Fruit Bat Puppet

by Folkmanis

$56.90 ~~$70.95~~ /

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A flying fox swoops in with 51cm wings wide open, ready to talk.

🦇 Wide wingspan – movable wings open to 51cm, so every swoop and flap is easy to see from across the room
🎭 Instant storytelling – a foxlike face with short snout and pointy ears gives the character a clear personality from the first hello
✋ Hand control – a hand puppet that asks fingers and wrist to work together to move the head and wings
🤫 Quiet play – no batteries, no sounds, so voices and stories do all the work
🧸 Light weight – around 64g and 23cm tall, easy for small arms to hold up through a whole puppet show
📚 Book partner – sits naturally alongside bat stories like Stellaluna for retelling and role play

The Educator's Note

The 51cm movable wings give children a clear, visible way to show emotion and action, which supports longer, more detailed storytelling than a static character.
Operating a hand puppet builds finger and wrist coordination, the same control children draw on for pencil grip, while speaking through a character helps shy children practise language with less pressure.
Fruit bats are a real Australian animal, so the puppet links pretend play to nature learning and pairs naturally with books like Stellaluna for retelling and sequencing.

Play Specifications

🧒 3 years +

Recommended for ages 3 years +

📖 Storyteller

Role Play & Imagination

🔇 Silent

No sound

👤 Independent Play

Solo / Self-Correcting

👨‍👩‍👧 Parent Involvement

Guided / Scaffolding Required

🧳 Travel Friendly

Compact / Portable / Car-Friendly

🗣️ Language

Speech & Vocabulary

🤏 Fine Motor

Precision & Grip

💡 Creativity

Innovation & Imagination

The Educator's Note

The 51cm movable wings give children a clear, visible way to show emotion and action, which supports longer, more detailed storytelling than a static character.
Operating a hand puppet builds finger and wrist coordination, the same control children draw on for pencil grip, while speaking through a character helps shy children practise language with less pressure.
Fruit bats are a real Australian animal, so the puppet links pretend play to nature learning and pairs naturally with books like Stellaluna for retelling and sequencing.

Play Specifications

🧒 3 years +

📖 Storyteller

🔇 Silent

👤 Independent Play

👨‍👩‍👧 Parent Involvement

🧳 Travel Friendly

🗣️ Language

🤏 Fine Motor

💡 Creativity

Slip a hand inside and this fruit bat comes to life, wings opening wide across 51cm. It works for solo chats, bedtime stories and full puppet shows, with no batteries and no noise to manage. Built for children at 3 years and up, it supports the preschool stage of storytelling and pretend play, when children start inventing characters, giving them voices and acting out scenes from favourite books.

Also available in a great value bundle

Best suited to children who love animals, stories and giving characters a voice.

Preschoolers aged 3 to 5 years building vocabulary and starting to act out simple stories with a beginning, middle and end
Quiet or shy children aged 3 to 6 years who find it easier to speak, answer questions or practise new words through a character
Children aged 5 to 6 years who enjoy putting on shows for family, retelling picture books or performing at show-and-tell
Parents, grandparents and teachers looking for a nature-themed puppet to pair with bat stories, a night animals topic or a library visit

Meet the Flying Fox

This Folkmanis fruit bat, also known as a flying fox, has a foxlike face, a short snout and pointy ears. It reads as friendly straight away, which matters for a puppet. Children respond to a character they can relate to, and this one invites a voice before you've even said hello.

The wings are the feature that earns the puppet its place. They are movable and open to 51cm wide, so a small flap, a swoop across the lounge or a wing tucked around a shy hand all look different and tell a different story.

Where Language and Confidence Grow

Puppet play is one of the most reliable ways to build spoken language and sequencing. Children who hesitate to answer a question will often speak freely through a puppet. You'll hear longer sentences, new vocabulary and the beginnings of dialogue as they switch between their own voice and the bat's. At 3 they'll make it talk and flap; by 5 or 6 they're scripting scenes with a beginning, middle and end.

Operating a hand puppet also builds hand control. Moving the head and wings while holding a character steady takes coordination between fingers and wrist, the same fine-motor control that supports a comfortable pencil grip at school.

From Bedtime Stories to Backyard Science

Fruit bats are nocturnal, eat fruit and nectar, and are common in parts of Australia, so this puppet connects directly to real animals your child may have seen at dusk. It is a natural partner for stories like Stellaluna, Bats at the Beach and Nightsong, giving children a way to retell the story rather than just listen to it.

It weighs roughly 64g and stands about 23cm tall, so it's light enough for young arms to hold up for a whole show. Spot clean only, then it's ready for the next performance, whether that's a solo chat on the bed or a puppet theatre with siblings and friends.

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Why gift givers choose this

Teacher Vetted by our educator for language, storytelling and hand-control value
Wings That Move for expressive, visible character play across 51cm
Silent and Battery-Free so it suits car rides, waiting rooms and bedtime
Real Animal Connection that links pretend play to fruit bats found in the wild
Grows With Them from simple talking at 3 years to scripted shows by 5 or 6