🦇 How to Sew a Cute Felt Bat Plushie – With a Free Printable Pattern - Easy Halloween Sewing Project for Kids & Adults

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Finished easy beginner friendly felt bat pattern

I’m so excited to help you make this spooky-sweet Halloween bat! This little felt friend is the perfect mix of cute and creepy — a soft, not-so-scary Halloween craft that’s fun for both kids and crafty adults.

Whether you’re new to sewing or just looking for a relaxing, beginner felt project, this pattern is easy, adorable, and totally beginner-friendly. Kids ages 8 and up can make it with a little help from an adult. Along the way, you’ll learn simple hand-sewing stitches and create your very own Halloween plush buddy. Ready to get stitchin’? Let’s go!

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✂️ What You’ll Need

- Felt (in your chosen colors for body, belly, wing, and ears)
- Free Bat pattern (link below)
- Sharpie Markers (or similar) for tracing
- Embroidery floss (try to match the colors to your felt)
- Needle with the big eye / Embroidery Needle (a child-friendly one works best)
- Scissors
- Stuffing (polyester filler, scrap felt, or even ripped-up plastic grocery bags)Click Image to Download and Print Click Image to Download and Print

Step 1: Cut Out Your Bat

Download and print your free bat pattern. Trace each piece onto felt using your marker. Remember to flip any pieces that need to be cut twice (like head, body, feet and ears). Carefully cut along your traced lines, trimming off extra marker where needed.

💡 Save your scraps for stuffing later!

Step 2: Add a Face – Eyes, Nose & Smile (Knot Stitch + Backstitch)

Give your bat a friendly Halloween grin! **Use the bigger circles for the face!**

🪡 How to Knot Stitch (for Eyes):

Thread your needle and tie a knot at the end.
Bring the needle up from the back where you want the eye.
Make a tiny stitch down and up again in almost the same spot.
Repeat 2–3 times to make the eye pop.
Tie a knot on the back to secure.

Felt bat nose and back stitch for the mouth

🪡 How to Knot Stitch (for Nose):

Thread your needle and tie a knot at the end.
Bring the needle up from the back where you want the nose, and make a longer diagonal stitch than you did for the eyes, we are going to make a triangle shape for the nose.
Make a tiny stitch stitch across, then bring your thread up just under your previous stitch and make another shorter stitch.
Repeat 2–3 times to make a triangle nose, where each stitch is close together, but gets a little bit shorter. At the end I also did and outside stitch around all of mine to make it really triangle looking.
Tie a knot on the back to secure.

felt bat face

✨ How to Backstitch (for Mouth):

Start by bringing your needle up through the felt.
Move forward a short space and push down.
Bring the needle up a little ahead, then go back into the end of the previous stitch.
Repeat for a smooth stitched line — perfect for a spooky-cute smile and/or add fangs!

🪡 Step 3: Sew the Bat’s Head Together (Blanket Stitch & Running Stitch)

Now it’s time to put the two head pieces together. Line them up and use a blanket stitch starting at the bottom of the bat’s face, and go to the side about where it’s eyeball is. Pause there to add the bat’s ear.

✨ How to Blanket Stitch

Thread your needle and tie a knot.
Start at the edge of the felt, push the needle up through one layer, pull it through.
Go down through both layers a little bit forward.
Before pulling the stitch tight, slide the needle through the loop of thread.
Pull gently so it makes a little “hook” along the edge.
Keep going around the edge of the cat’s head.
Once you’ve stitched along the side to where you want to add the ear, stop.

Step 4: Add the Bat’s Ear (Running Stitch)

Line up the two pieces of the bat’s ear, with the smaller (in my case pink) piece in front and the bigger (in my case gray) piece in back. Give the bottom of them a pinch fold, where your taking the bottom, outside, corner and brining it the middle for both sides to get a little bit of a fold. Or Skip the fold and have floppier ears. Both options are great.

Add the two ear pieces between the two head pieces on the bat. Use a running stitch to attach it.

✨ How To Running Stitch

Push the needle up from the back of the fabric.
Move forward and push it down again.
Keep going: up, down, up, down, leaving little spaces between stitches.
It’ll look like a dashed line. Easy and fast!

Continue with a blanket stitch between the ears, and then repeat the previous steps to add the second ear.

blanket stitch between the bat ears

Step 5: Stuff the bats face and close with a knot stitch

Stuff the head gently, then finish sewing it closed. Tie a knot to finish!

Step 6: Stitch the Wings to the Body (Knot Stitch)

Take one of the smaller circle body pieces and lay the wings across it. Attach the wings with 2–3 small knot stitches right in the middle of the wings and body.
Make sure they’re even — or slightly lopsided for extra Halloween charm!

Step 7: Sew the Body (Blanket Stitch)

Flip your body piece over so the wings are on the outside of your bat, and get the second body piece to layer over the piece with the bat wings. It should line up perfectly, and the wings should NOT be in the middle, sandwich style, but on the outside of the second piece.

Start your first stitch on the bats neck area and sew around the bats body with a blanket stitch, being careful not to sew in or get tangle with your wings. When you reach the bottom of your bats body, slip the feet in between both pieces of the bats body and attach them with a running stitch similar to how the ears were attached.

Stuff the bats body, and sew it closed, and knot the end, but don’t cut your string yet! (or if you did/do just get another long piece of string and knot it in place at the far side of the bats neck.

Step 8: Attach the Head to the Body (Ladder Stitch)

🧵 Use a ladder stitch to invisibly connect your bat’s head and body.

✨ How to Ladder Stitch:

Line up the bottom of the head with the top of the body.
Bring your needle up through the head edge.
Cross over into the body, then come up a little forward.
Go back into the head and repeat across the seam.
When you’re finished going across the bottom of the head a neck, pull gently to close the gap. Magic!