These adorable, free printable, monster puppets, and fun monster counting song, are perfect for singing along with your child, or use them for storytelling or imaginative play!
These funny little monsters make a great Halloween activity, and they are a fun way for kids to explore the idea of monsters in a non-threatening, playful way, which can help them overcome any fears too.
Puppets are great fun for singing, story telling and more, find lots more free printable puppets here.
When my youngest child was a toddler he developed a sudden and intense fear of monsters. We didn’t know where this sudden and intense fear had come from, and nothing we did seemed to make it any better. Reassuring him that monsters were not real had no effect, and all the books we found about children overcoming their fear of monsters were too old for him, so I decided to make some monsters puppets so he could work through his fears through play.
These five bright, colourful, silly, friendly looking monster puppets were a huge hit with my toddlers, as were the funny monster counting songs we sang together.
We let my toddler play with the monster puppets for a long time. He’d often pick them up and give them voices, or even build houses from them out of blocks. And while these cute little puppets were not a magic cure to his fear of monsters (time and maturity helped a lot!) being able to ‘play out’ his fears in a safe way for him really helped.
Make Your Own Monster Puppets
These fun monster puppets and the silly monster counting songs are now a hit will all the preschoolers I know, and they are so easy to make!
All you need to make this monster puppet craft is the printable template (download below), some craft sticks and some tape.
Print the monster puppets onto some cardstock and cut out each one. Or you could use regular printer paper and laminate the puppets after you have cut them out. Tape a craft stick to the back of each monster and you are ready to sing some monster songs, use them for story telling, or for imaginative play!
I enlisted the help of the big kids. Big brother drew a fun backdrop for the puppet play, and the big sisters came up with a story that showed the monsters being funny and doing normal every day, not scary, things. The big kids put on a silly ‘monster puppet show’ for their little brother.
Sing a Monster Counting Song.
These little monster puppets are perfect for singing along and acting out a fun counting song!
If you know the song ‘Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed’ you’ll recognise this fun monster song!
Five Little Monsters Jumping on the Bed.
Five little monsters jumping on my bed.
One fell off and bumped his head!
I called to Mama and Mama said,
“No more monsters jumping on the bed!”
Four little monsters jumping on my bed…
Three little monsters jumping on my bed…
Two little monsters jumping on my bed…
One little monster jumping on my bed.
He fell off and bumped his head!
I called to Mama and Mama said,
“That’s what you get for jumping on the bed!”
We also love this cute little monster poem.
Five Little Monsters
This little monster has a big red nose
This little monster has bright green toes.
This little monster plays all night.
This little monster is such a fright.
And this little monster says
“Tee-hee-hee”
“I’m not scary, I’m just silly me.”
Free Printable Monster Puppet Templates
If you have your own monster fears, or perhaps you are celebrating Halloween, or maybe you just want to play with these cute monsters and sing some fun songs – you can make your own monster puppets with our free printable template.
There are five fun and friendly monsters in this free printable monster puppet set, plus a colourful song words poster to go with them.
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. It will fit to print on US ‘letter sized’ paper, just be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options to allow for printer margins.
More Monster Activities and Ideas for Kids
Get the full set of monster puppets which includes the monster puppets in colour and black and white so you can colour them in!
The set also includes 3 different monster song/poem posters, all in colour and black and white, a matching set of monster number cards, and a bonus roll and cover monster to encourage more number exploration and learning!
Find the full Monster Puppets and Counting Song Set in our Shop, on sale for just $2
And if you are looking for even more fun monster activities, try one of these fun ideas:
