3 Super Simple DIY Bat Halloween Decorations to throw the ultimate “bat” Halloween party!
You were all warned about my Halloween obsession 🙂 And so it continues! I am SO excited to share this post because it was an absolute blast to put together. Plus, it’s a little different than my typical post which includes a single recipe. Today I’m sharing 3 super simple and festive Halloween “BAT” ideas.
First up, these Bite-Sized Bat Treats. Only 4 ingredients are needed and the assembly takes mere minutes! They are so cute and such a festive treat to make this Halloween! Last year I made some healthy bat treats which inspired these ones. Both are so quick to make and make a quite creepy animal look so much, well, less creepy 🙂
- Miniature Reeses Cups
- Thin Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
- Pre-made cream cheese frosting or homemade
- Edible eyes
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Remove the wrappers from the Reeses cups.
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Break the cookies in half and then separate all of the pieces from one another so you now have four "bat wings". Scrape off the frosting and discard (or eat!)
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Fill up a plastic bag with the store bought or homemade frosting. Cut off the tip of the bag and pipe frosting onto the back corners of the broken cookie pieces.
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Press one cookie piece on the left of the Reeses cup and another cookie piece on the right of the Reeses cup.
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Pipe frosting on the back of the edible eyes and secure on top of the center of the Reeses cup.
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Enjoy!
Next up, a “Bat Pumpkin.”
My 2-year old went nuts over this project. He manned the Cricut machine and cut out every single bat you see here. He loved pressing the buttons! After cutting out about 10-15 bats, he didn’t need any help knowing what to press to continue cutting them out. If you don’t have a cricut, these bats can be hand-cut out using these templates (<–click to get to a pre-made template). But if you do have a cricut or similar machine, it will go a bit faster.
Supplies:
- Bat cricut cut-out or template (link above) + scissors
- Black construction paper
- Miniature clothespins, optional
- Varying sized googly eyeballs (<–I bought a mega-pack that had 5 different sizes for about 5-6$)
- Hot Glue Gun + Glue
- Large Pumpkin
To Assemble:
Cut out lots of black bats in varying sizes. If you use the templates and scissors to cut out your bats, you may have to google search a few more templates to get all the different sizes that you want.
Once the bats are cut out, hot glue on the eyeballs. Then use the hot glue gun to attach the bats to the pumpkin. (I did the larger bats on one side of the pumpkin and the size of the bats decreased across the width of the pumpkin.) The miniature clothespins can be hot glued to the back of some of the bats to give different “heights” to the bats. This is optional, but gives the pumpkin a little bit more dimension. 
So cute right?! And seriously easy to do!
Okay and finally we are to the third Bat decoration for your ultimate Bat Halloween party: A DIY Creepy Bat Tree.
Supplies:
- Wooden bucket or vase or pot
- Styrofoam block
- Branches (you can find branches at a craft store; I just found the ones I used outside)
- Brown packing paper or newspaper
- Brown moss
- Black construction pape
- Varying sized googly eyeballs (<–I bought a mega-pack that had 5 different sizes for about 5-6$)
- Miniature Clothespins
- Hot glue gun + glue sticks
To Assemble:
Using the black construction paper and a cricut, cut out lots of black bats in varying sizes. If you use templates and scissors to cut out your bats, you may have to google search a few more templates to get all the different sizes that you want. Hot glue on eyeballs on the bats.
Cut the foam block to fit inside your vase or pot and hot glue to the bottom. Insert your branches into the foam block. Pack everything in with brown packing paper (or newspaper). Hot glue gun the moss to the paper.
Hot glue the bats to the branches. To get some of the bats to go a certain way you may need to use the clothespins. Hot glue the clothespins to the back of the bats and then attach to the branches.
Put the three of these bat decorations together with some bowls of candy and you have an awesome bat-decorated Halloween table! 🙂
More fun Halloween ideas:
Danielle Delightful Mom Food says
October 5, 2015 at 6:51 pmChelsea, these are all so cute! Funny, I was just on Foodgawker and saw the picture of the Oreo bat wings and instantly knew it was your photo before looking at who posted! Gorgeous and fun!
chelseamessyapron says
October 5, 2015 at 10:27 pmYou are so sweet!! Thank you Danielle!!
Thaila @ butter and brioche says
October 5, 2015 at 11:09 pmI am obsessed with these bat chocolate bites. Though we don’t really celebrate Halloween here in Australia – I have to make them!!
