**Note: This page is for educational inspiration and is not officially affiliated with the European Bat Conservation Trust (EUROBATS), which organises International Bat Night. For official information about bats and their conservation, please visit the EUROBATS website (www.eurobats.org) or your local bat conservation trust.
Saturday 29th - Sunday 30th August 2026
Understanding International Bat Night in EYFS & KS1
Swoop into action! International Bat Night is an annual event that takes place at the end of August across more than 30 countries to raise awareness about bats and their conservation. Organised by EUROBATS (Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats), it aims to dispel myths and highlight the vital role bats play in our ecosystem.
For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this event provides a fantastic opportunity to explore nocturnal animals, mammals, and conservation. It's about sparking curiosity, challenging misconceptions, and fostering an appreciation for these often-misunderstood creatures. International Bat Night offers engaging planning ideas and inspiration for activities that truly resonate with young minds, making learning about wildlife and biodiversity both intriguing and educational.
Why Is Teaching About Bats & Conservation Important for Young Children?
Integrating lessons about bats and their unique place in the natural world into your practice with young children (aged 0-7) is incredibly important for fostering scientific curiosity, ecological understanding, and a deep appreciation for all creatures. During their early years, children benefit from learning about a wide range of animals, including those that are less familiar or sometimes perceived negatively.
Challenging Stereotypes: Teaching about bats helps dispel common fears or misconceptions, promoting a more balanced view of these important animals.
Understanding Adaptations: Bats are unique mammals that can fly, offering a great example of animal adaptations (e.g., echolocation, nocturnal behaviour).
Ecosystem Roles: Learning about bats highlights their crucial roles, such as insect control and pollination, demonstrating how different species contribute to a healthy environment.
Conservation Awareness: Bats face threats like habitat loss, providing a concrete example of why conservation is important and how human actions impact wildlife.
Literacy and Numeracy: Bat themes naturally lend themselves to learning new vocabulary, counting, and pattern recognition, as seen in many of our animal resources.
Engaging Bat & Animal Activities for International Bat Night (0-7 Year Olds)
Make International Bat Night a truly fascinating experience with these planning ideas and activities perfect for EYFS and KS1 children. The focus is on discovery, creativity, and celebrating these incredible flying mammals and other nocturnal animals! Many of these early years and year 1 activities can be supported by the printable resources we have available.
Here's some inspiration for bringing the mystery and wonder of bats into your setting: (Please use your own discretion and knowledge of your children to ensure appropriateness of each activity and safety concerning any materials given and activity undertaken.)
Bat Movement & Role-Play: Encourage children to move like bats – flapping their "wings" (arms), and using "echolocation" (making clicking sounds and listening for echoes).
Bat Art & Mindfulness Colouring: Provide opportunities for children to draw or paint bats, focusing on their wings and unique faces. Our 'Bat - Colouring (Mindfulness)' is perfect for a calm, focused activity.
"What is a Bat?" Discussion: Use our 'Bat Pack' to explore facts about bats. Discuss what makes them unique mammals (they fly, they are nocturnal, they have fur, they give birth to live young).
Nocturnal Animal Focus: Extend the learning to other nocturnal animals. Create a "night-time" sensory bin with dark-coloured materials, glitter (for stars), and small toy nocturnal animals.
Counting Bats & Wings: Integrate numeracy by counting bat cut-outs, wings, or "insects" that bats eat. Our 'Animal Number Multimats - Playdough, Whiteboard & Pen or Loose Parts' are versatile for this.
Bat Word & Alphabet Games: Expand vocabulary related to bats and nocturnal animals. Explore the alphabet with our 'Animal Alphabet Horizontal Flashcards/Posters - Upper & Lower Case', 'Animal Alphabet/Initial Sound Puzzles', and 'Animal Alphabet Multimats - Playdough, Whiteboard & Pen or Loose Parts'. Try 'Animal Word Slice Puzzles - Phase 2 Sounds' for phonics fun.
Create a Bat Cave: Use blankets, cushions, and perhaps some dark fabric to create a cosy, dark "bat cave" where children can explore and learn quietly. You could hang paper bats from the ceiling.
