DIY HANGING AND FLYING BATS FOR SOME HAUNTED HALLOWEEN DECOR!

  Brought to you by www.marthastewart.com .  I'm getting ready to make a batch of these so that they can hang upside down on my porch.  Welcome trick-or-treaters in hair-raising style by turning your front porch into a bat cave.

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Tools and Materials

• Half-bat template
• Thick black paper
• Bone folder
• Painters' tape or removable hooks

Hanging Bats

1. Print our half-bat template; then fold a piece of thick black paper down the middle, place the template on the fold, and trace. Cut out, and unfold. Use a bone folder to crease wings (and fold opposite the direction of body fold).
2. Poke holes in the bat for monofilament: in the tail for an upside-down bat, in the wings and head for one that's right side up. Hang from ceiling with painters' tape or removable hooks.