My Free Amigurumi Bat Pattern is easy to make and has minimal sewing! Perfect to make for Halloween!
Personally, I love bats. I think they are super interesting creatures that adapt to their surroundings. Their use of sonar is so unique and the thought of echolocation for an animal is a cool creature power!
Making a crochet bat is actually pretty easy, especially my pattern since the wings are practically a large folded circle, and the head and body is actually one piece. Making it easy to make a few of these for your bat loving friends (or yourself) as well as decorate for Halloween since you don't have to fiddle with sewing.
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✏️ Things to Note:
- The head and body is one continuous piece, no sewing required. The only sewing you need to do for this free amigurumi bat pattern is sewing on the ears, and the wings - making it easier to make and less fiddly!
- I used acrylic yarn for this free amigurumi bat pattern. You can use acrylic, cotton, and even chunky yarn for the pattern if you are wanting to make a giant bat. I would stay away from wool unless you are okay with it shrinking if you have to wash it.
- The base of the pattern only calls for single crochet (sc) and then double crochet (dc) for the wings. Making amigurumi or crocheted stuffed toys is actually quite simple when you break it down!
- My stitches are tight when I single crochet, but if you have trouble keeping stitches tight instead of yarning over during a sc, yarn under. It creates a tighter stitch naturally. It might take awhile to get used to the way to do the stitches this way, but most people who do amigurumi suggest yarning under.
🪡 Materials Needed
- 1 skein of lavender yarn from Red Heart (or whatever color you prefer using)
- Safety eyes
- H hook (5mm)
- Tapestry needle for weaving in the ends.
- Polyfill
💭 Abbreviations to Remember (US Terms)
- Magic ring (mr)
- Single crochet (sc)
- Increase (inc) - 2 stitches in the same stitch
- Chains (ch)
- Decrease (dec) - 1 stitch combining 2 stitches
- Double crochet (dc)
🧋 Variations
I made my bat purple, but you can use any color! You can also use this pattern as a base for a Moth Man if you wanted, just make the ears a bit taller and rounded at the top for antennas and then don't add the little spikey bumps in the last row of the bat wings.
🍵 Instructions for Free Amigurumi Bat Pattern
Body:
This section of the pattern starts at the head and ends at the end of the body.
Round 1: Ch x6 (6), ch 1 and turn.
Round 2: Inc, sc x4, inc, turn to the unworked side of the chain and in the same stitch on the end make another inc, sc x4, inc. (16)
Round 3: Inc, sc x6, inc x2, sc x6, inc. (20)
Round 4: Sc, inc, sc x6, inc, sc x2, inc, sc x6, inc, sc. (24)
Round 5: Sc x2, inc, Sc x2, inc x2, sc x2, inc, sc x4, inc, sc x2, inc x2, sc x2, inc, sc x2. (32)
Round 6 -9: Sc in every stitch. (32)
Round 10: Inc, then sc x15. Then repeat for every round. (34)
Round 11: Sc in every stitch. (34)
Round 12: Inc, then sc x16. Then repeat for every round. (36)
Round 13: Sc in every stitch. (36)
Round 14: Dec, then sc x4. Then repeat for every round. (30) Think about placing the eyes and securing them.
Round 15: Dec, then sc x3. Then repeat for every round. (24)
Round 16: Dec, then sc x2. Then repeat for every round. (18). Stuff the head fully before moving onto the body.
Round 17: Dec, then sc. Then repeat for every round. (12)
Round 18: Inc, then sc. Then repeat for every round. (18)
Round 19: Inc, then sc x2. Then repeat for every round. (24)
Round 20: Inc, then sc x3. Then repeat for every round. (30)
Round 21: Inc, then sc x4. Then repeat for every round. (36)
Round 22-23: Sc in every stitch. (36)
Round 24: Dec, then sc x10. Then repeat for every round. (33)
Round 25: Sc in every stitch. (33)
Round 26: Dec, then sc x9. Then repeat for every round. (30)
Round 27: Sc in every stitch. (30)
Round 28: Dec, then sc x8. Then repeat for every round. (27)
Round 29: Sc in every stitch. (27)
Round 30: Dec, then sc x7. Then repeat for every round. (24).
Round 31: Sc in every stitch (24). Start stuffing the body and continue to stuff as you go.