Echolocation Game: Play a simple game to demonstrate echolocation. Blindfold a child (or have them close their eyes) and have them make a "click" sound while another child hides a sound-making object (like keys). The "bat" tries to locate the sound. (Ensure safety and supervision).
Conservation Discussion: Talk about why bats are important (e.g., eating mosquitoes) and what we can do to help them (e.g., not disturbing them, protecting their homes).
Planning Support: Don't forget to check out our 'Planning - Topic Plan Ideas - Animals' for broader context and more ideas.
These activities offer great inspiration for making International Bat Night a memorable and impactful experience in your early years and Key Stage One setting, fostering a sense of wonder for wild animals and the urgent need for their conservation.
To explore ideas surrounding additional early years events, please visit our 'Special Dates Calendar' page.
Printable resources to support teaching & learning surrounding: ‘International Bat Night’
Pack of 2 bat colouring sheets. Great for mindfulness practise!
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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The pages of this pack give some general information about bats and some fun and engaging activities to foster and develop children’s interest in them.
Pack includes:
• Fact posters x3 (Could be used as stimuli for a lesson input)
• Number slice activity (1-10) (Can be pre-cut for a pure number ordering activity or left to be cut by child to add scissor practice)
• Number slice activity - colouring version (1-10) (As above but to be coloured before cutting)
• Description sheet (Can be used as an independent writing activity or with an adult scribing the ideas of a younger child)
• A4 poster
• A4 poster - colouring version
• ‘Body Parts’ x3 (fully labelled, initial sounds only, blank)
• Draw and write sheets x3 (blank sheet, wide lines and narrow lines)
• 1x 4-piece puzzle
• Multimats x2 (for Colouring/Art & Craft/Loose Parts/Playdough)
Keywords: puzzles, activity, activities, facts, information, endangered, non-fiction, nonfiction, non fiction, problem solving, bat, mammals
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Pack of 2 bat colouring sheets. Great for mindfulness practise!
Fine Motor, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Pencil Control, Take Home, Endangered Animals, Activity, Print Carries Meaning, Observational Skills, Colouring, Art and Craft, Bat, Mammals
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Mega pack of Animal colouring pictures…49 sheets of individual animals to colour including their names.
Great for fine motor, observational skills, colour choice and becoming aware that text has meaning.
Colouring, Fine Motor, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Pencil Control, Take Home, Activity, Discussion Prompts, Print Carries Meaning, Cow, Donkey, Deer, Goat, Goose, Chicken, Duck, Dog, Pig, Sheep, Horse, Anteater, Yak, Vulture, Umbrella Bird, Quail, Octopus, Narwhal, Kangaroo, Jellyfish, Iguana, Penguin, Banded Penguin, Sea Lion, Zebra, Wolf, Rhinos, Lion, Meerkat, Komodo Dragon, Giraffe, Flamingo, Elephant, Chimpanzee, Frog, Fox, Robin, Tiger, Rabbit, Cat, Ox, Cockerel, Hen, Swallow, Squirrel, Dormouse, Hedgehog, Bat, Mouse, Badger, Slow Worm, Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, Invertebrate
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These A4 size mats can be laminated for use as playdough mats, or for number writing practice with a whiteboard pen. Alternatively, they can be part of a loose parts activity.
Counting, Fine Motor, Laminate to use with w/b pens, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Maths, Number Lines, Number Formation, Number Recognition and Ordering, Playdough/Loose Part Mats, Posters/Displays, Activity, Wolf, Chimpanzee, Cow, Dog, Elephant, Tiger, Goat, Horse, Iguana, Mouse, Kangaroo, Lion, Octopus, Bat, Robin, Pig, Quail, Rabbit, Squirrel, Frog, Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Invertebrate
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Animal Alphabet flashcards/posters. Three cards to an A4 page. Great for exploring world animals and identifying initial sounds alongside knowledge of the alphabet. Please note that the only letter which is not depicted by an initial sound is ‘x’, which we felt would best be demonstrated to children in ‘fox’.
