We have an absolutely adorable craft for you today. It is a monkey pop up card, which is perfect for the Year of the Monkey, for Chinese New Year; it does after all, say “Happy New Year” on the front *bit of a giveaway that*
Just so as the card doesn’t get too lonely, we also have a colouring page as well, with another Monkey theme. Perfect for you to get the kids to colour in, perhaps while you are trying to sort out the card for them :-D.
The card is simple to create, as you can see from the template:
All you need to do is:
- Fold the printable in half, along the line as shown, so that the monkey is cut in half (lengthways)
- Cut down the mouth with some scissors until you reach the point of the triangle
- Score, or fold, along the dotted line around his mouth, on both sides creating a triangle
- Open out the card now, and fold the monkey the other way (widthways)
- Make sure the mouth opens, you can of course colour it in behind the mouth, and that the folds are secure enough for the mouth to open whenever the card is opened too.
All done! Well, except that you need to colour everything else in of course.
If you are the kind of person that likes a video tutorial, then nip over to the KiddyCharts YouTube channel, and there is one there for you; don’t forget to subscribe to us will you?
As promised, we have another printable for the Chinese New Year, and the Year of the Monkey to give away too. This time, a simple colouring page for you.
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If you don’t have time to do this card, or the colouring now, then do pin it for later too, won’t you? See you again soon.
This is a collaboration with the rather wonderful Hattifant; do check her site out, she is just wonderful. She also has a couple of additional colouring pages for Chinese New Year of the Monkey for you to take a look at too. Even more fun for the kids!
Helen
Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine! Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time. KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10. It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania. Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on. Get in touch TODAY!