Make these fun five cheeky monkeys printable puppets (and a crocodile too!) so you can sing all your favourite cheeky monkey songs with your kids!
Kids of all ages love singing along to these silly counting songs with these fun puppets, and they are great way to work on counting skills, language skills and more.
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Five Cheeky Monkeys Swinging in a Tree and Five Cheeky Monkey’s Jumping on the Bed – Do you know these fun counting songs?
Everyone loves these fun songs with the cheeky monkeys who keep getting into trouble, whether that is because they are jumping on the bed, or because they are teasing Mr Crocodile!
Use these fun free cheeky monkeys printable puppets to act out the songs and count the monkeys!
Or you could use these monkey puppets to act out a story. They would be a great way to add some fun to the classic Caps for Sale story.
Here’s a quick video to show the puppets in action
Using puppets to act out songs and stories is a fun way to keep kids engaged, and a great way to work on language skills. You can use these puppets as a group time activity, or as a fun activity to for one or two children to act out songs or stories, or create their own story to go with the puppets.
Have fun singing crazy monkey songs and making crazy monkey (and a crocodile) puppet shows.
Five Cheeky Monkeys Swinging in a Tree Song
I think kids love this song so much because it’s so much fun to make funny faces when the monkeys tease Mr Crocodile!
In case you don’t know the words, here is the version of the song we sing:
Five cheeky monkeys swinging in the tree,
teasing Mr. Crocodile,
“You can’t catch me! You can’t catch me!”
Along came Mr. Crocodile as quiet as can be and…
Snap!
He ate him up for tea!
Four cheeky monkeys swinging in the tree…
Three cheeky monkeys swinging in the tree…
Two cheeky monkeys swinging in the tree…
One cheeky monkeys swinging in the tree,
teasing Mr. Crocodile,
“You can’t catch me… You can’t catch me!”
Along came Mr. Crocodile as quiet as can be and…
Snap!
“You missed me! You missed me!”
We made a tree for our monkeys out of a cardboard tube with some slits in the side so we could poke the puppet’s sticks into the slits and have the monkeys in the tree. We made paper palm fronds to poke out the top of the cardboard tube, and stuck it to our table with a lump of play dough.
Then we made a river for the crocodile with some blue paper and some stones, and we were ready to sing and act out the song with the puppets!
Five Cheeky Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Song
Of course you can’t make monkey puppets and not sing about them jumping on the bed!
Five Cheeky Monkeys Jumping on the Bed is another great counting song that has some mischievous monkeys who never seem to listen!
Here are the words we sing for this fun song, or you can see a quick glimpse of us singing it in the video at the start of this post.
Five cheeky monkeys jumping on the bed
One fell off and bumped his head
Mama called the doctor,
And the doctor said,
‘No more monkeys jumping on the bed!’
Four cheeky monkeys jumping on the bed…
Three cheeky monkeys jumping on the bed…
Two cheeky monkeys jumping on the bed…
One cheeky monkeys jumping on the bed
They fell off and bumped their head.
Mama called the doctor,
and the doctor said,
‘That’s what you get for jumping on the bed!’
We made a simple bed out of some folded baby blankets and had lots of fun bouncing out cheeky monkeys all over the bed and counting them as they fell off!
Five Cheeky Monkey Printable Puppets
If you’d like your own handful of monkeys (and a crocodile), you can make a set of our cheeky monkey printable puppets.
To make the puppets simply download the pdf file below, print it and cut out the monkeys and crocodile.
You can use regular printer paper, or card stock to print onto, we often use matte photo paper for really vibrant colours. We use a basic deskjet printer for all our printable.
Tape a craft stick to the back of each monkey, or you could hot glue a wooden peg on to the back instead, and you are ready to sing!
You can download the five cheeky monkeys printable puppets here.
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. If you are printing on US ‘letter sized’ paper be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options.
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 Preschool Counting Songs and Puppets!
If your kids love counting songs, or making puppet shows, then they’ll love all these fun, free printable puppets!
So clever Kate – love it! My kids will love this one, including the song that goes with it (never heard that one before). So adorable :-)
those monkeys are so cute!!!
I love these printables! I am trying to print off the Monkey one and it wont let me print it always says there’s an error. Any suggestions?
hmm perhaps something happened to the file when you downloaded it. Have you try downloading it again?
If that is no good send me an email via the contact form and I’ll sort something out :)
Love, love, love these!!! Thank you so much for sharing…can’t wait to print them for my sweet little niece and nephew since my two “babies” are 12 and 17!
I don’t get to say thanks nearly as much as I’d like or should but thank you again for such simple, creative and fun things to do with the kids – I’m off to do this with Miss 2 now since we have a rare few hours of just us :)
I love these printables. This is my favourite song!! In our version the crocodile gets the monkey – “oh dear me” is the last line :)
Aww, so adorable! Love these! And the tree you made for the monkeys was great, we’ll have to make that too. Cute video by the way :)
Hi Kate,
Do you mind if we print these out & make up at our little playgroup here in Australia?
Thanks,
Rowena
That’s fine Rowena.
It’s ok for teachers and others to use any of my printables with their class or group, just as long as they don’t print them to sell ;)
Hope you enjoy them!
These are fantastic…. and the video is gorgeous.
So cute! My cheeky monkey’s will love these! Pinning now… printing when we have a printer ;)
I tweeted this, I hope you don’t mind! Mt son and daughter love this book and now we can act it out! Hooray!
Tiffany
You already know how much R and I LOVE your printables, right? Well 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed is one of his favourite songs! He’ll go crazy for these. We used to sing the monkeys and crocodile song but I’d forgotten about it. Thanks for the reminder.
I feel deprived :-/ I have never heard that monkey in the tree song… Very cute, ill have to teach Dimples with these adorable print outs
Thanks for sharing
They are the cutest monkeys ever! My little girl has just started making monkey sounds so these will be great for her. Thanks!
These are adorable! The girls are going to love them :-)
What FUN! My boys would love these… printing off this afternoon :-) Thanks so much for sharing!!
Hi there
My daughter is at daycare in the mornings and just starting singing the monkeys and the crocodile song so she’ll just love these printables!
Thanks so much for these – my daughter LOVES them!
Many Thanks for these printable’s Kate….just love them all. The printer, laminater and scissors have been working hard. As will my voice box soon as I sing with my children x
To end the song our group sings…. One cheeky doctor jumping on the bed, he fell off and bumped his head. Mummy phoned the monkeys, and the monkeys said, ‘that’s what you get for jumping on the bed’.