Five Cheeky Monkeys Printable Puppets… and a Crocodile too!

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

In case you don’t know the words, here is the version of the song we sing:

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.

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!