
Go Bananas At Club Coconut
(with Coco, Keekee, Tiki, Kookey)
Math Problems:
1. How many monkeys are in the picture?
Answer: (4)
2. How many coconuts is
Keekee holding?
Answer: (1)
3. If
Keekee passed the coconut to Tiki and
then to Kookey, who would be left holding
the coconut? Answer:
Kookey
4. If Coco
climbed down the coconut tree with (6) coconuts and passed them all to
Tiki, how many coconuts would
Tiki be holding? Answer: (0) Tiki is holding
onto the tree limb and couldn’t hold onto (6) coconuts without falling off.
5. There are (3) monkeys on the tree
limb and (1) in the palm tree. If (2) monkeys fell off the limb and (1)
climbed down the palm tree, how many monkeys are left on the tree limb?
Answer:
(1)
6. What color is
Coco?
Answer:
Brown
7. What color is
Keekee?
Answer: Pink
8. What color is
Tiki?
Answer: Blue
9. What color is
Kookey?
Answer:
Purple
10. What is a standard color for a
real monkey?
Answer: Brown
11. Do monkeys come in other colors? Answer: Yes, but not
usually pink, blue or purple.

Le Coco Hut
Kid’s
Go
Bananas
With This Simple Fried
Banana
Recipe!
Need:
Bananas,
butter, cinnamon sugar or powdered sugar
Peel your bananas
and either cut them in half lengthwise (or leave them whole.) Fry them in one
TBSP. Butter on one side & then the other side until brown. Sprinkle with
cinnamon sugar or powdered sugar & serve warm. Experiment with other toppings
like caramel, nuts or others.

Kid’s Go
Coco-Nutty
With These Simple
Coconut
Cookies!
Need: 2 ounces grated
coconut
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 cup margarine
4 cups cornstarch
Use a preheated 375-degree oven. Grease cookie sheet. Sift sugar &
cornstarch; add coconut,
margarine & egg. Form a dough ball and roll dough out into 2-inch length
shape. Cut into 1-inch cookie slices. Place on greased cookie sheet. Can add
extra shredded coconut
as topping. Bake for approx 15 minutes. Let cool completely before eating.
Yummy!
Kid’s Assignment: Come up with your very
own Coconut Island Pictures, Poems, Stories, Illustrations, Monkey Facts,
Monkey Games or Monkey Jokes and “Go Bananas!”

Monkey Tree
”Can we climb the monkey tree?”
One curious monkey said to me.
I can use my arms, my feet and tail.
With all these parts, I’ll never fail.
I’ll climb as high as I can go.
Come on along and watch the show.
The kid’s will laugh as they find me:
A curious monkey in a monkey tree!

Photo taken in Steilacoom, WA
Copyright 2001 By
Author Patti Tricoli