Use these free printable templates as coloring pages or craft patterns. Choose Black and white for detailed line art to color on paper, or Outline for a simple shape to trace onto paper, card or felt and cut out. Set your size, save a PDF, and print at 100% or Actual size.
Free for personal and commercial use, including shop decorations, classroom activities and promotional displays.
28 friendly bat designs for Halloween decorations, paper crafts and coloring. Choose a bat, set its width in inches or centimeters, then download a printable PDF, SVG or transparent PNG.
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Width starts at 1 cm, with no fixed 100 cm limit. Height keeps the original proportions. Large designs can span up to 100 printed sheets. In free arrangement, use Fit all designs after enlarging a design; adding sheets alone does not enlarge it.
Outline: outer contour for tracing and cutting out. Black and white: detailed line art for coloring pages and craft templates. Color: ready-made decorations.
Place multiple illustrations wherever you like, at any size.
Applies when printing across multiple sheets. With no overlap, trim the blank margins and align the image edges.
Save a settings file to reuse later on this template page. Includes automatic arrangements, free layouts, paper, sizes and line thicknesses. Loading replaces the current settings; Undo restores them. Files are processed on your device.
Select an illustration to add it. Drag a design to move it. Use the top handle to rotate and the lower-right handle to resize.
Add enough sheets to fit every design at its current size.
2 across × 3 down = 6 sheets. Adding sheets keeps designs the same size.
Blue bands show where sheets overlap. Guides are not printed.
Use “Fit all designs” to adjust the canvas to fit every illustration without resizing it. To choose an exact size, open “Set width and height”.
The finished size and number of sheets appear at the top of the preview.
Blue bands show the 5 mm overlap between neighboring sheets. Trim the blank margin from one sheet, align the matching artwork, then tape or glue the sheets together.
Blue bands and sheet guides are not printed.
Making the canvas smaller does not shrink the illustrations. Anything outside the canvas is cropped when saving or printing.
Changing the paper or orientation keeps illustration sizes and positions unchanged. Up to 100 sheets are supported.
Choose from nine classic bat shapes plus 19 illustrated scenes: hanging bat friends, a watermelon snack, diving and stretching bats, a coffin, a cauldron, pumpkin naps, a lantern, books, a bat family, a witch hat, candy, a ghost costume, a spider friend, an autumn wreath. Each design is available in color, black and white or outline only.
Trace the outline onto construction paper to make window decorations, a bat garland or classroom bulletin board displays. Mix small and large bats for a flying scene. The sleeping and upside-down bats add variety to a cave or nighttime display.
Choose Download Transparent PNG in Save / Print. PNG uses the same sheets, sizes, quantities, styles and arrangement as PDF, with a transparent paper background. White areas inside the artwork stay white. One sheet downloads as a PNG; multiple sheets download together in a ZIP file.
Yes. Choose Transparent PNG to save the same sheets and settings as PDF with a transparent paper background. Multiple sheets are saved in one ZIP file.
Yes. Use them for personal crafts, classroom activities, shop decorations and commercial projects without a fee or sign-up.
Yes. Designs larger than the printable area are automatically tiled. Match the ROW and COL labels and overlap neighboring sheets by 5 mm. The limit is 100 pages.
Choose “Outline only”. Trace or cut the shape from black paper. Faces and wing details are omitted in this style.
Choose “Arrange different bats freely”. The selected bat is placed automatically; add more with “Add selected bat”. Each bat keeps its own size, style, details and mirror setting. Drag it to move it and use the round handle to resize it. Choose “Fit within canvas” to bring an oversized bat back inside.
Choose the same paper size as the PDF and print at “Actual size” or 100%. Disable “Fit to page”. Measure the 50 mm check ruler after printing. The selected width is measured between the outer contour centerlines. SVG downloads include a 1 mm margin on each side.
No. The template preview and PDF, SVG and transparent PNG generation run in your browser. Your chosen sizes and arrangements are not sent to a server.
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