Bat Crafts and Learning Activities

Bring a bit of Halloween fun into the classroom or your learning activities at home by learning about bats and making bat crafts.

We’ve probably all read the book Stellaluna, right? Make your own hanging bats with clothespins and basic supplies you probably already have at home with this tutorial from BabyCenter.

Surviving a Teacher’s Salary has a great little printable ebook on how a bat grows.

Want to learn how to draw a bat? Check out the step by step from the Noon Show.

Use this upside down bat writing and coloring page to write bat facts or a story about bats. This one is from AZ Coloring.

And Miss Giraffe’s Class has a set of writing prompt printables for fall that includes bats as well as a haunted house, magic potion, spiders, cats, frogs, witches and trick or treating (among others). These are sure to get kids writing!

Do you have any bat-related activities you love to do with kids? I’d love to hear about them!

Check out more fall fun with these roundups:

Halloween Themed Printables for Kids

Pumpkin Learning Activities

Fall Learning Activities

Apple Learning Activities

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I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

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