Halloween has arrived! Are you ready to rock the night with your scary costume? Don’t forget to welcome your guest with some decoration surprises for your guest. Besides getting yours from the store, making your own decoration sounds not that bad to try. Especially when you can take this time together to make a creative activity with your kids or for your students in the classroom.
How about making something new like lanterns? Check out this Halloween Bat Paper Lanterns Kid Craft tutorial for your decor idea. Simple and easy craft!
Materials and tools you need:
To begin with, start by repeating folding black color paper back and forth until you get a rectangle shape. To make it easier on the next step, press when you fold to get a line to follow with.
After that, unfold and fold back in the middle of the paper. Make sure each edge meets so you’ll get a precise shape.
Carefully cut the line folds using a cutter or cutter pen and ruler. Make a cut in the middle as seen in the preview.
Next step is making a lantern shape. Roll up the paper and get each edge glue together. Then stretched out the paper like a lantern. Stretch gently to prevent it getting teared.
On yellow color paper, draw eye patterns for the bat lantern. Make the eye by drawing two half-circle shapes or any kind of eyes you think will suit your paper lantern. For some tips and tricks, try making the pattern on a folded paper so later when it gets cut, you get both eye patterns at the same time!
Cut the pattern you have drawn earlier carefully with a scissor.
Draw an eyeball in the middle of each of the eye patterns you cut earlier.
Make a bat ears pattern on the black color paper. Then cut them carefully.
Glue each of the bat ears using All Purpose Glue.
The bat is not finished when there are no fangs for him. Draw them on a piece of white paper.
Glue the fangs at the bottom part of the paper lantern.
Draw the wings on a black color paper. Measure the size to fit the size width and length of your paper lantern. Then cut it.
A lantern needs a handle so you can hang or bring it along. Draw a rectangle shape on black color paper. Then bend or fold the paper before you glue it to each side on the paper lantern.
Look at this cool paper lantern! You just unlock new craft skills! Bring and show them along while going out for a Halloween party so you might get more treats this year.