Monkey Craft for Kids

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Get ready to add a playful touch to your reading adventures with a charming bookmark monkey craft! If your child is an avid reader, this project is the perfect way to bring a touch of whimsy to storytime. And if you have a child who is learning to read, the monkey craft might be just what they need to inspire them as they build their very own bookmark.

With just a few simple materials, you can create these adorable monkey crafts—bookmarks that will hang onto your pages and add a fun element to your reading routine. Let’s swing into the world of crafts and let your child unleash some imagination with this delightful bookmark monkey craft!

List of Supplies for Monkey Craft:

1. Colored craft paper
2. Pencil
3. Black Sharpie
4. Scissors
5. Craft glue
6. Monkey Craft Template (opens in new window)

Instructions for Monkey Craft:

Step 1:

Select cream, brown, and pink craft paper for the bookmark monkey craft. Trace the body base, tail, and hands onto brown craft paper. Then trace the inner ear parts on pink craft paper. Finally, trace the rest of the patterns (hands, feet, ears, face, and belly) on cream craft paper.

Cut out the traced patterns. If your child is old enough or is adept in cutting, he can do this part of the activity. Otherwise, you might want to do the cutting part and let your child focus on the steps of gluing/pasting.

Step 2:

Now, you’ll want to glue the face cut-out to the middle of the head part attached to the body base.

Step 3:

Next, glue the feet cut-outs onto the underside of the leg parts attached to the body base.

Step 4:

Glue the belly cut-out to the middle of the belly part of the monkey body base. Attach the tail pattern on the under-side of either side of the base.

Step 5:

Glue the inner ear parts in the middle of the main ear patterns. Then, attach the hand cut-outs to the arm patterns.

Step 6:

Attach the ear patterns on the two sides of the head, along the top end.

Step 7:

Glue only the top end of the paper arm patterns on both sides of the paper monkey body base. These little arms will be the bookmark, allowing the monkey craft to “hang on” to the story your child is reading.

Step 8:

Glue the other arm. Finally, use a permanent marker to draw the eyes, nose, and mouth of the paper monkey. You might want to do the drawing part yourself, or if your child wants to try out drawing a monkey face, you can let her do this part of the activity.

Additional Activities:

Hopefully, this fun bookmark monkey craft will inspire your child during reading practice as well as with other creative playtime. Here are a few other fun and creative bookmark craft projects:

• These planet bookmarks are ideal for the outer space enthusiast in your family! The same goes for these rocket bookmarks, and your child can choose their favorite color to make their very own personalized papercraft rocket!
• For animal lovers, these parrot bookmarks or this cute antelope bookmark would make the ideal craft afternoon, giving the glue just enough time to dry before your evening reading hour.
• And speaking of reading, here are 10 reasons to try family reading in your household. What better way to bond as a family and encourage love of learning as well as stimulate your child’s imagination?
• Do you have a reluctant reader? Here are some tried and proven tips for helping your child learn to love reading.

One thing I have learned from personal experience is that if a child is not so excited about reading time, it can help to have a fun snack to go along with your reading hour. Here are a few ideas:

• These tasty M&M cookies are gluten-free and would make a fun baking project with your kids, as well as a great reading time snack.
• And for chocolate lovers, you can’t beat this triple chocolate chunk honey pecan cookie recipe!
• This monkey bread recipe goes along nicely with the monkey craft you learned how to do in today’s post.

Recommended Books

And last but definitely not least, here are a few book recommendations on the topic of monkeys. (These links are affiliate links, which help to keep our website running with new content regularly. Thanks for your support!)

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