Cartoon bat wearing a striped party hat, smiling with wings open beside a round balloon.

Smiling Bat With Party Hat and Balloon

A cheerful little bat spreads both wings wide, grinning under a spotted party hat while holding a round balloon string.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Bat collection, made for ages 5–7 and drawn in a Cartoon style. A good pick for birthdays.

🎨 How to color it

Color the bat soft charcoal gray, the belly pale lavender, the party hat sunny yellow with teal stripes, and the balloon cherry red. Use chunky crayons or broad markers for the big wings and balloon, then switch to a sharpened pencil for the hat dots and tiny toes. Try making the balloon lighter on the shiny patch so it looks round and floaty beside the bat.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 28 zones and 6 colors, sized for kids. Tiny unnumbered slivers borrow the color of their neighbors, and the little model above shows the finished page whenever you want to check your work. More grids like this live in our color by number gallery.

Prefer classic line art? Open this drawing as a regular coloring page.

The story behind this coloring page

Jory’s Patient Party Puff — Under the lantern hall, Jory tied a balloon string to his small claw and invented the Quiet Puff Game. Read the full story →

Under the lantern hall, Jory tied a balloon string to his small claw and invented the Quiet Puff Game. He wanted to hear the secret sound inside the balloon, but the party drums went boom-boom and the paper hats went crinkle-crack.

So Jory waited. He held his wings wide and very still. At last the hall grew hushed, and the balloon made one tiny fffip. A cool, round patch of moonlight popped onto its side. “There you are,” Jory whispered. Ever since, bat balloons keep one pale shine for anyone patient enough to notice; can you find Jory holding the first quiet puff?