Rated medium difficulty for others -- a bit fiddly, but not hard.

I made a few mods --

I folded two pipe cleaners and put them into the arms and legs before closing off the hands and feet…that is I pierced the fabric of the body with the folded pipe cleaner and organized each such that one formed a “U” with each end going into a leg, and one going across the chest into each arm.

Also, instead of knitting the arms and legs separate and then sewing them on, I used Susan B. Anderson’s technique of picking up legs of stitches on the body and knitting out from the body to avoid having to sew on later.

Finally, I left one round of red out of the monkey’s mouth. It seemed too swollen to me. I like how mine turned out…you may want a more swollen monkey face. Your mileage, not mine.