Do your kids love monkeys? If so, they’ll have a blast making their own paper plate monkey craft!

This easy kids’ craft is perfect for jungle animal school themes or for a jungle animal birthday party craft!

It’s super simple and it comes with a free printable template so it’s easy to make at home or in the classroom with preschool, kindergarten and elementary children.

We love paper plate crafts because they’re easy, cheap and quick to make!

Read our step by step directions or watch our short video tutorial to see how easy it is to make with your kids or students.

Monkey Craft For Preschool

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Supplies

• Paper plates
• Brown paint
• Colored card stock or construction paper (in tan and medium brown)
• White card stock
• Paintbrush
• Scissors
• Tape (optional)
• Glue stick
• Monkey template (download form located at the end of this page)

Directions

Download the free printable monkey template, print and cut out the pieces.

Paint the paper plate in a medium shade of brown acrylic paint. Let dry completely.

If you want to make the monkey’s ears from paper plates as well, you’ll need to paint 2 paper plates total for each monkey. In our example, we used card stock for the ears.

Glue the monkey’s face in the middle of the paper plate. Glue each eye in the space above the nose on each side.

Cut out the monkey’s ears from the second paper plate or the colored paper. Glue the tan inner ear to the brown outer ear. Repeat on both sides.

Secure the monkey’s completed ears to the top, backside of the paper plate. Whenever we need to secure something to the curved part of a paper plate, we use tape. It’s much easier for things to stick to it and there’s no wait time for the glue to dry.

If you don’t have tape, just make sure you use enough glue and let it dry completely before handling the craft.

That’s all you need to do to make this cute monkey craft!

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Jungle Animal Preschool Unit

If you’re making this monkey craft and want to turn it into a jungle animal preschool unit, we’ve got a few suggestions for you!

First are these jungle animal worksheets for preschoolers. This pack is great and helps kids with counting, ABCs, handwriting practice and more!

If your children love storytime, check out some of these best jungle animal books:

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Finally, wrap up your jungle theme with this rainforest sensory bin or this jungle-themed slime!

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