Bat Learning Activitites

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.

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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