Monkey Craft

It's no secret Brodie's favorite animal is the monkey. To go along with our "M" theme this past week we did lots of monkey activities. Brodie was very excited to do this craft. I got the idea from here, and of course changed it up a bit to fit with what supplies I had on hand.

Here is what you will need. We didn't have any paper plates so I made ours out of construction paper. I cut out all the shapes and the boys glued the pieces together. I used 2 different colors of construction paper, scissors and glue. I used a marker to make the mouth and googly eyes. To go along with this craft we also read the book 5 Little Monkeys and the boys took turns looking at the Monkey Lapbook I made them last year.

Monkey Lapbook - Totbook

I made a new lapbook for Brodie thanks to Carisa at 1+1+1=1! She is so generous to post her templates when ever she makes a lapbook or totbook for her children.

This is the first bigger size lap book I have made Brodie. The others have all been half the size. There is definitely some areas that are a little old for him still, which is great he has something already made to grow in to.

The abc cards I kept in sets of 3 instead of cutting them all individually. I think what I will do is cut out the letters of his name and have him practice with those letters. I didn't put the lower case letters in the book yet. I will save those for a few months. The upper left corner is a sequencing game. The bottom left ia a "how many?" book. The upper and lower case alphabet are on the top right, then there is 5 Little Monkey game at the bottom. This was his favorite by far. He sang the whole song while he bounced the monkeys on the bed. Not familiar with this song? Go here. Then next to that is a "colors" book.I added the coloring page on the front. If you are interested in printing this totbook for your little one you can go here to get the pdf. Thank you Carisa once again for this awesome book!

I am also in the process of making the Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear Brown Bear, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Goodnight Moon totbooks. I will post them as soon as they are done!

M is for Monkey

The boys and I started the letter M this week. We have had fun talking about monkeys. Brodie has always loved monkeys and I have no idea why. We have quite the collection of stuffed monkeys. They came in handy when we sat down to sing the "5 Little Monkeys" song. Each of the boys held a monkey in each hand and I had one. They would bounce them up and down as we sang. We also colored this picture to go along with the song. We also made this monkey paper craft. Of course Brodie had to show me his monkey face while taking the picture!