Bat Resource Page

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Golden Crowned Fruit Bat
General Information About Bats

Bat Conservation International 
 Learn about bats

Enchanted Learning: Bats 
 Info about bats for young children.

How Bats Work 
 Learn how bats use echo location, their wings and more on How Stuff Works

Defenders: Bats 
 Quick fact sheet about bats

NWF: Night Friends – Bats of the Americas
On-line Activity Guide as a PDF

Wikipedia: List of Bat Species 
 A long list of bat species
Lubee Bat Conservancy
Fruit bat conservation & adopt-a-bat program

US Fish and Wildlife Service: Bats 
 White-nose Syndrome and Bats are Cool, US

Wikipedia: Bats

Earthlife: Bat Anatomy
Labeled bat skeleton.

EEK! Bats – Creatures of the Night
Find out a little about bats: What their name means, facts and information.

Bat Themes Units – Learning Across the Curriculum

Enchanted Learning: Bat Theme 

 Bat Theme, info, printouts, craft ideas.
Kidszone: Bats: 
Printable and online activities, information and slide show.

Homeschool Share: Stellaluna 
Lapbook and Unit Study.

Homeschool Share: Nocturnal Animals
Lapbook and Unit Study.

First School: Bat Theme Preschool Activities and Crafts
Letter ‘B’ printable page, link to facts and images, link to an online version of Stellaluna, bat coloring pages and bat crafts.


Bat Crafts and Activities

Fran’s World of Discovery: Bats 
2 Sound games.

Difficult Origami Bat  

PDF illustrated instructions.

DLTK: Bats

Bat crafts, activities, coloring pages, puzzle sheets.

Origami Bat 
 Written and illustrated directions for a different bat. Downloadable PDF.

Origami Bat Video

Watch and learn how to make an easy origami bat.

Bat Paper
Printable paper with lines and a bat boarder.


Activity Village: Bat Crafts
Bat costume, bat felt toy, fuse bead pattern, Halloween moon, Halloween mobile and more.

University of Florida: Bat Cam
View of the exterior bat house.

Wild Watch Cams: Big Brown Bats
Washington Dept of Fish & Wildlife offers a cam that can be refreshed every 10 seconds and can be watched for 15 minutes at a time.

Bat Videos



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