I've had the design sitting in a notebook, for years, and I thought I might as well cut out the pieces for a Monkey on a stick toy.

Here's a pic of the pieces laid out to more or less illustrate the basic shape of it.

It's not a small toy; the body, tip of head to tip of tail is about 15 cm. Once I add the dowels, I hate to think how big it'll be. I haven't done the calculations - I can't measure the dowels to suit until the monkey's put together, and I can't put the monkey together until it's painted (well, that's my excuse. Obviously I could loosely fit it all together in it's raw state, but where would the fun be in that? Ha ha).

It's a half made-half made monkey in progress.

Given a few coats of paint, it should come up okay.

I had thought of changing the face shape, a bit, and adding pointy ears, and making a cat, but I didn't think of that until just now, looking at the picture, so that'll have to be the grounds for another project.

Talk about keeping myself busy, ha ha.

Here's an "off the internet" example pic, to help with envisaging what they toy looks like completed, and in a fairly limited sense how it "works".