Happy Halloween bats!!!

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So I made some felt bat pins for Mazzy's Halloween party at school to put on her treat bags and thought I would do a tutorial so anyone who wanted to could make some........

Materials needed:

felt (I used red and black)
scissors
glue gun (tacky glue could work too if you want this to be a total kid project)
safety pins for pins or barrettes for hair clippies
white paint and paintbrush or googly eyes (I didn't have any)


first you have to cut out the bats out of the black felt I provided a pattern but if you draw better than me lol then you can whip up your own
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so now you have an army of bats....(I wonder if these little guys can be called an army of darkness?)

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then you cut out your bows I cut strips about 1/2 to 1 inch I don't usually measure

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you tie a small knot in the end
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then you cut it as even with the other end as you can I usually eyeball this

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you cut as many bows as there are bats
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then you hot glue the bows to the bats
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see now they all have little bowties
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then you hot glue the barrette or safety pin to the back
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at this point once the glue has cooled or dried whichever the case may be you will give it eyes I usually paint little white dots for the eyes but you can use googly eyes just glue them on

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I hope you enjoy your new army of darkness lol