| BABY BAT
poem
The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
"Turn on the dark,
I'm afraid of the light!"
BAT HATS
Bat hats are fun for this time of year. But a black two inch
strip large enough to go around the child's head. Glue on wings
to the side and add eyes in the front. When the kids walk around
the wings move and it almost looks as if they are flying.
BATS
Submitted by Shelley
Five Batty Bats
Five batty bats
Were hanging b‘neath the moon.
"Quiet!" said the first.
"The witch is coming soon."
"She’s green," said the second,
"With a purple pointy nose."
"Black boots," said the third,
"Cover up her ugly toes."
"Her broom," said the fourth,
"Can scratch you - that I know!"
"I’m scared," said the fifth.
"I think we’d better go."
Five batty bats
Escaped into the night.
"Dear me," said the witch.
"That’s a scary sight!"
Bats
Submitted by Terri
Bats: This is the theme I am working on right now with the
kids. Here are some of the activities from my lesson plans.
1. Make toilet paper tube bats. Paint tube black or brown
and then add bat wings.
2. Use 3 sections of an egg carton. Remove the front section only
of the two end sections. Paint. Attach a rubber band to hang it
from and wiggle eyes. Voila. . a bat
3. Hearing Experiment: Choose one child to be the bat. The
bat sits in the middle of the circle. Give two different sounding musical
instruments to two different children. The bat closes his eyes. The
children play the instruments and the bat must use his ears to point in the
direction of the sounds.
4. Hand Print Bats
Paint both hands black and put side by side (bat wings). Add wiggly eyes.
5. My class used to love to make Bat Toast ... like French Toast.
Cut bread into bat shapes with a cookie cutter. Dip in egg batter. Cook in
electric skillet coated with Pam or butter, whatever. Serve with jam. Not all
that exciting, but they love it. And you can repeat this activity with increased
skill and dexterity with ANY theme.
6. Fudgy Bat Cookies
9 oz Chocolate wafer cookies
4 oz Milk chocolate candy melts
Use a serrated knife to carefully cut 18 of the cookies into quarters. Save
remaining cookies for another use. For each bat, place 2 cookie quarters 1/4" apart
on waxed paper. Repeat with remaining quarters. Melt candy melts. Drop about
1/2 teaspoon of melted candy at center of each bat, connecting cookies. Use
a toothpick to smooth melted candy into a uniform circle. Cool completely before
removing from waxed paper.
7. Make a fruit salad from mangoes, banana and dates to represent
the types of fruit that fruit bats eat.
8. Make a bat cave. we made the entryway into our room into a cave
by sponge painting black paper with different shades of brown paint and silver
glitter and covered all sides and suspended paper from the top by using paper
clips in the suspension ceiling.
9. Books
BAT JAMBOREE (Kathi Appelt, ill. by Melissa Sweet)
STELLALUNA (Janell Cannon)-also check out the book and CD-Rom for this story
Bats
Submitted by Sharon
When the sun goes down,
Bats wake from their sleep.
They begin to stir
And squeak and peep.
Then they dart about
Their cavernous room,
Anxious for
The deepening gloom.
They pour from their cave
Out into the night,
Huge black clouds
In hungry flight.
Gobbling beetles
And moths as they fly,
They darken the already
Darkened sky...
Only returning
When night grows gray
To hang from their ceilings
And sleep all day.
Dee Lilligard
Title: BAT ACTIVITIES
The following cross curriculum bat ideas were submitted by Anita
of the K.O.S. Loop
Amazing Bat Trivia
1. The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing
less than a penny.
2. Giant flying foxes that live in Indonesia have wingspans of nearly
six feet. The common little brown bat of North America is the world's
longest-lived mammal for its size, with life spans sometimes exceeding 32 years.
3. Mexican free-tailed bats sometimes fly up to two miles high to feed
or to catch tailwinds that carry them over long distances at speeds of more
than 60 miles per hour.
4. The pallid bat of western North America is immune to the stings of
scorpions and even the seven-inch centipede upon which it feeds.
5. Fishing bats have echolocation so sophisticated that they can detect
a minnow's fin as fine as a human hair, protruding only two millimeters above
a ponds surface.
