• Dramatize your favorite part of the story
• Gather all of the caps that you own and see how many you can carry on your head
• Decorate a plain painter's cap
• Bake monkey bread
• Talk about how many words rhyme with "cap"
• Play the game "A Barrel of Monkeys"
• Play "Monkey See, Monkey Do"
• Practice counting to 50
• Introduce money and discover the many different ways to make .50
• Work on creating a repeating pattern such as the one the Peddler created with his caps (4 gray, 4 brown, 4 blue, 4 red etc.)
• Watch the Caps for Sale video
• Count how many caps the peddler has balanced on his head, see if you can beat his number
• Visit the zoo to see the real monkeys

Also By This Author:

Circus Caps for Sale

Pezzo the Peddler and the Thirteen Silly Thieves (OOP)

The Wonderful Feast (OOP)

Billy the Condominium Cat (OOP)

The Flame, The Breeze and The Shadow (OOP)

Supplemental Books:

Ten Cats Have Hats by Jean Marzollo

Three Hat Day by Laura Geringer

The Rat-a-tat Hat Book by Richard Morgan

Jennie's Hat by Ezra Jack Keats

The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams

Follow the Money by Loreen Leedy

Songs and Rhymes:

From "Mailbox Magazine". It is sung to "The Farmer in the Dell".

The peddler sells his caps
(Stand very straight & walk slowly)
The peddler sells his caps
Heigh-ho the dell-o
The peddler sells his caps.

The peddler falls asleep ...
(sit down slowly & very straight)
The monkeys take his caps ...
(pick up pretend (or real) caps)
The peddler then gets mad ...
(stomp feet and shake fists)
They throw down his caps ...
(throw down caps)
The peddler sells his caps ...
(stand very straight & walk slowly)

Websites:

Monkeys in a Tree coloring page: http://www.sundayschoolresources.com/cp4monkey.htm

A different kind of peddler selling his wares coloring page:  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/educators/workshop/discover/color.html

Cowboy Hat Coloring Page:  http://www.everythingpreschool.com/coloringpages/western/cowboyhat.htm

Money Activities:         http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/prek2/theme/money.shtm

Printable Money:                    http://pbskids.org/lions/printables/misc/money.html

Websites with more thoughts and ideas:

http://ematusov.soe.udel.edu/teaching_resources/_books1/00000078.htm  http://www.fiveinarow.com/ubb/Forum21/HTML/000012.html  http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/527.html  http://www.eduplace.com/tview/pages/c/Caps_for_Sale_Esphyr_Slobodkina_.html 

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~kkuebler/credits.html