How to make vampire bat decorations

I made several of these bats to hang from our trees. They're really easy to make.

Step 1: Materials

You'll need two different sized styrofoam balls, black tissue paper, five minute epoxy, white glue, some white paint, some wire, a couple of black foamie sheets and an X-Acto knife.

Comments

[taria]

this is awesome , but those large Styrofoam balls aren't cheap. :( The one I wanted to use for this cost over 20 bucks. might have to make a bunch of tiny ones that no one can see...uggg the price to pay for something cool.

[Rudy2booty]

I was thinking to add a funny twist you make a garden gnome with skydiving gear.
I am going to attempt it

[Honus]

Make sure to post pics!

[paper warrior]

I bet you could mod them to look like squirrels, elves,whatever fits the season.Great instructable.

[Tool Using Animal]

Your "images" are as adorable as the bat.

[Honus]

You like that huh! :) I figured I should do some kind of diagrams since I didn't take any photos when I made them- now I know better. What's funny is I actually have a fine arts background- classical painter and all that. I like your name- you must be a fan of Thomas Carlyle: "Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all." I use that as a signature on another web board I visit.

[FrenchCrawler]

Nice Job... When I first saw it, I thought you had paper machied around some balloons and after it all dried, popped the balloons, to create the head and body. This way works too :)