bat Bags

What You Need:

• Construction paper, brown and black
• Thin black marker
• White gel pen
• Pencil
• Scissors
• Glue stick
• Self-locking/self-standing bags
• Mini stapler, or double-stick tape
• Lots of treats!

What You Do:

1. Have your little creator draw bat wings on a sheet of black paper. The span of the wings should be slightly wider than the width of the bag. Cut the wings out and set them aside.
2. Encourage your child to draw a bat body (a long oval with two pointy ears), on a sheet of brown paper. Have them cut it out and set it aside.
3. Ask them how many bats they want to make, which will depend on how many bags you are making. Now, have them start making the bats.
4. Begin with the brown paper, and ask your child to fold it in half three times. Trace the bat body on top of the folded paper and cut through all of the paper around the outline of the bat. They should end up with 6 bat bodies. Continue until they have enough bodies for all of the bags.
5. Ask them to repeat the same tracing and cutting process for the bat wings, using the black paper.
6. Have them glue all of the bat bodies onto the bat wings. 
7. Draw the face on the bat using a black marker, and fangs using the white gel pen.
8. Fill the bags with treats and seal them shut.
9. Help them staple or double-stick tape the bats onto the front of the bags at varying angles so they appear to be flapping around.
10. Line them up on a party table and cause a commotion!