Spooky Bats Halloween Craft

I know I have said before that I am very thankful for Pinterest. I am not the craftiest of people, hence the blog title, so I seek ideas and directions on crafts to do with my kids on a regular basis. Last week I finally sat down and made a list of the Fall crafts I wanted to do with the kids in the next few weeks. Spooky Bats are easy and we did them, because I had all the materials on hand except the googly eyes. So we set out to make the bats.

What you need.

• a cardboard egg carton
• black paint
• ribbon
• googly eyes
• paint brush

I must say that we didn't have finger paint either, so I looked up a recipe on how to make our own. Here is the recipe . . .

1c water
1c flour
food coloring

Mixed the flour and water in a bowl till smooth. Add food coloring to make the color you want. Done! This turned out to be a great learning opportunity for Misses, because she had to mix the colors to create black and orange.

Check out the final product done by Misses (4) and Bubba (1)!

Bubba got board and ate some paint, but who cares it's just flour and water!

Our Spoooooky Bats hanging from the fan.

They aren't completely black because Misses got tired of mixing.