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.
