These pillow box bats are the perfect Halloween craft and gift for kids this year. Fill them with candy, or non-candy treats to hand out to friends and family.
Disclosure: I am participating in the HERSHEY’S BOO BLVD. campaign via Mom Bloggers Club. This post was sponsored by HERSHEY’S.
Each year before Halloween I make a fun gift with the kids that they can hand out to friends in their classroom at school.
This year I am a contributor to HERSHEY’S BOO BLVD on Celebrate with HERSHEY’S and was asked to create a Halloween craft. Of course, I wanted our craft to be inspired by HERSHEY’S candy and had to be easy enough for kids to help with, after all, they are going to be handing it out so it’s important for them to be a part of the creative process too.
This year they will be handing out these pillow box bat treat boxes:
Aren’t they adorable? Not ‘scary’ Halloween at all, and perfect for little ones.
What you need:
- Black pillow boxes
- Sturdy black card (not completely stiff, you want to be able to fold it in half)
- Pencil or marker (for writing on the black card)
- Googly eyes
- Craft glue
- Scissors
- Your favorite Hershey’s candy (pillow boxes are the perfect size for snack-sized candy)
To make:
Assemble your pillow boxes.
Fold the black card. Place the pillow box on the black card at the crease (half on and half off). Draw a bat wing on the card.
Cut the bat wing out. You can use this as your template for all other bat wings required. Trace each one and cut them out.
Apply craft glue down the center crease of each bat wing and attach it to the back of each pillow box.
Glue googly eyes onto each bat. Set aside to dry.
Once dry, fill with your favorite HERSHEY’S snack size candy, or like I did, with REESE’S PIECES.
I think the kids are going to love our little bat treat boxes.
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31 comments
SO CUTE!
These are so super cute!!!
I am pinning this!
Ashley
http://www.simplydesigning.blogspot.com
these are just adorable Tonya! 🙂
Thank you so much Ashley, have a wonderful day.
Thank you Rebecca 🙂
Thank you Jen 🙂
Such a clever idea. I can’t imagine any child who wouldn’t love to receive one!
Love this!! Where did you find the pillow boxes or did you use a diecut to make them?
Hi Amber,
I found a box of them at Michael's in the wedding section. Don't forget your coupon :).
These are really adorable!! What a cute treat to pass out 😉 Found you featured on m.m.m 😉 I’m your newest follower!
-Fotini { http://glamorousbride.blogspot.com }
These are so adorable! 🙂
Fantastic idea, and I love that it is so simple! If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll visit “One Creative Weekend” on OneCreativeMommy.com today (or any time Fri-Wed) and link up!
thank you so much, and for telling me about M.M.M. I had no idea until you mentioned it :).
I just ordered black pillow boxes from Oriental Trading – can’t wait to get them and start assembling 50+ bats for the kids’ friends and teachers. Thanks so much for the idea!
Susie
Yay, I'm so glad you liked them. I hope you'll share a picture once they are done.
Now that’s a craft that even I could do. Love that it is so simple yet interesting.
Thanks, Tonya! I’ll do these for the kid’s class parties and a Girl Scout party! I pinned on two of my Pinterest boards too!
Yay, so glad you liked them Rajean. Great idea for the girl scout party.
Thank you Jill. I'm all about simple 🙂
Love those little bats- my son will get a kick out of them, since all the halloween stuff has come out he is in love with them
Love this idea!! So cute and simple! As a dentist we might suggest erasers, stickers, or another non candy treat for the filling. 🙂
Every year I make something for Halloween for the kids in my grandsons class. These would be perfect! The only thing I would change, would be the wings….I have a ton of black felt, so I think I’ll use that instead!
Felt is a great idea for the wings.
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I’d just like to add that if you don’t have pillow boxes, toilet paper rolls painted black work great! You can simply fold in the ends. 🙂
I just made these Bat Treats for my kids’ classmates for Halloween treats! They were SO cute…thanks so much for the great idea. Got so many compliments on them and the kids loved them.
I used Sixlets chocolates instead, to account for peanut allergies. And I adhered the googly eyes with Glue Dots…made it even easier and no drying time!
Will definitely be back to your site for other holiday craft ideas!
Fantastic, thank you for sharing. Hope the kids enjoyed their treats
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these are amazing! Thank you so much for nice information
Years later but I wish you provided a template for the bat wings. Instructions that say “draw bat wings” for those of us who can’t draw, are not helpful.
These are really cute! I’m making craft kits for my grandchildren, since I can’t be with them (Thank you, Covid), and am including these in a kit. I cut and scored pillow boxes and bat wings on my Cricut machine out of cardstock, then cut eye and fang vinyl for them to stick on. I think they’ll have a blast making these!