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Free Monkey Felt Hand Puppet Pattern

Make your very own felt monkey hand puppet using our free pattern. Very simple to make – just cut felt and glue together. You could hand sew it too, if you wanted.

What you’ll need:
Monkey Puppet Pattern PDF
• 2 brown felt sheets
• 1 tan felt sheet
• 1 pink felt sheet or scraps
• 1 white felt sheet or scraps
• 1 black felt sheet or scraps
• Crayons
• Glue (Hot glue, Fabric Tac or any glue that works with felt)
• Scissors
• Pins

How to Make the Monkey Felt Hand Puppet:
monkey1blog Trace the body pattern on top brown felt sheet with crayon.

monkey2blog Pin the top brown felt sheet to bottom brown felt sheet so they stay together when you cut.

monkey3blog Cut the felt along the traced body line.

monkey4blog Glue the two layers of felt together around the edge keeping the bottom open for your hand.

monkey5blog Cut out all the felt features.

monkey6blog Glue the eyes to the face.

monkey7blog Glue pupils, nose and mouth to the face.

monkey8blog Glue the belly to the puppet.

monkey9blog Glue the ears.

monkey10blog Glue the inner ears and face to the puppet.

monkey11blog Cut small circles or square of white felt and glue gleams to the pupils.