Free Printable Monster Puppets
These adorable, free printable, monster puppets, and fun monster counting song, are perfect for singing along with your child, or use them for storytelling or imaginative play!
These funny little monsters make a great Halloween activity, and they are a fun way for kids to explore the idea of monsters in a non-threatening, playful way, which can help them overcome any fears too.
Puppets are great fun for singing, story telling and more, find lots more free printable puppets here.
When my youngest child was a toddler he developed a sudden and intense fear of monsters. We didn’t know where this sudden and intense fear had come from, and nothing we did seemed to make it any better. Reassuring him that monsters were not real had no effect, and all the books we found about children overcoming their fear of monsters were too old for him, so I decided to make some monsters puppets so he could work through his fears through play.
These five bright, colourful, silly, friendly looking monster puppets were a huge hit with my toddlers, as were the funny monster counting songs we sang together.
We let my toddler play with the monster puppets for a long time. He’d often pick them up and give them voices, or even build houses from them out of blocks. And while these cute little puppets were not a magic cure to his fear of monsters (time and maturity helped a lot!) being able to ‘play out’ his fears in a safe way for him really helped.
Get the full set of monster puppets including the monster puppets, a large bed prop, and 3 different monster song/poem posters, all in colour and black and white. Plus a matching set of monster number cards, and a bonus roll and cover monster to encourage more number exploration and learning.
Find the full Monster Puppets and Counting Song Set in our Shop, on sale for just $2
Make Your Own Monster Puppets
These fun monster puppets and the silly monster counting songs are now a hit will all the preschoolers I know, and they are so easy to make!
All you need to make this monster puppet craft is the printable template (download below), some craft sticks and some tape.
Print the monster puppets onto some cardstock and cut out each one. Or you could use regular printer paper and laminate the puppets after you have cut them out. Tape a craft stick to the back of each monster and you are ready to sing some monster songs, use them for story telling, or for imaginative play!
I enlisted the help of the big kids. Big brother drew a fun backdrop for the puppet play, and the big sisters came up with a story that showed the monsters being funny and doing normal every day, not scary, things. The big kids put on a silly ‘monster puppet show’ for their little brother.
Sing a Monster Counting Song.
These little monster puppets are perfect for singing along and acting out a fun counting song!
If you know the song ‘Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed’ you’ll recognise this fun monster song!
Five Little Monsters Jumping on the Bed.
Five little monsters jumping on my bed.
One fell off and bumped his head!
I called to Mama and Mama said,
“No more monsters jumping on the bed!”
Four little monsters jumping on my bed…
Three little monsters jumping on my bed…
Two little monsters jumping on my bed…
One little monster jumping on my bed.
He fell off and bumped his head!
I called to Mama and Mama said,
“That’s what you get for jumping on the bed!”
We also love this cute little monster poem.
Five Little Monsters
This little monster has a big red nose
This little monster has bright green toes.
This little monster plays all night.
This little monster is such a fright.
And this little monster says
“Tee-hee-hee”
“I’m not scary, I’m just silly me.”
Free Printable Monster Puppet Templates
If you have your own monster fears, or perhaps you are celebrating Halloween, or maybe you just want to play with these cute monsters and sing some fun songs – you can make your own monster puppets with our free printable template.
There are five fun and friendly monsters in this free printable monster puppet set, plus a colourful song words poster to go with them.
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. It will fit to print on US ‘letter sized’ paper, just be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options to allow for printer margins.
Click here to download the monster puppets and song words poster
Please remember that the printables at picklebums.com are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files.
More Monster Activities and Ideas for Kids
Get the full set of monster puppets which includes the monster puppets in colour and black and white so you can colour them in!
The set also includes 3 different monster song/poem posters, all in colour and black and white, a matching set of monster number cards, and a bonus roll and cover monster to encourage more number exploration and learning!
Find the full Monster Puppets and Counting Song Set in our Shop, on sale for just $2
And if you are looking for even more fun monster activities, try one of these fun ideas:
Have fun with these free printable monster playdough mats!
Try these super fun, free printable monster drawing prompts.
Try this easy, no-bake Monster rice krispie treats recipe.
These are perfect! I have one scaredy boy and he’s influencing his little brother. AAHH! I don’t need two of them being scared of ‘the monsters’. Fingers crossed these help. But if they don’t I’m going to print them for me!!
Hey Kate, I have actually been following you through Planning Queen. Your printables are terrific! How do you create these printables? Anyway, I love the lunchbox printables and now I am preparing for my boy’s 6th bday party tomorrow, I decided to print these monsters for the kids to play. I am a last minute mum.. I bet the kids will love them. A big thank you for your kind free printables :)
I hope the party is a success, I am totally a last minute Mum too! LOL
I hand draw almost all of my printables, then use illustrator and photoshop to convert them to a digital version ready for a pdf. :)
I just stumbled upon your website last night and I have fallen in love!!!!!!
Thank you
These are so appealing – and what a great way to deal with fears! Thanks for sharing:)
Very cute, thank you!
Thank you so much! These look great. :)
Thank you!!!! These will come to good use for my son’s monster party. This is the first site I found where not only are the printables great quality, free, and actually easy to print out.
loved these little monsters–especially since i have 5 grandchildren! i am going to make stick puppets of each child’s picture and use it with this rhyme:
Five little monsters who had never seen a child…
— came walking in and one went wild!
Four little monsters who had never seen a child…
— came walking in and another one went wild!
Three little monsters who had never seen a child…
— came walking in and another one went wild!
Two little monsters who had never seen a child…
— came walking in and another one went wild!
One little monster who had never seen a child…
— came walking in and the last one went wild!
Poor little monsters—all as scared as they could be…
Then the children smiled and there were 10 friends to see!
thanks so much for your generosity and inspiration!
I have a pre-K class and we just love monsters, especially the Ed Emberly books. Thank you for cute monsters that are not scary.
Thought of a little song….
Five scary/grumpy/noisey monsters stomping along
One got tickled (tickle a child)
Now he’s gone
Four scary…… and so on
I am making my son a big craft box for his birthday with lots of pre-prepped ideas that we can do together. Just wanted to let you know how great your site is and how many awesome ideas you have given me and especially how great the printables are. Thanks!!
So glad to hear they are useful! What a great idea for a present! I hope your son has a great birthday.
Thank you for sharing! My little girls are going to be thrilled to play with these!!
Cheers for these beautiful resources . Well done . Lovely graphics