Bat Mobile

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We've gone batty! This easy-to-make Bat Mobile will guarantee a spooktacularly fun Halloween for you and your kids.

Materials

String
Coat hanger (the type from a dry cleaner, with a cardboard sleeve on the bottom, works best)
Hot-glue gun
Fiberfill

Instructions

Here are the templates for the different bats, which will print in color. To download in black and white, see Step 2.
Mad Bat in color

Howling Bat in color

Sad Bat in color

Moon (only in black and white)
Or, download the templates in black and white that the kids can color in themselves with markers or crayons.

Mad Bat in black and white

Howling Bat in black and white

Sad Bat in black and white

Moon

Tip: Paint each bat's eyes, and all of the moon, with glow-in-the-dark paint.
Next, carefully cut out your bats and moon. Match the back and front of each bat and glue them together, sandwiching a piece of string in between. Then glue together the moon halves (no string is necessary).
Now it's time to put it all together. Lay out the bats on a table with the coat hanger. (If your hanger doesn't have a cardboard sleeve, you can easily fashion one with construction paper and glue.) Play around with the lengths of the bats' strings until you like the bats' positions (and they're properly balanced), and then tie them to the hanger.
Finally, hot-glue the fiberfill cloud to the hanger and the moon to the cloud. Hang it up in a dark hallway and wait for the squeals to begin!