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Free Printable Bat Outline Templates

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These bat templates are available as plain outlines, filled in black bats, and cute bats with eyes. With several sizes to choose from, there’s a printable bat outline for all your decorating and crafting needs this Halloween season!

A friend of ours hates bats with a passion. I’d love to attract more bats at our place since they eat insects. I keep thinking about installing a bat house…maybe I’ll actually even get around to it one of these days. It’s funny how polarizing such a small creature can be!

No matter how you feel about bats in general, I hope you enjoy these free printable bat outline templates. They’re great for preschool and kindergarten crafts, easy Halloween decorations on a budget, and more.

10 printable bat templates on an orange gradient background. Some of the templates are outlines and others are filled in black bats. One has goofy googly eyes and two other bats have less silly white eyes. The bat templates range in size from 2" across to 10" across.

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If you don’t like bats and think they’re only for Halloween, I hope you read a bit more about how important bats are. Did you know that they’re pollinators for a lot of favorite crops like avocados, mangos, and peaches?

Plus bats eat mosquitoes! If that’s not a good reason to install a bat house, I don’t know what is.

Alright, enough about bats – let’s get to some bat craft ideas and the free printables!

Table of Contents

  • Halloween bat template craft ideas
  • Printable bat outline templates
  • More free Halloween printables

Halloween bat template craft ideas

There are so many things you can do with these bat outlines! Here are a few ideas to get you started:

  • Use them as stencils or templates and trace them onto construction paper for craft projects.
  • Print the blank outlines and use them as coloring pages or let your little ones embellish them with fun things like googly eyes.
  • Cut out the filled in bat templates and use them do decorate a no carve pumpkin, a wreath, or your mantle.
  • Turn them into ornaments for a Halloween tree.
  • Use a bat as a template for a thumbprint painting.
  • Trace around a bat to use it instead of a cookie cutter for bat-shaped Halloween cookies or to make salt dough ornaments.
  • Trace bats onto craft foam to make outdoor decorations for your porch or trees.
  • Use shrink film to make keychains or bag charms.
  • Make felt bats for your felt story board.

Tip: If you’re going to print a template and then trace it, it’s best to print on cardstock!

cute bat hanging up side down

Related: Free printable pumpkin templates

Printable bat outline templates

Y’all know me – I have to create all the versions of any template I decide to make! There are so many different bats to pick from!

There are several styles and shapes, including an extra large 10″ bat template. If there’s a missing size you’d like to see, please leave a comment and let me know.

As a reminder – like all free printable templates on The Artisan Life, these bats are available free for personal use and classroom use. This means with your family, in your own classroom, with your scout troop, etc.

You are not licensed to redistribute the digital file or the printables to others – please just refer folks to this post so they can download their own copy!

The images are just low resolution previews. Please use the download links to get the PDFs from Google Drive. You will not see a preview on G Drive because the files are compressed as a .zip. Download and decompress the PDF on your computer. This feature is included on Mac and available with several programs on Windows (such as WinZip). You can also unzip files online for free with Ezyzip.

Your time is valuable and limited. Save time and effort when you purchase all 11 bat templates in one handy PDF for the very low price of $1.

Free printable bat outlines & patterns

Download links are located below the applicable preview image. Each link is highlighted with a grey box to make it easier to find.

3" filled bats

3″ black bat templates

3 inch bat outlines

3″ bat outlines

4" bats

4″ black bats

4" bat-outlines

4″ bat outlines

6" filled bats

6″ flying black bats

6" bat-outline

6″ bat outlines

6" bats-with-eyes

6″ bats with eyes

7" cute-vampire-bats

7″ cute vampire bats

10" bat-template

10″ black flying bat

10" bat-outline

10″ bat outline

10" bat-with-eyes

10″ bat with eyes

It’s not too late to snag the whole set in one convenient PDF for just $1.

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text "free printable bat templates for halloween crafts & decorations" Below the text is a purple gradient with previews of 5 printable bat templates and outlines. Bats include 3" black bats. 4' black bats, 6" black bat, cute vampire bats, and 4" bat silhouettes

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  1. Kostas

    October 20, 2019 at 05:07

    Thank you!!

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  2. Rose

    September 3, 2019 at 16:00

    I’ve never been a huge fan of bats. But we have tons of them in our neighborhood, and they are neat to watch as the sun sets. Of course, I’m always in favor of fewer mosquitoes, too!

    I love bat templates for greeting cards and home decor. I’ve created a few hanging bats displays for Halloween over the years.

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    • Natasha

      September 5, 2019 at 07:23

      I wouldn’t keep a bat as a pet or anything, but as someone who currently has about 12 bug bites I’d certainly appreciate fewer mosquitos!

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