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Free Bat Felt Hand Puppet Pattern

Create an adorable bat hand puppet for Halloween this year. Mix up the yarn color accents to create your own camp of bats.

The puppet is very simple to make – just cut felt and glue together. You could hand sew it too, if you wanted.

What you’ll need:
Bat Puppet Pattern PDF
• 2 black felt sheets
• 1 white felt sheet or scraps
• 1 dark pink felt sheet or scraps
• White yarn
• Blue, orange or purple yarn
• Crayons
• Glue (Hot glue, Fabric Tac or any glue that works with felt)
• Scissors
• Pins

How to Make the Bat Felt Hand Puppet:
p1blog Trace the body pattern on top black felt sheet with crayon.

p2blog Pin the top black felt sheet to bottom black felt sheet so they stay together when you cut.

p3blog Cut the felt along the traced body line.

p4blog Glue the two layers of felt together around the edge keeping the bottom open for your hand.

batblog1 Cut out all the felt and yarn features.

batblog2 Glue the ears, eyes, mouth and teeth.

batblog3 Glue the nose, pupils and wings.

batblog4 Glue the yarn accents and gleams.