Bat Learning Activitites

September 15, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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.

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Printable Letter Books for Preschoolers

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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