11 additional VARITAIONS OF THIS PACK AVAILABLE HERE. Including size of cards, orientation, upper and lower case letters. Plus initial sound game and puzzles.
Cards/Flashcards, Alphabet, Ordering Activities, Phonics, Posters/Displays, Reading, Sound Cards, Discussion Prompts, Anteater, Bat, Cow, Dog, Elephant, Frog, Goat, Horse, Iguana, Jellyfish, Kangaroo, Lion, Meerkat, Narwhal, Octopus, Pig, Quail, Rabbit, Squirrel, Tiger, Umbrella Bird, Vulture, Wolf, Fox, Yak, Zebra, Mammals, Birds, Invertebrate, Reptiles, Amphibians, Animal Alphabet/Initial Sounds
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Animals to be matched with their initial sound (apart from ‘x’ which we felt would be best demonstrated to children using the final sound in ‘fox’). Each puzzle connection is unique to allow children to self-correct.
Alphabet, Games, Fine Motor, Matching Activities, Observational Skills, Problem Solving, Phonics, Puzzles, Reading, Activity, Group Activity, Using Shapes for Task, Animal Phonics, Anteater, Bat, Cow, Dog, Elephant, Frog, Amphibians, Mammals, Reptiles, Birds, Invertebrate, Goat, Horse, Iguana, Jellyfish, Kangaroo, Lion, Meerkat, Narwhal, Octopus, Pig, Quail, Rabbit, Squirrel, Tiger, Umbrella Bird, Vulture, Wolf, Fox, Yak, Zebra, Animal Alphabet/Initial Sounds
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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These A4 size mats can be laminated for use as playdough mats, or for letter writing practice with a whiteboard pen. Alternatively, they can be part of a loose parts activity.
The first stage is for children to hear the sound that each letter makes in the corresponding animal names. In this set the sounds are all at the beginnings of each word, i.e. the initial sounds (apart from fox which is the final sound to ensure the x makes the relevant sound). At this stage the children will enjoy moulding playdough onto the shapes of the letters and using loose parts lined up to make the letter shapes. This helps to familiarise children with the letters, recognise them and assign sounds to them.
During the final stage, children may express an interest in using mark making tools (a whiteboard pen if you have already laminated the sheet for playdough use) to start to practise fine motor skills and form the letters.
Alphabet, Fine Motor, Laminate to use with w/b pens, Letter Formation, Mark Making/Drawing/Writing, Pencil Control, Playdough/Loose Part Mats, Posters/Displays, Phonics, Reading, Sound Mats, Activity, Zoo, Anteater, Bat, Cow, Dog, Elephant, Frog, Goat, Horse, Iguana, Jellyfish, Kangaroo, Lion, Meerkat, Narwhal, Octopus, Pig, Quail, Rabbit, Squirrel, Tiger, Umbrella Bird, Vulture, Wolf, Fox, Yak, Zebra, Birds, Mammals, Amphibians, Reptiles, Invertebrate, Animal Alphabet/Initial Sounds
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Cut along the vertical lines on these Animal themed word slice puzzles which use phase 2 sounds and allow your children to blend sounds to reveal the complete word and picture as they place the pieces in the right order! Mainly CVC words. Great for fine motor, problem solving, observational skills and phonics/letters and sounds knowledge, blending & segmenting! Cut and stick use once activity or laminate to use time and time again.
Fine Motor, Games, Letters & Sounds - Phase 2, Observational Skills, Phonics, Problem Solving, Puzzles, Reading, Scissor Skills, Activity, Bat, Ant, Pig, Dog, Cat, Hen, Frog, Duck
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Place as an ‘invitation to play’ as part of continuous provision and/or use as prompts during an adult led activity as follows:
Print and laminate the cards being mindful not to leave pointy corners.
Set up the two sets of animal cards. Choose one of the animals and say its name out loud, e.g. “Owl!”
Then say to the child “Can you find the other owl?”
Help the child through a matching game, whilst reinforcing the names of the animals.
Ideal for 1-2 year olds, but use of cards can be adapted for different age groups.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Set of high Contrast black and white silhouette cards for ‘Nocturnal Animals’ theme. Perfect addition to your continuous provision surrounding this topic.
