63 Printable Monster Templates
Check out our awesome new monster templates for endless family fun! Featuring a whopping 63 free printable templates, we’ve included a variety of blank and outlined or coloured monster images to suit all educational or playtime needs. Whether you’re looking for a fun classroom activity or a quality home experience, our monster templates are perfect for sparking creativity, imagination, and fantasy.
As always, we’re dedicated to providing free opportunities for families or teachers to create limitless activities for kids. At Just Family Fun, you can find a wide range of free printable templates like these, along with plenty of ideas for educational or creative activities. We’re here to help prove that learning can be exciting for kids and parents alike, so pick your favourites and get imaginative!
What’s Included in our Printable Monster Templates
With 63 printable templates to choose from, there’s no limit to the family fun and games. Below, you can find 42 blank monster outlines and 21 coloured monster templates. From colouring to counting or storytelling, our monster templates can be used for lots of creative and educational activities, sparking imagination and a joy for learning and fantasy. You can even print multiple copies of monsters for fun memory games to improve attention and concentration while providing a fun challenge.
42 Printable Monster Outline Templates
The perfect blank slate to encourage creativity, boosting children’s art skills and lateral thinking. Once printed and cut, let your kids go wild with colour and accessories, creating unique monsters that they’re sure to love!
Colouring and Designing
In addition to colouring in our cool templates, try encouraging your kids to think more creatively. How about giving them a neat hat or putting them on a skateboard? You can even design and colour your own background—try putting them in different scenes and worlds! The only limit is your imagination, so think creatively and laterally about what you can add and create. You can even use our templates as inspiration to make your own monsters, from cute fuzzy ghouls to spooky beasts!
If you’re feeling extra creative, how about cutting them up and combining the faces, arms, or legs of different monsters? This can help children understand the concept of body parts and anatomy and teach them about proportion within art. Furthermore, colouring and drawing are excellent for improving children’s fine motor skills. You can even create a fashion show with your monsters, boosting kids’ public speaking skills by presenting their idea, and increasing their self-confidence.
Storytelling and Roleplaying
Using our monster outlines is a great way to teach kids to form characters, worlds, and stories. While colouring them in, encourage your kids to think about what to name them or what kind of personality they think the monster has. You can go as far as creating unique, magical worlds, families, and storylines. Give a go roleplaying with kids and see what kind of stories they come up with. This is a great way to boost their emotional skills and empathy, forming fictional relationships and considering the feelings of each character.
Emotion Recognition and Charts
Our monster templates can teach children about emotions and feelings, helping them recognise certain emotions and learn their names. You can also work on early literacy skills by having them write out the relevant emotion. Something that can help teach kids emotions is forming associations with colours, such as “sad” being “blue”. By labelling or colouring the relevant emotion on our monsters, you can use them to create emotion charts! This is particularly helpful for children with autism, helping them learn how to recognise and communicate their feelings.
21 Colour Printable Monster Templates
Looking for a quick, low-mess activity? We’ve got you covered with these pre-made monster templates, including a range of bright, vivid colours. These are perfect for keeping the attention of little ones, with different colourful features. Additionally, these are low-stress activities, only involving printing and cutting!
Math and Counting
With features like horns, claws, or teeth, our coloured monster templates are great for early learning. Teach them numbers in a fun, exciting way by asking how many toes a monster has or how many eyes! You can also teach addition or subtracting, combining the features of different monsters. This is a great way to boost their mathematical skills and counting in a fun and unique way!
Colour and Pattern Recognition
Perfect for young children and early learning, our array of colours can be instrumental in teaching the names of colours. You can also discuss colour mixing, such as which colours might be combined to make pink or purple. Ask them what colours blue and red make, or encourage them to consider other unique colour combinations.
Patterns are great to learn with monsters, too! Get your kids thinking about whether a monster seems furry or scaly and if their colour pattern repeats. This will help expand children’s vocabulary and understanding of patterns, colours, and different types of animals. For example, which monster do you think is slimy like a slug?
Storytelling and Roleplaying
Like with our blank outlines, these pre-made monsters are excellent for focusing on storytelling and forming characters or interests. Using existing monsters, ask kids what kind of food they think their monster eats or what sort of hobbies they think the monster does. Kids can even go a step further, drawing additional accessories or items in the empty space to reflect the monster’s personality.
Sounds, Movement and Physical Activity
Teach kids about how different creatures move, improving their body awareness and understanding of movement. For example, what monster would slither, and what monster would stomp? Try having them act it out, showing how they think a monster would move! You can also test their knowledge by performing an action yourself and seeing what monster they think will make that action or even sound! Some monsters might roar, while some might hiss or even speak normally. What kind of sound do your kids think monsters make?
Schedules and Routines
Why not try designing your own monster activity cards for kids and parents who benefit from a schedule? For example, what might you draw on a monster to indicate bedtime or breakfast? Bond and create with your kids to come up with the perfect activity cards, forming a flexible way to teach kids a routine. Even with tricky tasks like homework can be made a little more fun by decorating your own homework monster!
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These printables and more are available for free download on JustFamilyFun.com. Check them out and get ready for hours of fun and learning!