How to craft egg-carton bats for Halloween

This simple Halloween craft project is one the kids are sure to enjoy & requires no fancy materials so you’ll love it too, I mean…egg carton bats?! What’s not to love?

My plan this Autumn is to share a few easy and cheap ideas to help with your seasonal home styling to save you trawling the internet looking for inspiration. You might have already seen my super simple ‘Painted leaf ghosts’, Halloween craft project if not you can read it here. as well as my faux and foraged Autumn mantle which is available here…

Egg carton bats

Egg carton bats were a really fun one I did last year with my youngest. You could really go to town embellishing the bats if you were feeling creative or you can stick to the very simple steps that I’m going to show you below…

You will need

Egg cartons

Black paint

Scissors

Needle (if you have one if not use the end of the scissors)

Thread (this one is good that I bought from Amazon as it’s clear)

Step 1: Cut the egg boxes

Cut the egg boxes with scissors into strips of three egg sections, cutting off the longer pieces as shown below…

Step 2: Paint

Once you’ve cut the egg cartons up, paint them with black paint. Any paint will do, you could use chalkboard paint if you have it or acrylic craft paint it really doesn’t matter.

Step 3: Thread up your bats

Once painted, allow to dry and using a needle or other sharp object, like the end of the scissors, make small holes to allow the thread through.

Step 4: Style up a storm

Once your painted egg-box bats are complete, you can hang them wherever you like. I created a spooky Halloween table display using dried leaves, greenery from the garden, twigs, faux pumpkins and fairy lights. If you don’t have a huge selection of foliage available in your garden or you don’t have a garden) then pop over to my foraging page here to read my top tips on how to forage flowers and foliage for home styling.

You can watch the reel I shared on my Instagram.

I hope this was helpful.

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