We have included a variety of cards in this pack for various purposes. The large high contrast images are well suited for visual tracking with babies and for decoration and displays. Our smaller cards are ideal for use with slightly older children in problem solving matching and sorting activities, either left out as an ‘invitation to play’ or as a more adult directed activity.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Set of cards and mats for sorting of nocturnal and diurnal animals. A great addition to your continuous provision for a ‘Nocturnal Animals’ theme. The printables can either be left out as an ‘invitation to play’ or set up as a more adult directed activity. Children may use the materials in a very different way to expected, e.g. for small world role-play using the mats as back drops or as prompts for making animal sounds.
Possible adult directed activity:
- Print and laminate the cards being mindful not to leave pointy corners.
- Children to think about when different animals are awake and sort them according to Day and Night.
- Practitioners can choose between colour coded animals for extra scaffolding or uniformly coloured animals for additional challenge.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Nocturnal animals tally sheet designed for aiding the development of early data representation skills.
Possible adult directed activity:
- Print several sets of the page of animal cards, fold them along the middle and then laminate them, being mindful not to leave pointy corners. (Or use your own nocturnal animal props.) Use the quantity of each animal you think is appropriate for your child(ren).
- Spread the cards out face down. Children to take turns turning over a card and then marking it on their tally chart. When all cards are turned, children to count totals and see which one they turned over the most.
- Variations include placing animals (cards or small world toys) around your setting or in a tuff tray for children to find and then make marks on the tally chart.
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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This pack contains some activity ideas for learning about ANIMALS as well as some blank forms for you to note down your own ideas.
Staring at a blank page when planning can be difficult so we hope that even if you don’t end up using our exact suggestions, they will be a spark of inspiration for your own great ideas when planning for your children.
(For additional ‘Animals’ themed resources visit our ‘ANIMALS’ PAGE.)
Original artwork drawn by Sara Murphy and final digital resources created by Stuart Murphy. COPYRIGHT ON ALL OF THE RESOURCES HOUSED ON THIS WEBSITE IS HELD BY ‘LITTLE OWLS RESOURCES’. OUR RESOURCES (INCLUDING THE IMAGES WITHIN THEM), CANNOT BE SHARED OR SOLD COMMERCIALLY.
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Additional Pages you may like to explore which cover relevant &/or Connected themes
CLICK HERE to visit the ‘BEACH SCHOOL’ PAGE.
Printable ‘Beach’ teaching and learning resources include: scavenger hunts/checklists, mindfulness activity cards, cockle shell age poster, senses booklets and prompts, colouring pages, drawing/writing/mark making sheets, shell multimats, playdough/ loose part mats, art and craft activities, templates, pattern cards, natural loose part art prompts/posters, shapes, pre-writing, rockpool fact cards, symmetry, activity/movement challenges, display lettering, sand play and more!
CLICK HERE to visit ‘LIFE CYCLES’ PAGE.
Printable ‘Life Cycle’ teaching and learning resources include: cyclic puzzles, frog, chicken, caterpillar/butterfly, ant/bean life cycle display packs, posters, cut and stick activities, banners, cards, playdough mats and more!
CLICK HERE to visit ‘ON THE FARM’ PAGE.
Printable ‘Farm’ related teaching and learning resources include: word mats/cards, banners, farm animals and the young/babies counting, puzzles, I spy activities, follow the lines pencil control, animal body part posters, multimats, playdough mats, loose part activities, art and craft, fine motor control, phase 1, 2 and 3 letters and sounds, animal colouring, number slice puzzles, pictogram, size ordering, matching and memory games, fact cards, picture snap, farm trip pack and more!
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This page is for educational purposes only and is intended to support early years and primary practitioners with ideas and resources related to 'International Bat Night'. We are not officially affiliated with or endorsed by the European Bat Conservation Trust (EUROBATS), which organises this event. We do not claim any rights to specific trademarks or official materials associated with this day. For official information, please refer to reputable online sources, and for broader bat conservation efforts, consider visiting the EUROBATS website at www.eurobats.org or your local bat conservation trust.
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