This is an origami bat with great battitude and batsonality! It flutters into our spooky space to join a growing group of origami models for Halloween previously featured in Origami Spirit.
Jennifer Linderman –artist, teacher and a wonderfully creative friend of mine, is the designer of this bat. Folding it makes me wish to be a child again and attend Jennifer’s fun-filled origami classes.
Spanish fun fact: Bat in Spanish is murciélago, a word containing the five vowels: u, i, e, a, o.
The following step-by-step video shows how to make this cute origami bat. Thank you, Jennifer, for giving permission to present your model.
Tips and suggestions for making the origami bat
- In the video, the bat is demonstrated using a very thin paper.
- The smaller you want to make this bat the thinner the paper that should be used.
- A good paper size to learn the model would be 7×7-inch (18×18cm)
- The finished paper bat shows two sides of the paper. It is best to use paper with the same color on both sides.
Hang these origami bats upside down from a thread
to make a garland of halloween bats.
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Use your bats as part of Halloween compositions.
Bat-tastic! These are great little bats. I made heaps of them and hung them up with string everywhere. My home is now a Halloween paradise!
Hi Leila
Very good! Fantastic!
Please, could you tell me the kind of role that I can use to make lampshade origami?
Thanks
Mércia
Gr-r-r-reetings Leyla!
One can never have too many Halloween Bat decorations and this one is an A+! What a terrific design and realistic, too! A definite Must-Fold! Thank you, Leyla, and Jennifer Linderman!
What type paper is the purple sheet? I’ve never seen any paper so thin and crisp!
Hi Dawn,
I wish I could tell you what kind of paper it is. I picked up a few sheets of it in one of my trips. I don’t even remember exactly where :-(
Sooo cute!! I can’t wait to try this!!!
Thank you Louise!
So lovely this Bat!
Thank you Leyla!
You are welcome Helena!