I plan on hanging them from the vinyl siding on my front porch area. I'll do a tutorial on that tomorrow - as it is too late for me to be dragging a chair outside to get them hung up.
Here's what you'll need to make some of your own:
1/2 yard of black felt - get the cheap kind, not the wool.
Scissors
Optional: Glitter and glue - for the eyes and wings
First, you're going to have to snoop around the internet looking for pictures of bats that you like. Here's the ones I found:
Coloring Pages for Kids: Upside down bat
Cksinfo.com: Bat clip art
Bats.org: Flying bat
Martha Stewart: Bat image
Firefly Forest: Bats at hummingbird feeders - these pictures are especially amazing!
You can either print them and use as your template or you could just trace them on your computer screen like I did - just pull up the image and hold a piece of paper on your monitor and trace around the image.
If you want to enlarge them, just trace around your image about a centimeter away from your original drawing. FYI: The smaller bats don't work out so well unless they're long wing-wise.
Anyways, cut your templates out.
Lay them on top of your black felt, pin, and cut around the template.
Take your bat and put two dots of glue for their eyes. Then sprinkle some glitter on the dots. Ta-da! Now you've got eyes. Do the same for the wings.
Shake off the excess glitter - which is hard since it likes to stick to the felt. And then, you've got a finished bat!
For tomorrow, I'll talk about putting them outside. For now, I think it's bedtime. Yeah. Bedtime.
Missy Moo seems to like the bats. She just told me that I need to make bat pie the next time I make pie. I'm not sure what that is, but perhaps I can sprinkle some cinnamon in the shape of a bat? I think that'd be cute! Goodnight!
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