Beverly says
October 6, 2015 at 5:07 pmThese Halloween ideas are so adorable. I think the bats made with peanut butter cups and Oreos are my favorite.
Bev
chelseamessyapron says
October 8, 2015 at 3:31 pmYou are so sweet, thank you! 🙂
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says
October 14, 2015 at 10:16 amSO MUCH CUTE!!
chelseamessyapron says
October 14, 2015 at 11:36 amThank you Kayle! 🙂 xox
Merlaine Waldron says
October 15, 2015 at 1:27 pmcute ideas! Where wOld I find edible eyes?
chelseamessyapron says
October 15, 2015 at 5:24 pmThank you!!! I have bought edible eyes from craft stores (hobby lobby) and also from Walmart on their baking aisle by the sprinkles ☺️
Pauline Goodreau says
October 24, 2015 at 2:50 pmTook these bats to our harvest supper last night. Made a big hit.
chelseamessyapron says
October 24, 2015 at 9:24 pmOh that is so great to hear!! Thanks so much for coming and leaving a comment Pauline! 🙂
Luxe Calendar says
January 17, 2019 at 7:05 amThese Halloween ideas are so adorable. I think the bats made with peanut butter cups and Oreos are my favorite.
Susie says
August 31, 2016 at 2:56 amHere is my problem….. I would love to have my grand daughter help make the Bats made with the peanut butter cups. But they can’t be used because of possible peanut allergies…. any suggestions for a substitute?
chelseamessyapron says
August 31, 2016 at 8:25 amYou can make your own “peanut butter cup” base and instead of putting in peanut butter you could use something like cookie butter. Here’s a recipe if you want to try that out: https://www.chelseasmessyapron.com/cookie-butter-crunch-cups/ Enjoy!
Shanna Sorenson says
September 20, 2016 at 5:37 pmThese look yummy and cute!
chelseamessyapron says
September 21, 2016 at 12:57 pmThank you so much! 🙂
Cindy deRosier says
October 20, 2016 at 2:28 pmI’m the Editor of Fun Family Crafts and wanted to let you know that we have featured your yummy bat treat! You can see it here:
http://funfamilycrafts.com/mini-bat-treats/
If you have other kid-friendly craft tutorials, we’d love for you to submit them. If you would like to display a featured button on your site, you can get one from the right side bar of your post above. Thanks for a cool idea!
chelseamessyapron says
October 22, 2016 at 10:19 pmThank you so much Cindy! 🙂
Katie says
November 6, 2017 at 9:41 pm4 start only because the cookies were slightly difficult to cut. I wanted the wings slightly smaller than the instructions say, which is to cut them in half. My husband ended up cutting/sawing out a little in the middle. I also used left over melted white chocolate, from chocolate covered strawberries, to “glue” the wings and eyes on my bats. Would totally make them again! Huge hit for church refreshments!! Thank you for the super cute idea!! ???
chelseamessyapron says
November 18, 2017 at 10:29 amYou’re welcome! 🙂
Sia | Pocketoutdoor says
January 23, 2019 at 3:30 amThe mini bat treats are amazing. I made these last year but cut the biscuits using knife. They did not look as appealing as yours. Seems like imperfection is what makes it perfect.
chelseamessyapron says
January 28, 2019 at 5:40 pmHahaha I couldn’t agree more! I’m so glad you enjoyed! Thanks! 🙂
Samy Singh says
February 19, 2019 at 3:15 amsuch creative ideas, loved Mini Chocolate Bat Bites, thanks for sharing.
Memorial Day Pics says
May 21, 2019 at 8:42 amThanks for sharing this information!
chelseamessyapron says
May 21, 2019 at 9:45 amYou’re so welcome! 🙂
Radhika says
June 25, 2019 at 2:50 amHelloween is the most important event in my life.
Payal says
June 25, 2019 at 2:54 amThanks for sharing this information.
Chelsea Lords says
June 25, 2019 at 8:55 amYou’re so welcome! 🙂
August Calendar says
July 11, 2019 at 7:40 amNice Article.
Olivia Mendenhall says
July 15, 2019 at 9:27 amThanks so much! 🙂
Dulci Josh says
July 19, 2019 at 11:46 pmAwesome article. thanks for sharing.
Chelsea Lords says
July 22, 2019 at 9:49 amThanks!