It’s never too early to start preparing for Halloween! Let’s face it–I started two weeks ago! Halloween is my favorite holiday and I’m always looking for ways to add to the fun. Our girls loooove decorations (I wonder where they got that from!) and I love to surprise them with something new when they get home from school. This easy bat paper lantern can be whipped up in no time and is perfect for the Halloween season and an easy decorative surprise.
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For this lantern, I used:
- one sheet of black vinyl
- one paper lantern
- swag light kit (similar)
- Cricut Explore
I loaded up Cricut’s Design Space and pulled up my favorite bat shapes. I cut them out in a bunch of different sizes.
It was really easy to pull the vinyl off the sheet. I opened up the paper lantern and carefully applied the bats.
Once I had as many bats on the lantern as I wanted, I screwed in a light bulb to the swag kit and inserted through the top of the lantern. The girls are going to love this one! This easy bat paper lantern is sure to be a hit this Halloween!
It’s easy until I needed special equipment….lol. I may try my hand at cutting some bats out of vinyl by hand. Very fun halloween decor
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Totally fair criticism! I’m sure any cutting machine would do the same thing, or using a free bat template online to cut out the shapes by hand shouldn’t be too bad.
You could get away with hand cutting bats on card stock instead of vinyl.
Absolutely!
Cute, simple and fast–my favorite kind!
Steph @ Crafting in the Rain recently posted…Sparkling Features and Do Tell Tuesday #40
cute! I even have some yellow lanterns to use…
These are awesome! Fun and easy project. I love the results!
Jillene@inkhappi recently posted…Glass Message Board and Window Markers
these are always so much fun to make! Halloween decor is the best! 😉
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This is a cute idea! I have about a trillion of these things in my closet left over from my wedding – I should make some!
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Now these are cute and should be easy even for me. Great time to try out cutting vinyl.
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Great idea!! Perfect for Halloween!!
I love this!! So simple but so stinkin’ fun and cute!
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Great idea!
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