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25 Amazing All About Bat Activities and Bat Craft for Kids

Ghosts, pumpkins, witches… when our students think about Halloween, these three words typically come to mind first. But let’s not forget about bats! I love to help students learn all about bats during the month of October with these twenty-five interactive bat activities and adorable bat craft!

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

These bat activities can be completed whole group or as a center. We typically aim to complete one or two pages per day in our interactive bat shape book.

At the end of the week, the students will have an entire bat shaped book containing all sorts of facts about bats. Itโ€™s the perfect way to reinforce what theyโ€™ve learned and showcase their newfound knowledge!

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Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

Literacy Bat Activities

We create a KWL anchor chart, as we begin our study on bats. It’s always enjoyable to hear students’ existing knowledge (or misconceptions) about bats.

To activate prior knowledge, we start by filling out the “K” section on day one. On day two, we list all our questions. I prefer using sticky notes to capture their responses, but writing directly on the anchor chart works just as well.

After completing the “K” and “W” sections of our KWL chart, we delve into reading our nonfiction text all about bats.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

This text not only introduces students to bat facts, but it also familiarizes them with nonfiction text features. Students explore the bats life cycle, anatomy, diet, habitat, and more through bold words, diagrams, maps, labels, captions, and a picture glossary.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

After reading the nonfiction text and exploring other nonfiction books about bats, we gather as a whole group to complete the “L” section of our KWL chart. This is an excellent opportunity to clear up any misconceptions and reflect on what we have learned.

Students, then, independently record three facts about bats.

Later in the week, we work on our “Can, Have, Are” anchor chart together as a whole group. Afterwards, students complete their individual pages during centers.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

Additional ways we incorporate literacy is with this life cycle of a bat emergent reader, matching pocket chart sentences and interactive flip book.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

Throughout the week, the student independently practice the mix and fix pocket chart sentences at our pocket chart center.

To help learn the parts of a bat, we label our bat with beginning sounds.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

Students can also use the diagram poster as a guide to support their spelling if they choose to label the parts of a bat with the full word.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

We also label the parts of a bat’s wing. Just like arms and hands, a bat’s wing is covered in skin and has an elbow, fingers and a thumb.

Science Bat Activities

I easily integrate science into our bat activities by examining the life cycle of a bat, their diet, habitat, and predators.

First, we carefully review the key vocabulary words we are learning, as we add the picture cards to our pocket chart.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

Next, we revisit our nonfiction text to reread the section all about the life cycle of a bat. We, then, use the life cycle picture cards to create a whole class life cycle of a bat anchor chart. Then, the students color, cut, and glue the life cycle of a bat in their interactive shape book.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

We also complete two pages about a mother bat and a baby bat.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

To learn more about a bat’s diet, we complete a whole class pocket chart activity where we sort picture cards as either “insectivorous bat foods” or “frugivorous bat foods.” Then, students independently do the same in their interactive shape book as they cut, sort, and glue the pictures under the correct heading.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

We discuss how microbats locate objects and tell how big or far away something is by using echolocation.

We also talk about how bats have sharp teeth and the size and shape of their teeth differs depending on their diet.

Next, we complete a predators of a bat sheet, as well as a bat habitat page.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

Then, we discuss how bats are nocturnal and attach the correct flaps on our “Life of a Bat” page.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

Math Bat Activities

As we are learning all about bats, we also complete a variety of math bat activities!

First, the student’s work on number recognition as they complete a color by number activity all about the appearance of a bat. Students are always surprised to learn that a bat is covered in fur.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

Then, we compare the sizes of a microbat and megabats, as we match the small bat picture and large bat picture accordingly.

After that, we complete a fun whole class graphing and analyzing data activity. For this activity, we survey how many friends think bats are cute and how many friends think bats are creepy. We tally the results and then create a graph of our findings.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

Last, the students complete this number sentence as they add three more bats to the colony.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

Social Studies Bat Activities

Not only do we complete math, literacy, and science bat activities, but we also complete a social studies bat activity as well!

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

For this activity, the students color, cut, and glue the bats all over the world, avoiding Antartica, extreme deserts, and polar regions.

Bat Shape Book Craft

At the end of the week, the students put the bat craft together for the cover of their book.

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

Once all of the pages are cut out and the cover is complete, we assemble all of the pages so the students have a handy bat shaped book containing all sorts of facts about bats. This is a great way to anchor their learning!

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Don’t forget to check out these 20 pumpkin investigation activities for little learners!

Integrate math, literacy, science and social studies into your pumpkin investigation activities this fall or Halloween! Plus, learn about the life cycle of a pumpkin, where in the world a pumpkin grows, the size of a pumpkin, and more with these pumpkin themed activities and pumpkin crafts perfect for preschool, pre k and kindergarten.

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Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!
Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!
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Ashley Sharp

As a dedicated Kindergarten teacher for nearly 20 years, I believe the words “fun, play, and creativity” can sit right alongside the words “developmentally appropriate, engaging, and rigorous.” Learning is meant to be fun and messy!

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