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Monkey 1

Monkey 2

One rainy Saturday afternoon recently, the kids helped me make this wildly striped sock monkey. He was inspired by an old blue-and-grey one of Keira's that she'd found in an opshop.

Our sock monkey suffers from a rather dated colour scheme, but we were limited in our sock choices. He was great fun to make- sewn by hand, button-eyes painstakingly chosen by our friend next door, and wonkily stuffed with legs of two slightly differering lengths. Perfect.

(You can find lots of instructions for making monkeys from your old socks online, but this tutorial looks quite good. I also found these beautiful sock animals, all in one colour, here on Pinterest.

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16 responses to “take one pair of old socks”

  1. louana Avatar

    he’s cute! I love the sock animals on your pinterest link too. Arlo is growing up so quickly, must be the haircut 🙂

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  2. SmitoniusAndSonata Avatar

    I like his colours . He looks as though he knows how to party !

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  3. Angela Avatar

    Look at how grown up Arlo has become!…xx

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  4. caireen Avatar

    I like him – he looks like he’s eaten oranges, bananas and chocolate. cx

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  5. kate Avatar

    I love that they each have such distinct little monkey characters! so sweet.

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  6. Carol Avatar
    Carol

    What a lovely bright sock monkey.
    Carol xx

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  7. Heather Avatar

    Two handsome fellows in that last shot! I still have my childhood sock monkey, Nelson. He went everywhere with me – even summer camp. I hope your children enjoy their monkeys as much!

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  8. Marty Avatar

    I think they’re very cute, and the colors are great!

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  9. Carling Shirley Avatar

    Aww I love sock monkeys they are tons of fun to make and kids just light up when they see them!

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  10. Tania Avatar

    This would be a great school holiday project for the kids. Must keep an eye out for colourful socks. Yours look so fun and cute!

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  11. Rose Avatar
    Rose

    I really like them, especially the brown stripy one. Our old socks are always so worn out by the end of their lives, that I don’t think they would be suitable for sock monkeys…

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  12. Miss Smith Avatar

    Wow, they are both really cool, the new one and the old one. Good job everyone!

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  13. Corrie Avatar
    Corrie

    really cute … if you have any more socks to spare you might want to try one of these sock-animals:
    http://www.brigitte.de/wohnen/selbermachen/naehen-socken-tiere-574186/
    the link is german, but the pictures are self exlpanatory

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  14. steve Avatar

    great idea with old socks and “green” too 🙂

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  15. valeria Avatar

    I love that monkey!!

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  16. fancy dress Avatar

    Wow! Those are so pretty! That’s the one craft I can’t get a grasp on…I can knit like crazy, but going to one needle (hook) just blows my mind!

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