Bat Themed Halloween Gift Basket

A Peek at the Fun: Want to surprise someone this Halloween with a creative Halloween gift basket? This one has goodies stuffed inside a cute bat mouth, making it super fun and creative. Fill it with anything you want and include this cute free printable tag!

I LOVE these fun carve-able craft pumpkins that you can find at craft stores these days and I love putting together cute gifts, so I thought it would be fun to carve one of these cute pumpkins and then fill it with Halloween fun and make it into a perfect Halloween gift basket! And to make it even cuter, I’ve made mine look like a little bat. A cute, smiling, fun-filled bat. Here’s our cute Batty Gift Idea:

He’s got a mouthful of Halloween fun! You could fill him with candy and treats or little things like socks, stickers, pencils, nail polish, cute band-aids, glow sticks or anything cute. I found a bunch of things in the dollar spot that were perfect.

Cute right? Who would you give this Halloween gift basket to? Got someone in your life who will love it?

Let’s make it!

Batty Halloween Gift Basket:

Supplies Needed:

Black Carve-able Pumpkin (I got mine at Michael’s craft store)
Knife to cut with
Hot Glue
Large googly eyes
Black cardstock
White cardstock
Printable tag (see below)
Bat Wing Template

Instructions:

Mark a circle for the mouth opening on your pumpkin.

Cut along the line you just made.

Cut your wings from black cardstock. (There’s a pattern above if you want it.) Cut your fangs from white cardstock.

Use hot glue to attach the eyes, wings, and fangs.

Fill the opening with all your goodies.

Printable Halloween Gift Tag:

Then attach this cute Halloween tag. You can either right click and save and open in a program like Word or Pages and size how you want then print, OR you can print the PDF below that has several tags ready for you on it.

Batty Gift Tags

Here’s a video to see how I did it: