Stained Glass-effect Bats

Equipment

Black paper

Coloured crepe or tissue paper

Craft scissors

Glue or selotape

Instructions

1. Take an A4 sized sheet of black paper and fold in half down the centre.

Hands folding a sheet of black paper in half

2. Then use the following steps to draw a half bat on the paper. First draw in dots where points of the wings are located, as shown in the photograph.

White dots marked on the folded black paper

3. Draw one ear at one end of the bat (beside the fold line) and then used curved lines to join the dots.

Half a bat outline drawn on the folded paper

9. Cut out the bat from the fold side and only cut along the outline of the bat from there.

Scissors cutting along the bat outline

10. When complete open out the shape and there should be a hole shaped like a bat in the paper.

Cut black paper with a bat-shaped hole beside the cut-out bat

11. Using waste black paper cut several black strips and stick these to the underside of the bat’s wings to represent fingers – they should stretch from the point on the upper edge of the wing to points on the lower edge.

Black paper strips across the bat-shaped hole to make the wing fingers

12. Stick crepe paper over this. Yellow crepe paper being stuck over the bat-shaped hole with a glue stick

13. Your stained glass bat!

The finished stained glass bat glowing orange in a window