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Ages 2–5
🦁 Safari & Jungle Animals
Waving Monkey With Banana Colouring Page
A round-bellied monkey sits waving one paw while holding a half-peeled banana, its tail curled into a spiral behind it.
- Suitable for
- Ages 2–4
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Easy
- Printing
- Black & white
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What your child practises
- Fills large open shapes like the belly and head with steady, even strokes
- Colours the five separate fingers on the waving hand one at a time
- Tells the peeled banana skin apart from the fruit using two different colours
- Follows the tail's spiral curve from the base to its curled tip
- Matches colour across both ears and both feet for a balanced result
About this worksheet
This monkey sits square on the page, one paw raised in a wave with all five fingers spread out, the other paw wrapped around a banana that has been peeled open into three curling strips. Its head is big and round with a small tuft of hair on top, two large oval ears, round eyes under arched brows, a small oval nose and a wide smile. Below the face sits a plain rounded belly, two front feet with rounded toes planted on the ground, and a long tail that loops back on itself in a full spiral. There is no jungle scene around it, just the monkey on a plain white background, so nothing competes for attention.
That plainness is what makes the page useful. The head and belly are big open shapes a small child can fill in a few broad strokes without worrying about staying inside anything tricky. The waving hand and the banana are fiddlier, five separate fingers and three curled peel strips, so a child gets a bit of practice working in a tighter space once the easy areas are done. It is also a page with plenty to point at and count together: two ears, two eyes, five fingers, one banana with its peel pulled back.
There is nothing complicated going on here, no extra characters or background to colour around, so it works well as a first monkey page for a toddler or as a quick, satisfying one for a preschooler who wants to finish something in one sitting. The thick, simple outlines are forgiving of a wobbly hand, while the banana and fingers give an older three or four year old a bit more to concentrate on.
How to use this sheet
Let your child start with the big belly and head, the easiest parts, before moving to the banana and fingers, which need more care. Count the five fingers and the peel strips together as they colour. If lines get crossed near the tail's spiral, that is fine, it is a hard curve even for adults.
