I don’t know what it is about monkeys, but I have always loved them and the kids do too!
Here’s what you need to make a pipe cleaner monkey:
- Brown pipe cleaners – 3 per monkey
- Wooden beads
- Googly eyes
- Hot glue http://everfreecoloring.com
- Brown felt
- Brown and tan acrylic paint
- Yellow pipe cleaners – for bananas
These are the wooden beads we used. Both sizes were purchased at Hobby Lobby. The larger ones do not have a hole all the way through, so they were perfect for the head. The smaller beads made the bodies of our monkeys. We painted them brown with a color that matched our pipe cleaners as closely as possible. I don’t think it matters to have it perfect, though!
I used tan paint to do the mouth part on each head. Then we started assembling the monkeys.
How to:
- Start with 3 pipe cleaners, and twist them together as shown below.
- The top three strands will be for the head and arms. The bottom three will make the legs and tail.
- Slide the body bead onto all three lower strands.
- Then start bending the pipe cleaner legs to make feet.
- The legs look best if they have a double layer of pipe cleaner. So form the feet, and then bend the excess upward. I either tucked the end into the body bead, or wrapped it around the monkey’s “waist” (below the bead). Just do whatever works.
- Then bend the arms.
- Cut the head strand so that you have just enough left to fold over to be a neck.
- Attach the head with a little hot glue. teenage mutant ninja turtles coloring pages
- Then cut tiny rounded ears out of felt. Glue those to the sides of the head.
Ta-da! Isn’t he cute? We used a short piece of a yellow pipe cleaner to make a banana. The monkey’s hands are posable, and he can hold things.
It’s fun to pose a monkey on the end of a pencil. Where else will your little monkey want to hang around?
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