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9 Monkey Coloring Pages to Print for Free!

Animals

By Coloring Together

Drawing of a monkey sitting with a banana colored with colored pencils
Colored by the Coloring Together artists. See gallery.

They leap from branch to branch, hang by their tails and always look like they are up to some mischief: that is what monkeys are like. The best part of these monkey coloring pages is that they arrive blank, ready for you to decide the color of every little hair.

We gathered monkeys of every kind: a big smiley one with its banana, another swinging from a vine, a baby monkey holding a flower and even one hanging upside down. You can paint them the classic brown or go wild with a purple monkey, a green one or any color you dream up.

At Coloring Together we picture our gallery as a giant tree full of branches, with room for a monkey on each one. When you finish yours, send it to us: we would love to hang it up there next to the others.

Monkeys coloring pages

Why color monkey pictures?

The monkey is one of our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, and that is why it makes us laugh so much: it uses its hands like we do, pulls funny faces and even solves problems to get food. There are more than 250 species spread across the jungles of America, Africa and Asia.

Coloring monkeys is a fun way to notice all those details: the long tail, the round ears, the thin little fingers. While you pick the shades for the fur and the background, your hand loosens up and your mind relaxes, like when you watch the monkeys at the zoo and do not want to leave.

We also spread lots of fun facts about monkeys among the drawings, so every page you color leaves you with something new to share. Shall we start swinging from the branches?

Learn while coloring Monkeys

  1. There are more than 250 species of monkeys in the world. They fall into two big groups: Old World monkeys, which live in Africa and Asia, and New World monkeys, which live in the Americas.
  2. American monkeys, like the spider monkey and the capuchin, have a prehensile tail that works like a fifth hand: they grab branches with it and even gather food.
  3. The smallest monkey in the world is the pygmy marmoset. It is so tiny it fits in the palm of your hand and weighs barely 100 grams, less than an apple.
  4. Monkeys are very clever. Some capuchins use stones like a hammer to crack nuts, and many learn to solve problems to reach their food.
  5. They live in groups called troops. They groom each other, checking through the fur to remove dirt; it is their way of making friends and looking after one another.
  6. Careful, not every primate is a monkey: chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are apes and have no tail. Real monkeys almost always have a nice long tail.
  7. The howler monkey is one of the loudest animals in the world. Its howl can be heard more than 5 kilometers away, as if it were shouting from the other side of a town.
  8. Monkeys love fruit, but they also eat leaves, flowers, insects and seeds. In the wild they hardly ever try the shop bananas we always draw them with.
  9. The proboscis monkey has a huge droopy nose, and the golden snub-nosed monkey lives in the snowy mountains of China, wrapped up in its thick fur.

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