The Ultimate Bat Halloween Party!

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 🙂

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Mini Chocolate Bat Bites

Author: Chelsea

Ingredients

• Miniature Reeses Cups
• Thin Oreo Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
• Pre-made cream cheese frosting or homemade
• Edible eyes

Instructions

1. Remove the wrappers from the Reeses cups.
2. 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!)
3. 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.
4. Press one cookie piece on the left of the Reeses cup and another cookie piece on the right of the Reeses cup.
5. Pipe frosting on the back of the edible eyes and secure on top of the center of the Reeses cup.
6. 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:

• Easy Mummy Cookies
• Healthy Halloween Snack
• Homemade Halloween Marshmallows
• Cookie Cup Ghosts