Five Little Monkeys

One of my favorite nursery rhymes is the “Five Little Monkeys”. The children love to act it out. I have monkey masks a phone and a stethoscope in a basket to make it easy to use. 

The children really like the props and of course they love to jump. I really like it when I can have the children develop large motor skills through a fun nursery rhyme.

And don't you love this dedicated mama?

And this very competent doctor?

 I made copies of the masks on colored paper and laminated them. I put elastic so the kids can wear the masks.

Click on the image below to download the mask template from MediaFire.

Good question to promote critical thinking:

How old are those monkeys? What makes you say so?

Why are they jumping on the bed?
Why do children jump on beds?

Why Mama, Papa and the doctor do not want the monkeys to jump on the bed?
Why did the mother have to call a doctor? 

When choosing a child to be the doctor - Should the doctor be a boy or a girl? Why?

If you were a monkey how would you behave?

Why do you think the monkeys did not listen when the doctor said "No more monkeys jumping on the bed"?

What would you do to make the monkeys stop jumping on the bed?

etc...

and here are the words to the nursery rhyme

Five Little Monkeys

Five little monkeys jumping on the bed,
One fell off and bumped his/her head.
Mama (or Papa) called the Doctor and the Doctor said,
"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

Four little monkeys jumping on the bed,
One fell off and bumped his/her head.
Mama called the Doctor and the Doctor said,
"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

Three little monkeys jumping on the bed,
One fell off and bumped his/her head.
Mama called the Doctor and the Doctor said,
"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

Two little monkeys jumping on the bed,
One fell off and bumped his/her head.
Mama called the Doctor and the Doctor said,
"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

One little monkey jumping on the bed,
He fell off and bumped his/her head.
Mama called the Doctor and the Doctor said,
"Put those monkeys straight to bed!