Round 32: Dec, then sc x6. Then repeat for every round. (21)
Round 33: Sc in every stitch. (21)
Round 34: Dec, sc x5. Then repeat for every round. (18)
Round 35: Sc in every stitch. (18)
Round 36: Dec, sc x1. Then repeat for every round. (12)
Round 37: Dec x6 (6). Slip stitch, fasten off and sew shut.
Ears x2:
Round 1: Make a mr, and make sc x4 in the circle (4)
Round 2: Inc, sc. Then repeat for every round. (6)
Round 3: Inc, sc. Then repeat for every round. (9)
Round 4: Inc, sc x2. Then repeat for every round. (12). Slip stitch, fasten off and leave tail for sewing.
Wings:
The wings are made by making just one piece. It will be worked in a continuous spiral round not rows, and then folded in half to create the bat wing effect. When crocheting, the circle will not be perfectly flat, we are adding more increases than normal so it will bend and ripple (this allows the wings to make that U shape after we fold it).
Round 1: Make a mr, then ch x3, and proceed to make dc x15 into the mr circle. The 3 chains will act as a dc so for the next round only crochet into the top ch, not the bottom 2. (16)
Round 2: Dc inc x 16 (32)
Round 3: Dc inc, dc. Then repeat for every round. (48)
Round 4: Dc inc, dc x2. Then repeat for every round. (64)
Round 5: Dc inc, dc x3. Then repeat for every round. (80)
Round 6: Dc inc, dc x4. Then repeat for every round. (96)
Round 7: Fold wing in half. Ch 1, sc around the entire edge. (48)
Round 8: Ch x3, turn dc in the same stitch, [sc x5, (dc, ch, dc in the same stitch)], Repeat what’s in the brackets for the rest of the round (66). Slip stitch, fasten off and leave tail for sewing.
Sewing:
Sew each ear onto the top of the head.
Sew the bat wing to the middle of the back on the body portion of the bat. I typically move the long sewing tail from the side of the wing to the middle by weaving it in between the rounds stitches along the folded top. Secure it by making a hidden embroidery type knot so the yarn doesn't get tighter and fold up the wing. I then tack it along the back at various points to secure the wings.
Once the wings and ears are on you can embroider a mouth if you haven't done so already.
And now you have a beautiful handmade bat plush! You can make more and have an army of bat plushies at your disposal. I hope you enjoyed making this easy crochet bat with me!
🧵 Pattern FAQs
Its all one piece so the head is securely crocheted to the body versus sewing where the head can eventually loosen and rip apart over time and hard playing.
Yup! You can follow the increase sequence and just add more rows.
Once I am almost done making the head, I stuff the head slightly and then take my safety eyes and place them where I think they would look best. I then leave the eyes in, take the stuffing out, and secure the eyes with the safety backs. I then restuff the head and finish it off.
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Free Amigurumi Bat Pattern
Materials
- 1 skein of lavender yarn from Red Heart or whatever color you prefer using
- Safety eyes
- 5mm crochet hook
- Tapestry needle
Abbreviations (US terms)
- mr = Magic ring
- sc = Single crochet
- inc = Increase
- dec = Decrease (1 stitch combining 2 stitches)
- dc = Double Crochet
Notes
- Base uses single crochet (sc) and double crochet (dc) for wings.
- For tighter stitches in sc, yarn under instead of over.
- This pattern can be adapted for a Moth Man by adjusting ear height and roundness for antennas and omitting spiky bumps in the last wing row.
Instructions
Body:
- This section of the pattern starts at the head and ends at the end of the body.
- Round 1: Ch x6 (6), ch 1 and turn.
- Round 2: Inc, sc x4, inc, turn to the unworked side of the chain and in the same stitch on the end make another inc, sc x4, inc. (16)
- Round 3: Inc, sc x6, inc x2, sc x6, inc. (20)
- Round 4: Sc, inc, sc x6, inc, sc x2, inc, sc x6, inc, sc. (24)
- Round 5: Sc x2, inc, Sc x2, inc x2, sc x2, inc, sc x4, inc, sc x2, inc x2, sc x2, inc, sc x2. (32)
- Round 6 -9: Sc in every stitch. (32)
- Round 10: Inc, then sc x15. Then repeat for every round. (34)
- Round 11: Sc in every stitch. (34)
- Round 12: Inc, then sc x16. Then repeat for every round. (36)
- Round 13: Sc in every stitch. (36)
- Round 14: Dec, then sc x4. Then repeat for every round. (30) Think about placing the eyes and securing them.
