DIY Bat Hanging Branch – A Super Simple Halloween Decoration

Halloween is budgeted! Are you fix? This tutorial is for a very elementary, kid-friendly DIY Halloween decoration called a bat branch. Y'all may have heard of bat copse, where branches are decorated with hanging bats a la Christmas tree ornament style? This is similar merely simply different enough to make your décor unique. It will accept well-nigh 20 minutes to make, which sometimes is just what the DIY md ordered. Allow's do it.

DIY Level: Beginner/Kids

Materials Needed:

2 (2) pieces of black cardstock
Scissors
Angling line
A co-operative/stick/wooden dowel
Ii (2) pocket-size screw hooks

Begin by cartoon or printing out some bat silhouettes. You can just google "bat outline" or something similar to find the silhouette you like best.

Cut out the bat.

Make sure it's the silhouette you similar. If it is, cut out the rest of them. This example got iv bats per page of cardstock.

Cutting out equally many bats as yous desire or have infinite for. This example uses 8 bat cut-outs.

Utilize the very tip of your scissors to create a tiny hole, only large enough for the fishing line to thread through, in the center of your bat head. (Note: Alternatively, you could use a pigsty punch for this, but the bat will have a large hole in its head if you practice.)

Thread the fishing line through, then tie the finish off in a loop. Accept intendance to not pull the fishing line tight against the cardstock to go on it from ripping or tearing.

DIY Bat Branch - hanging on the ceiling also

Cutting your fishing line to exist most eighteen"-24" long from where you tied it to the bat. You tin can trim this later, depending on your space.

DIY Bat Branch - Repeat the fishing line attachments

Echo the angling line attachments for the remainder of the bats.

Take hold of two spiral hooks.

DIY Bat Branch - decide where you want to hang

Make up one's mind where you desire to hang the bats. This instance will exist hanging them from a cutout section of wall virtually the front door.

Screw in your hooks into the ceiling where you desire your bat branch to hang. (Notation: Alternatively, you tin screw the hooks into a wall and hang the branch from there.)

Make sure your second screw hook placement

Make sure your 2d screw claw placement creates a width that's slightly narrower than your co-operative length.

Cutting two small-scale (8"-x") sections of line-fishing line and tie two loops, i small and one large, on the ends.

Place the pocket-size loops on your spiral hooks.

At diverse lengths, tie off loops on your bat fishing lines that are big enough to slide easily over your branch. Trim the excess line-fishing line.

Slide these bat line loops onto your branch. Don't worry nigh positioning the bats notwithstanding; you'll do that afterwards you lot hang the branch itself.