Bat Activities for the Preschool Classroom

October is the perfect time to introduce a little bat fun into your preschool classroom! Whether you’re teaching about nocturnal animals, getting ready for Halloween, or simply adding a touch of mystery to your lessons, your students will love these bat-themed activities.

Let’s learn about bats!

Bat facts and pictures for the preschool classroom.

Use these bat cards during circle or group time to learn fun facts about bats. Your students will love learning about these fascinating and unique mammals.

Art Activities

Bat Windsocks

Dip bat-shaped cookie cutters into black paint and stamp onto white or orange paper. If you do not have a bat-shaped cookie cutter, you can cut a sponge into a bat shape. This activity is quick and helps children practice hand-eye coordination and pattern making. Add black or colored streamers, tape the artwork into a tube, and add a string to hang them.

Bat Egg Carton Craft

Paint the egg cartons black, add googly eyes, and a string to make these fun hanging bats. This is such a fun Halloween decoration for your classroom!

Bat Handprint Art

Purple handprint bat on black construction paper with googly eyes.

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 cardstock or color in with markers.

Bat Scissor Strips

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 number cards.

Bats hanging upside down number order preschool activity for your classroom

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!

Batty 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.

This might be my students’ favorite poem of the year. Here is a poster for your classroom and a coloring page for your students to color.

Bat Fine Motor Activities

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

Bat Rings - Practical Life Shelf fine motor preschool activity

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

Bat Craft

To make this bat craft, cut a cave out of a black solo cup or make a cave out of construction paper and add a cut at the top for a popsicle stick. Have your students color the sleeping bat. Take the popsicle stick and poke it through the cup. Tape or glue the sleeping bat to the popsicle stick and add the “Bats sleep upside down.” to the top.

Bat Rhyming Activities

These bat-themed rhyming activities are engaging, hands-on, and perfect for building phonemic awareness in young learners. Rhyming helps children recognize sound patterns, which strengthens their early reading and spelling skills. You can find this activity in my TPT store here.

October brings a little spooky fun to the preschool classroom — and bats make the perfect theme! These simple crafts and hands-on learning ideas are great for teaching about nocturnal animals, fine motor skills, and creativity.