Monkey Zoo Animal Toilet Paper Roll Crafts for Kids

Monkeys are so much fun, aren’t they? And of course, Curious George is the most fun monkey of all! So, of course I had to include a monkey in the zoo animal toilet paper roll crafts for kids series. Read on to see how to make the monkey and check back tomorrow for another fun zoo animal toilet paper roll crafts for kids!

monkey zoo animal toilet paper crafts for kids

Monkey Zoo Animal Toilet Paper Roll Crafts for Kids

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Materials Needed:

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How to Make the Monkey Part One:

  • In a perfect world, you would be able to find craft rolls at the store that are already rolled in the color you want. However, in my experience, the available colors are rather limited. No worries.. it is surprisingly easy to cover the toilet paper roll in the color of paper you want.
    • You don’t want too much excess paper. Line the toilet paper roll up with the bottom edge of the construction paper or cardstock and make a small pencil mark line to denote the length of the toilet paper roll. Move the roll a few inches down the paper and do the same thing. Take a ruler or straight edge and draw a cut line.
    • ‘Wrap’ the construction paper around the toilet paper roll to determine how much paper you will need to cover the roll, but not have too much overlap. Again, draw a rough cut line in pencil.
    • Cut out the toilet paper roll footprint. It should be a rectangular piece of paper.
  • Place the toilet paper roll at the end of the paper. Line it up so that the ends are aligned.
  • Apply a thin line of glue on the construction paper directly in front of the toilet paper roll, where the roll touches the paper. Gently ‘roll’ the toilet paper roll onto the glue so that the end if glued on. Then, squeeze glue, covering the rest of the construction paper. Tip: don’t use too much glue. You don’t want glue oozing out the sides and end of the toilet paper roll like a jelly donut. You just want enough glue to ensure the paper sticks to the toilet paper roll.
  • ‘Roll’ the rest of the construction paper around the toilet paper roll. Apply another thin layer of glue on the end of the paper in order to ensure the toilet paper roll is completely covered.
  • Trim excess paper as needed.

How to Make the Monkey Part Two:

  • Trace the monkey head on the back side of the brown foam. The easiest way to do this is to draw a wide ‘U’ with the corners curved in. Then, draw the ears (make sure they stick out to the side a bit), and connect the ears together to form the top of the head. Remember.. it doesn’t really matter if there are tracing marks on the back of the monkey head. If you are concerned about not being able to see the trace marks, use pencil and then erase the marks after you cut out the head.
  • Cut out the monkey head and trim the foam until you get a monkey head shape that suits your taste.
  • Cut out a small circle (probably about 1″ in diameter) out of the tan foam. this is for the monkey snout.
  • Cut out two very small circles from the pink foam. These circles will be the inside of the monkey ears, so they need to be small enough to fit inside the ear part of the monkey head.
  • Stamp two dog paws onto the leftover brown foam sheet. Use black permanent stamping ink and a dog paw stamp. (Mine is from Stampin’ Up, but paw stamps are very common). Cut the two paws out, close to the paw outline. Try to cut the paws in a half circle, so that there is a straight line at the bottom of the paw.
  • Use the black sharpie to draw the nose and mouth onto the small tan circle.
  • Glue the googly eyes on with either craft glue or the glue gun. Note: My daughter did help with the googly eyes, but the eyes proved to be a little small for her to manipulate, so she lost interest quickly.

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  • Use a glue gun to affix the snout and inner ears onto the monkey head. Then, use the glue gun to glue the monkey head to the front of the toilet paper roll, and glue the paws to the body of the toilet paper roll.
  • For the tail, use the hole punch to punch a small hole about 1-2″ above the bottom back of the toilet paper roll. Note: you will have to squeeze very hard.
  • Cut about 1/3 off of the brown pipe cleaner and feed one end through the hole so that the short end is inside the toilet paper roll. Tie a knot  and glue the knotted in to the inside of the toilet paper roll with the glue gun. This will anchor the tail. Twist the pipe cleaner around a pen or pencil to mimic a swooshing tail.

There you have it! A super cute monkey zoo animal toilet paper roll craft!

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One final note: Even though I wanted to make this craft with my daughter, I ended up making most of it on my own. My daughter is 2 years old and still working on all of her fine motor skills. She will love playing with this tiger, and all the other zoo animals I am making. However, her involvement in the creation of this craft was minimal. If your kids are older, they will easily be able to do more of the craft than my 2 year old did.

Thanks for checking out this super cute zoo animal toilet paper roll crafts for kids series!
Sara

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