Coffee Filter Watercolor Bat Craft
If you’re looking for a great way to get crafty this Halloween season, then our Coffee Filter Watercolor Bat Craft is the perfect craft for you! There’s watercolors with washable markers and acrylic paint with craft sticks. There’s just so much fun in one vibrant Halloween bat craft!
Us and bats, we have history. Like the time a bat found its way into our upstairs, and then just disappeared. Literally disappeared. I read bats are smart, so we all just assumed he found his way out the same way he came in. However that was. I still have no idea. I’m much more confident in how super cute this bat craft is, that’s for sure.
Watercolor Coffee Filter Bat Craft
To make our watercolor bat craft you will need coffee filters, regular wooden craft sticks, washable markers, a spray bottle of water, black acrylic paint, a white paint pen, small googly eyes, scrap pieces of cardstock, scissors, and a glue stick.
Watercolor Bat Craft Supplies Needed
- Coffee filters
- Craft sticks
- Washable markers
- Black acrylic paint
- Spray bottle of water
- Scrap cardstock
- Googly eyes, small
- Scissors
- Glue stick
Coffee Filter Watercolor Bat Craft Step by Step Directions
Start by gathering a coffee filter and washable markers.
We like to use lots of blue, green, some purple, and black, with a touch of the other colors mixed in.
Make sure to place the coffee filter on a protected surface, as it will get wet. Then, color the coffee filter in whatever design you choose with washable markers.
Once the coffee filter is colored, give it just a couple sprays of water.
Let the coffee filter dry completely.
While the coffee filter is drying, place five craft sticks together. Position the two sticks on the end higher than the middle three. Cut a scrap piece of cardstock to fit the width of all the craft sticks, and use this to glue the craft sticks together.
Now, paint the craft sticks black. Let this dry while the coffee filters continue to dry.
When everything is dry, add googly eyes to the craft sticks. Use a white paint pen to draw a W for the fangs.
Next, take one of the coffee filters and fold in half. Fold in half again. Then, cut a jagged line just along the bottom edge of the coffee filter.
Finally, unfold once, leaving the coffee filter folded in half, and glue the craft stick body to the middle of the coffee filter to complete your bat-tastic Halloween bat craft!
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More Bat Crafts for Kids
Looking for more fun bat crafts for kids? Check out our Spoon Bat Craft, Clothespin Bat Craft, Paper Plate Bat Craft, and our Bottle Cap Bat Craft to name just a few of our many Halloween crafts for kids at Our Kid Things!
Coffee Filter Watercolor Bat Craft
This fun bat craft is made with craft sticks and washable marker watercolors on a coffee filter
Materials
- Coffee filters
- Craft sticks
- Washable markers
- Black acrylic paint
- Spray bottle of water
- Scrap cardstock
- Googly eyes, small
- Scissors
- Glue stick
Instructions
- Start by gathering a coffee filter and washable markers. We like to use lots of blue, green, some purple, and black, with a touch of the other colors mixed in.
- Make sure to place the coffee filter on a protected surface, as it will get wet. Then, color the coffee filter in whatever design you choose with washable markers.
- Once the coffee filter is colored, give it just a couple sprays of water.
- Let the coffee filter dry completely.
- While the coffee filter is drying, place five craft sticks together. Position the two sticks on the end higher than the middle three.
- Cut a scrap piece of cardstock to fit the width of all the craft sticks, and use this to glue the craft sticks together.
- Now, paint the craft sticks black. Let this dry while the coffee filters continue to dry.
- When everything is dry, add googly eyes to the craft sticks.
- Use a white paint pen to draw a W for the fangs.
- Next, take one of the coffee filters and fold in half. Fold in half again. Then, cut a jagged line just along the bottom edge of the coffee filter.
- Finally, unfold the coffee filter once, leaving the coffee filter folded in half, and glue the craft stick body to the middle of the coffee filter to complete your bat-tastic Halloween bat craft!