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We often think of bats as creepy creatures that we only consider during Halloween, but bats are such cool creatures that they deserve our respect and taking time to learn more about them. 

If you need help with facts about bats to get you started, check out the free with email printable fact sheets and parts of a bat coloring booklet from Willa Bean and Co.

Learn about different kinds of bats and label the bats and the parts of the bat with these printables from Living Life and Learning. These are free when you share your email. Only Passionate Curiosity has bat printable worksheets that include anatomy, life cycle and journaling pages for bat facts and learning about different kinds of bats. 

Homeschool of 1 also has cute printables showing different kinds of bats that kids can label. 

I love these activities from Inspirational Laboratories where they have actual size photos for kids to measure and photos with items taped to them to represent the actual weight of the bat. Check out the post for the weights they used and more fun ideas. 

If you want to go all in on bat learning, A Dab of Glue Will Do has a great paid printable pack for bats including life cycle, facts, bats can-have-are pages, sorting animals that are nocturnal or diurnal, bats vs. birds and more. 

For less literal bat learning, practice tracing lines with these worksheets from Living Life and Learning. 

And of course we can’t resist some bat crafts, so why not make a hanging bat with a little help from the printable bat wing template and instructions from Buggy and Buddy. These are so cute and easy to make. If you want something with more of a spooky Halloween twist, try the moon and bats salt painting idea shared by My PreK Box. 

Have you read?

Book Review: The Festival of Lights

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations. 

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day. 

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.  

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita. 

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live. 

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience. 

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

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