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    9+ Free Printable Bat Silhouettes

    Published: Aug 9, 2024

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    These free printable Halloween bat silhouettes are a fun and easy Halloween craft. These bat templates are ideal for classroom use, at home, or even with library activities.

    Pick from 11 different sizes and styles to find the paper bats that are perfect for your Halloween craft projects!

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    This post includes affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission on purchases made through links at no additional cost to you.

    These bat templates are great for a bat unit study at any time of the year. Children love learning about bats, especially once they discover that they're pollinators for a lot of favorite crops like avocados, mangos, and peaches.

    These free printable bat templates are the perfect craft to accompany reading popular books like Stellaluna or Bats by Gail Gibbons. with your little learners.

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    Suggested craft supplies for bat crafts

    You don't need much to make a simple craft with these free bat printables.

    • Your bat template printables (a download link is located below each preview image).
    • Printer access and letter size paper or card stock.
    • Scissors
    • Markers, paint, chalk, a glue stick, or whatever else is needed for your particular craft idea.

    If you're going to print a template and then trace it, it's best to print on card stock. I recommend heavyweight white cardstock. 

    If you want to make black construction paper bats, it's usually easier to trace the shape onto the construction paper than send construction paper through your printer.

    You can also save yourself a lot of tracing by getting "regular" printer paper that's black instead of white. Make sure to get letter sized paper so it matches the size of the PDF file. 

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    • Size: Standard Letter (8.5 x 11 inches) | Ideal for newsletters, brochures, invitations, announcements, flyers, forms, and more.
    • Quantity: 50 per pack | Plenty of paper for a big project, or to last a long time.
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    Printable bat outline templates

    There are several styles and shapes, including an extra large 10" bat template.

    These bat silhouettes are available free for non-commercial use, including personal use, classroom use, and use with library activities. 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 refer friends and colleagues to this post so they can download their own copy. Selling the files or print outs is prohibited.

    The images are just low resolution previews. Please use the download links to get the PDFs from Dropbox. The files should start to download automatically, but you may need to authorize downloads from Dropbox if asked for permission.

    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 silhouettes PDF file download area.

    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 bat templates

    10" bat-template

    10" black flying bat

    10" bat-outline

    10" bat outline

    10" bat-with-eyes

    10" bat with eyes

    Halloween bat silhouette craft ideas

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

    • Use the blank pages as a simple bat coloring page.
    • Have you child or students cut the bats out for fine motor and scissor skill practice
    • Have your your little kid embellish them with fun things like googly eyes and pompoms.
    • Cut out the filled in bat templates and use them do decorate a no carve pumpkin, a wreath, or your mantle.
    • Use a bat as a template for a thumbprint painting.
    • Decorate for a home or classroom Halloween party.
    • Make a bat stencil for chalk art or other projects.
    • Trace around a bat to use it instead of a cookie cutter for bat shape 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.
    • Use popsicle sticks to make bat puppets.
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    I hope you enjoy these printable bat craft templates! Make sure to look below for even more free printables for Halloween.

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