Here’s a fun way to add some interest to your seasonal reading – a bat corner bookmark craft! Perfect for Bat Appreciation Day or Halloween!

Nature is amazing, isn’t it? On one hand, you have feathered creatures that can’t fly – like the ostrich or kiwi, and on the other hand, you have a mammal that can – the bat!

In fact, bats are the only mammals with the ability to fly, and among the few animals that can sleep upside down. In fact, there are many other amazing things bats do, which is why we have an entire month to appreciate bats. Yes, October is Bat Appreciation Month!

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Why should we appreciate bats?

Bats are generally associated with not-so-nice things like vampires and diseases, but the truth is that they’re integral to our ecosystem. Bats pollinate fruit trees and eat up pests that destroy crops. They’re the natural alternative to chemical pesticides!

Unfortunately, many bat species are at risk of extinction due to various reasons, like hunting, disease and habitat destruction. So let’s use this month to spread awareness about these creatures using the power of social media.

Use hashtags #BatAppreciationMonth or #batweekallmonth to share pictures of your bat costumes, bat decorations and of course, bat crafts – like today’s bat corner bookmark craft!

Easy Bat Corner Bookmark Craft for Kids

Supplies required:

Colored cardstock papers
Plain white paper
Pencil
A pair of scissors
Craft glue
Sharpies

How to make the bat corner bookmark craft:

1. Download and print the Bat Corner Bookmark Craft Template. The template contains parts of the bat, like head, ears, wings, eyes, mouth and fangs. You’ll find two sets of ears and wings each, one large and one small.

2. Trace the parts of the template on craft papers of the appropriate colors and cut them out. We’ve chosen grey for the bat, and purple for the inner wing pieces. The problem with choosing black for the bat is that the bat’s eyes won’t stand out from the rest of it. Hence, grey!

3. Let’s start the bat corner bookmark craft by sticking the inner ears inside the outer ears. Take out your black Sharpie and shade in the bat’s eyes.

4. Take your bat’s head and place it so that the pointy end faces down and the curved edge faces up. Now attach the ears on the top curved edge, applying glue on the back of the bat’s head.

5. Glue the bat’s eyes in the middle of its head. Stick the fangs along the upper edge of the mouth and stick the completed mouth under the eyes.

6. Time to give your bat corner bookmark craft some wings! Stick the inner wings inside the outer wing cutouts.

7. Apply glue on the inner edge of the wing and stick it to the back of the bat’s head.

8. Repeat with the second wing – now your bat looks like one!

9. Put aside the bat and let’s move on to the ‘bookmark’ part of our bat corner bookmark craft! Take a square piece of paper, about 4″ wide.

10. Fold the square in half diagonally, so you get a triangle.

11. Fold the left and right corners of the triangle upward so they join the triangle’s third corner.

12. Unfold the folds made in the previous step. You now have two creases that have created two little triangles next to each other, and a square above them.

13. Fold down the top corner of the square, so you have a triangular flap that points downward.

14. Take the right corner of the right triangle from Step 12 and fold it up, tucking the corner inside the fold from the previous step.

15. Repeat the previous step on the left side. Now you have a nice little square with a pocket inside!

16. Time to put everything together! Bring back your bat and stick it on the outside of the little pocket.

Your bat corner bookmark craft is now complete! To use it as a bookmark, slide the bottom corner of your page into the pocket of the corner bookmark, and your bat will do the rest!

Isn’t it interesting how this bat corner bookmark craft fits into the bottom corner of the page instead of the top corner? Much like how a bat sleeps upside down!

If you would like to try out more bat crafts, check out these projects: