Fall Fun - Flying Bat

Thank you to our Pumpkins - Mrs Collins and Mrs Pipino, Mr Pitts for the display and everyone who made this happen

More Crafty fun below.....


  • IF you grabbed at kit great

  • otherwise you will need a wooden clothes pin, markers and some glue

  • Print out the plan and create this beautiful flying bat.

If you did our butterfly Craft-a-Long its very similar.

If you didn't, and you have a few more clothes pins, check it out here


Step by Step

We are using the movement in the Clothes pin to create a moving, flying BAT!!



We are actually creating another simple machine - A lever


  1. Color your bat

  2. Cut it out carefully and the small rectangle below it

  3. Fold the wings into the body along the dashed lines


4. Glue the rectangle to the end of the peg

5. Turn the peg over and bend the dashed ends of the strip of paper as shown



6. Glue the body of the Bat to the top of the peg. It should over shoot the peg and the bent rectangular strip should meet the middle of the wings

7. Pull the wings up together. Where the strip of paper meets the wings glue the tabs.


Wait for the glue to dry and then open and close the clothes peg


This is what it should look like from underneath I have used the butterfly image from one of our last craft-a-longs

This is where you should glue the tabs onto the wings

More Crafts are coming your way soon, keep your eye out and we will have more ways to collect craft-a-long packets and more in store to help you through this special year.


If you didn't collect all our Summer Craft-a-longs please visit the Craft-a-long section on the site and if you have any ideas for future activities please contact changoartsined@gmail.com or join us for one of our virtual PTA meetings