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Monkey Business You'll go ape over these cute monkey-themed crafts! From "Creative Juice" episode DCRJ-604

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Funky Monkey Art

Using assemblage art techniques, it's easy to turn ordinary objects around the house into fun, original pieces of ape-inspired art.

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Funky Monkey Art: Fabric Monkey (left) and Kitchen Items Monkey (right)

Use different types of objects to create a funky monkey face as a piece of artwork. We have made two different types: one with kitchen items and one with different types of fabric.

Kitchen Items Monkey

Materials:

canvas
craft paint
old pot lid
metal grommets
soup spoons (two)
fork
sunglasses
rope
wire
wire cutters or bolt cutters
E6000 glue

2. To create a kitchen items monkey, use objects like pot lids (face and nose), two soup spoons (ears), a fork (tuft of hair) and an old pair of sunglasses (eyes) to make a face (figure A) (figure B). Use wire cutters or bolt cutters to trim the arms off the sunglasses and the spoons, if necessary. Add details to the face with metal grommets, rope and wire. Paint a canvas with craft paint and use E6000 to glue the items together and to the painted canvas. Thrift stores are great places to find materials for this monkey.

Figure A

Figure B

Fabric Monkey

Materials:

canvas or 4 stretcher bars
backing fabric
staple gun
fabrics with different prints, colors and textures
fabric glue
Stop Fray
additional embellishments (velvet leaves, fake butterfly, etc.)
hot glue gun

3. To create a fabric monkey, stretch a piece of fabric over a stretched canvas or four stretcher bars and secure with a staple gun (figure C). Choose different colors, textures and prints for this monkey. Cut out pieces to create a monkey face; glue together using fabric glue (figure D).Use Stop Fray along the edges of each piece of fabric to prevent fraying, if. Add additional embellishments, such as velvet leaves and a butterfly, using hot glue.

Figure C

Figure D

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RESOURCES :

Rockford Red Heel sock
Website: www.foxsox.com/Catalog/SockDetail

E6000 Glue
Eclectic Products, Inc.
Website: eclecticproducts.com

Fabri-Tac Glue
Beacon Adhesives, Inc.
Website: www.beaconcreates.com