Bat Activities for the Preschool Classroom

 There are so many fun and exciting bat activities to do in the preschool classroom! Your students will love to learn about these flying mammals and all of their interesting facts!

Let’s learn about bats!

Use these bat cards during circle or group time to learn fun facts about bats.  Bats are unique and interesting animals.

Art Activity

Make these fun handprint bats with purple paint on black paper. Have your students add googly eyes and teeth. Show them how to draw stars on black paper with a white pencil or crayon.

Pocket chart activity

  Practice sight words and color words with this pocket chart activity. Match up colors and work on moving your pointer from left to right. Download the bats here and print on colored card stock or color in with markers. Two printing options are available.

Bat scissor strips for the preschool classroom

Practice cutting with these bat scissor strips. For an added activity glue them to the letter b! Download the scissor strips and the ‘b’ template here!

Bat number activity

Grab some fun bat erasers or use another counter manipulative with these bat numbercards.

Print and laminate the bats, cut them out, and add a magnet to the back of them. Hang the bats on a whiteboard. Have your students put them in number order. Download the bats here!

Bat poem

Our poem this week was by Shel Silverstein.  We used our Montessori metal inset shapes to make the bat. You can also download the template here.

Bat fine motor activities in the preschool classroom

Add a bat stencil to your art shelf. I have had this one for years, but here is another option on Amazon.

Use golf tees, a piece of styrofoam, and some bat rings for a fun fine motor bat activity.