This adorable Halloween bat made from a clothespin is the perfect easy craft for the kids! These are so cute and inexpensive to make. Old clothespins can be repurposed for this craft, and turned into an adorable functional Halloween decoration with the cuteness of a bat!
These decorative Halloween balloons are another super easy decoration you can add to your home or party for the spooky season!
Halloween Bat Clothespin Craft
I love cute little crafts like this that are functional. Not only are they a perfect Halloween bat decoration, but they are also perfect for using in your home. You can put these to use easily as soon as the paint and glue dry!
It is always so much fun to add creepy and crawling decorations to the home during the Halloween season. This Halloween spider web jar is another favorite easy craft that is functional. It's ideal to add candy to and sit on your desk at work or the kitchen counter! Another fun option I love because it is functional is the spider bowl party decoration. It is cute and serves a purpose to hold things like crackers or popcorn!
Where Should I Display this Halloween Bat Clothespin?
If you are adventurous and won't scare the kids or neighbors, you can definitely use these to hold clothes on your drying line. Otherwise, I love using these to hold up notes for the kids on the walls. Just run a simple twine along the wall and secure, then use the clothespin Halloween bat to clasp a note or picture.
Another fun way to use these is to clip them to the side of a cup or onto a straw for serving your favorite Halloween party drink recipe. If you have spare craft magnets on hand, hot glue them to the back of the clothespin and add them to your refrigerator or filing cabinet to secure business cards, reminders, or pictures.
What Should I Use to Make the Bat Wings?
For this craft, I used some black cardboard I had in my craft room. I often find scrap cardboard in a variety of colors that I can cut and use for projects like this one. If you don't have any on hand, you can look for any stiff paper or fabric option.
Cardstock is perfect for this project since it is thin enough to be lightweight, but also heavy enough to not be floppy. I would avoid cloth like most cotton fabrics or felt, but using some foam board would work wonderfully.
Supplies Needed
- Wooden pegs
- Black marker or craft paint
- Black cardboard
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun and glue or craft glue
How to Make a Halloween Bat Clothespin
Gather your supplies laying out your wooden clothespins, cardstock or cardboard, markers or paint, scissors, and choice of glue. If you are using paint to coat the clothespin, make sure to layout a newspaper or a paint drop cloth to protect your work surface.
To begin, you will take apart the clothespins. Keep all pieces together, but take them apart so you can paint all edges and areas of them.
Use a black permanent marker or black craft paint to coat all sides and edges of the clothespins. Set them aside to dry.
While the clothespins are drying, you will cut out your bat wings. Using a pencil, you can draw a simple batwing shape. If you have a stencil or cookie cutter, that can be used to trace. Otherwise, you can easily freehand a bat wing with plenty of dips and points.
Cut out your wings, and set them aside.
Once your clothespin has dried completely, you will assemble them back together.
After they are assembled, you will use glue to attach the wings to one side.
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Halloween Bat Clothespin Craft
Make this cute Halloween Bat out of a clothespin to use for decoration or just to hold your clothes on the line with a spooky flair!
Materials
- Wooden pegs
- Black marker or craft paint
- Black cardboard
Tools
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Hot glue gun and glue or craft glue
Instructions
- Place all of your supplies on a work table. Cover with newspaper or a paint cloth if you will be using paint for this craft;
- Next, you will take apart your clothespins and set all pieces aside so they can be painted black on all edges;
- Using black marker or paint, color in all surfaces of the clothespin and set aside to dry;
- While the clothespins dry, you can make your bat wings;
- Using a black piece of paper or cardboard, you will trace a wing shape;
- Cut one wing out, and then use it as a template for creating enough so each clothespin has two wings;
- Set aside your wings, and check to see if the clothespins are dry;
- Once they are dry, you will reassemble them and begin the process of gluing the wings on each side;
- Once all of your bat clothespins have been created, you can display as you want around your home.
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