I'm always happy to discover new uses for egg cartons! They're such a versatile craft material and we have SO many of them constantly piling up in our cardboard cupboard. So for our next Halloween themed craft we made some cute hanging egg carton bats!
For this you will need...
Egg carton
Scissors
Black paint
Paintbrush
Black paper
Google eyes
PVA glue
Black string/wool/ribbon
Plastic beads
The 'How To'...
Use scissors or cut the egg carton into two lots of three egg cups. Trim the excess and cut fang shapes into the middle cup in each bat.
Paint the bats with black paint until completely covered, then leave to dry.
Cut two sets of bat ears from black paper and use PVA glue to attach each pair of ears to the top of the bats head.
Glue the google eyes in place, then leave to dry again.
Finally use scissors or a skewer to punch a hole in the top of the bats head behind the ears. Then thread a length of string, wool, or ribbon through the hole and secure by tying the inside end around a plastic bead.
The finished bats look scary in a delightfully cute way! Bean was ecstatic with her "Bouncy Bats" (the name she came up with for them), and although I had originally intended them as decorations for the kitchen it wasn't until the following day that she allowed me to hang them up!
She had great fun flying them around, telling stories, and playing scary chasey games...definitely a success!
She had great fun flying them around, telling stories, and playing scary chasey games...definitely a success!
Happy Playing! :-)
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