These sweet hanging toilet roll bats are a fun and easy recycled Halloween craft that kids can really get creative with. Made from simple cardboard tubes, paper and pipe cleaners, they’re a lovely way to turn something you’d normally throw away into a cute Halloween decoration.
We made a whole little collection of colourful bats and hung them upside down from a piece of string to create our own DIY Halloween garland for the porch. They look adorable hanging together and would be perfect for decorating the home, a classroom, party table or Halloween craft corner.
I love this idea for a classroom project - You can make each bat a little different, changing the colours, faces and wing shapes to give them their own personalities.
Here's what we used
- Tp roll
- Coloured paints and paintbrush
- Coloured card
- Pipe cleaner
- Coloured paper
- Scissors
- Glue/tape
How to make these TP roll Halloween bats
Take the toilet roll and cover it in the chosen colour of paint before popping it aside to dry.
Cut out two triangle ears and glue a slightly smaller triangle onto each one to make the inner ears. Once the tp roll is dry attach the ears inside one end of the roll.
Cut out two white circle eyes and then glue a circle pupil onto each one. Glue the eyes on to the front of the bat then finish the face by adding a mouth and two pointy triangle fangs.
Next, Cut out the shape of the bat's wings and stick them onto the back of the toilet roll bat.
Finally, Take the pipe cleaners and twist three loops in one end of each to make the feet. Stick the other end of the pipe cleaner leg down in place inside the bottom end of the toilet roll. Once dry your bat is ready to display!