6. African heart-nosed bats can hear the footsteps of a beetle walking
on sand from a distance of more than six feet.
7. Red bats, which live in tree foliage throughout most of North America,
can withstand body temperatures as low as 23 degrees F. during winter hibernation.
8. Tiny woolly bats of West Africa live in the large webs of colonial
spiders.
9. The Honduran white bat is snow white with a yellow nose and ears. It
cuts large leaves to make "tents" that protect its small colonies from jungle
rains.
10. Frog-eating bats identify edible from poisonous frogs by listening
to the mating calls of male frogs.
11. Vampire bats adopt orphans and have been known to risk their lives
to share food with less fortunate roost-males.
But of all the enemies that kill bats, the most dangerous are humans. Humans,
victims of wrong ideas about bats, have been killing them by the millions.
The truth is that bats are much more helpful than they are harmful. They help
to control crop pests and other insects that spread disease to humans and livestock. Think
how many more harmful and destructive insects there would be if insectivorous
bats were not here to eat tons of insect pests each night to keep down the
insect population. Bats are needed in large numbers to help maintain the balance
of nature.
Title: More Bat Facts - Informative
Did You Know? Bat Facts
1. Did you know that bats have knees, elbows, wrists, and
fingers? Bats use their thumbs and feet to hold food and hold their
babies.
2. Most bats eat insects. Some eat fruit, fish, or plants. Bats
have sharp teeth to help them chew their food.
3. Bats can be the size of a jellybean (bumblebee bat) or be as large
as the fruit bat, which has the wingspan of more then 5 feet!
4. Bats live everywhere in the world except in the Arctic and Antarctica.
Title: Make a Bat - ART
Cut two cups from an egg carton for each bat. Glue these to
each side of wings cut from black paper. Cut pointed ears and
glue in place. Use paper- punch dot eyes and a mouth cut from
red paper. Glue a string to the back and hang up.
Title: Hand Print Bats
Paint both hands black and put side by side (bat wings). Add wiggly
eyes.
Title: Bat Mural - ART
Take a piece of paper and fold in half. Cut out a bat shape or make
a template that can be traced around on each paper and let the kids
cut out. Let the children decorate. Show them pictures of bats. Not
all bats are black. Some are white. Some are black with white spots.
Some are brown, red, and gray and many other colors. Let the child
pick out the bat that they want to color. Draw a huge cave using
brown paper. Hang all the bats around the cave.
When you hang the bats, fold the wings to wrap around the body like real bats
do. Some are hanging, flying, sleeping etc.
Title: Bat Art
Sponge paint with bat shaped sponges.
Title: Science - Hearing
Bats use their sense of hearing to help them find food; their ears
are very sensitive. A bat can tell where and object or animal is
by making clicking sounds that result in echoes (echolocation). Bats
can tell where trees and buildings are by using this system. That
is how bats can fly in darkness without hitting anything.
Hearing Experiment
One child is the bat and 3 or 4 other children will make sounds.
Give the 3 or 4 children something to make a sound with like a bell,
wooden sticks to click together, or a drum. With the bat in the
middle the other children position themselves around the bat. Bat should
close eyes. Children should make their noise and the bat should
walk over to that child and touch him. Continue until everyone
has a chance to be the bat.
Title: Bat Poem
One little bat was trying to behave.
He hung upside down from his feet in a cave.
Another bat flew in, and said, "How do you do?"
The second joined the first, and then there were 2!
2 little bats were trying to behave.
They hung upside down from their feet in a cave.
To help pass the time, they sang "Do re me"
Another bat joined the song, and then there were 3.
3 little bats were trying to behave
They hung upside down from their feet in a cave
From their cave perch, they looked down at the floor,
A new bat joined the game, and then there were 4.
4 little bats were trying to behave.
They hung upside down from their feet in a cave.
One little bat zoomed inside and did a dive.
He stayed to take a rest, and with him there were 5.
Title: Bats - Poem
Bats have shiny leather wings,
Bats do many clever things,
Bats doze upside-down by day,
Bats come out at night to play.
Bats cavort in soaring cliques,
Sounding ultrasonic shrieks,
Acrobatic in the sky,
Bats catch every bug they spy.
Thanks Anita for all those great "batty" ideas! |