- Round 15: Dec, then sc x3. Then repeat for every round. (24)
- Round 16: Dec, then sc x2. Then repeat for every round. (18). Stuff the head fully before moving onto the body.
- Round 17: Dec, then sc. Then repeat for every round. (12)
- Round 18: Inc, then sc. Then repeat for every round. (18)
- Round 19: Inc, then sc x2. Then repeat for every round. (24)
- Round 20: Inc, then sc x3. Then repeat for every round. (30)
- Round 21: Inc, then sc x4. Then repeat for every round. (36)
- Round 22-23: Sc in every stitch. (36)
- Round 24: Dec, then sc x10. Then repeat for every round. (33)
- Round 25: Sc in every stitch. (33)
- Round 26: Dec, then sc x9. Then repeat for every round. (30)
- Round 27: Sc in every stitch. (30)
- Round 28: Dec, then sc x8. Then repeat for every round. (27)
- Round 29: Sc in every stitch. (27)
- Round 30: Dec, then sc x7. Then repeat for every round. (24).
- Round 31: Sc in every stitch (24). Start stuffing the body and continue to stuff as you go.
- Round 32: Dec, then sc x6. Then repeat for every round. (21)
- Round 33: Sc in every stitch. (21)
- Round 34: Dec, sc x5. Then repeat for every round. (18)
- Round 35: Sc in every stitch. (18)
- Round 36: Dec, sc x1. Then repeat for every round. (12)
- Round 37: Dec x6 (6). Slip stitch, fasten off and sew shut.
Ears x2:
- Round 1: Make a mr, and make sc x4 in the circle (4)
- Round 2: Inc, sc. Then repeat for every round. (6)
- Round 3: Inc, sc. Then repeat for every round. (9)
- Round 4: Inc, sc x2. Then repeat for every round. (12). Slip stitch, fasten off and leave tail for sewing.
Wings:
- The wings are made by making just one piece. It will be worked in a continuous spiral round not rows, and then folded in half to create the bat wing effect. When crocheting, the circle will not be perfectly flat, we are adding more increases than normal so it will bend and ripple (this allows the wings to make that U shape after we fold it).
- Round 1: Make a mr, then ch x3, and proceed to make dc x15 into the mr circle. The 3 chains will act as a dc so for the next round only crochet into the top ch, not the bottom 2. (16)
- Round 2: Dc inc x 16 (32)
- Round 3: Dc inc, dc. Then repeat for every round. (48)
- Round 4: Dc inc, dc x2. Then repeat for every round. (64)
- Round 5: Dc inc, dc x3. Then repeat for every round. (80)
- Round 6: Dc inc, dc x4. Then repeat for every round. (96)
- Round 7: Fold wing in half. Ch 1, sc around the entire edge. (48)
- Round 8: Ch x3, turn dc in the same stitch, [sc x5, (dc, ch, dc in the same stitch)], Repeat what’s in the brackets for the rest of the round (66). Slip stitch, fasten off and leave tail for sewing.
Sewing:
- Sew each ear onto the top of the head.
- Sew the bat wing to the middle of the back on the body portion of the bat. I typically move the long sewing tail from the side of the wing to the middle by weaving it in between the rounds stitches along the folded top. Secure it by making a hidden embroidery type knot so the yarn doesn't get tighter and fold up the wing. I then tack it along the back at various points to secure the wings.
- Once the wings and ears are on you can embroider a mouth if you haven't done so already.
- And now you have a beautiful handmade bat plush! You can make more and have an army of bat plushies at your disposal. I hope you enjoyed making this easy crochet bat with me!
Jana Lee says
The instructions for the wings do not indicate that it is not worked in the round. There needs to be something added to the end that states you turn and go back around in rows.
KimberlyArenas says
Hi! The bat wing is supposed to be worked in a continuous spiral round and then folded over to create the bat wing effect. I have updated that part of the instructions so it reads clearer, Thank you for bringing it to my attention!