Ten Little Monkeys {Class Display}

It's been a long time since I've done a class display, so I couldn't wait to get this up on the wall. We are learning about monkeys this week, so I decided to turn my kiddos into jumping monkeys! First I found some monkey clip art that I liked. I mostly traced them onto white paper, but I also had to draw a little myself to get them exactly how I wanted them. After making copies, the kids used watercolors to paint them. There were three monkeys from which they could choose. Then I took a picture of each child making a monkey face (ha!) and cut it out and attached it to their monkey.

(These pictures were taken at nap time, so forgive me if they aren't so great.) I cut the faces into "heart" shapes on the top and made sure to cut the kids' ears off, since they already have ears on their monkeys. Then I laminated them to make them sturdier. Some kids just smiled when I took their picture, but some made an ooh-ooh, ahh-ahh face, and one child even puffed his cheeks, which was adorable!

Then I made a bed out of poster board and construction paper. I used dot markers to decorate the bedding.

I displayed them in the hall with the title, "Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed."

Skinny hallways prevented me from getting a better picture of this. Sorry!

It turned out really cute and, as always, the kids love seeing themselves whenever we walk by!