What age group is this costume for?
Preschool and Younger
Elementary School

Estimated time required to make this costume:
2 hours

Difficulty level:
Almost as easy - some sewing

Items you will need: (Hit your return key to start a new line)
brown hooded sweatshirt
brown sweatpants
brown fabric
brown ribbon (optional)
black marker
bendable wire
cotton filler
glue
small monkey stuffed animals
black makeup

Instructions:
Measure 3 lengths of wire to fit around child comfortably, with extra space for stuffed animals. Glue brown fabric to wires to form barrel (save some fabric to make ears, tail and shoulder straps). Mark lines on barrel with black marker. Cut two lengths of fabric to use as shoulder straps (or use brown ribbon), attach to inside top of barrel. Cut a piece of wire to desired length for tail, cover wire with stuffing and brown fabric. Attach to inside of the back of barrel and bend to look like tail. Attach stuffed animals to inside barrel rim so monkeys are hanging over.

Cut 2 ear shapes out of brown fabric and attach to hood of sweatshirt.

Put black makeup on nose.