Arctic Fox Activities for Kids

There are lots of winter animals that are fun to learn about when it’s cold outside. I’ve covered polar bears and penguins before, but this time let’s learn about the arctic fox.

The arctic fox, also known as the snow fox or white fox, lives in the arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. They have warm, thick, white fur and fluffy tails that help them keep warm and camouflage them in the snow. Their fur actually changes color through the year, and you can learn about how and why that happens from Discvr.

They are small omnivores, with bodies that grow to about 18-27 inches (45.7 to 68.5 cm) and tails that are about 13.75 inches/35 cm long.

Learn more about them from this post on National Geographic Kids. If you need some arctic fox books for your library, check out the Scholastic book Arctic Foxes or Arctic Fox: Fantastic Animal Facts for Kids.

Add some arctic animals to an arctic sensory bin for extra fun while learning, like this one from Fun Learning for Kids. If you don’t want to do ice, Mama Megan Allysa has a version using Epsom salt as the base, or use fake snow (you could also use cloud dough) like this one from Fun-a-Day.

Learn how to draw an arctic fox from Art Projects for Kids, or use a coloring page like the one from First Palette.

Simple Living Creative Learning has a printable pack about the life cycle of the arctic fox and a printable fact book. This pack of more than 80 pages also includes alphabet cards, letter tracing, three-part cards, math activities, I-spy, do a dot letter matching, writing pages and more. It’s available to download for free in black and white or in color.

The Who Lives in the Arctic spinner craft from Non Toy Gifts helps kids learn about other animals that live where the arctic fox does, including reindeer, polar bears, seals and narwhal.

Fairy Poppins has a nice set of arctic fox writing and labeling activities at Teachers Pay Teachers.

And of course we can’t forget the crafts! Make an adorable arctic fox face using crafts sticks and this tutorial from Made to be a Momma. This printable from Simple Everyday Mom also uses craft sticks as the body of the fox. Or make a handprint arctic fox like this one from Our Kid Things.

If it’s hot where you live, you might be looking for some fun activities you can do with kids inside the house. And while bubbles are generally a strictly outside the house kid of activity, these special bubbles are ones you can play with inside. It’s both a lot of fun and a science lesson.

These bubbles aren’t blown into the air, you blow them onto a tabletop gently through a straw.

What’s really cool about them is that they will stay on the table top without popping. You can even blow another bubble inside the first bubble, or stack bubbles on top of each other.

Why does this work? It’s thanks to a special ingredient in the bubble solution: sugar.

This particular recipe is from Play Party Game, but I’m sure you can find it other places with similar ingredients as well. But this post has a good explanation for what is normally happening with regular bubble solution made mostly with just soap and water, as well as why the sugar helps to make bubbles stronger and helps them last longer.

You could make this into a full on science experiment for your kids, comparing regular bubbles (this time you’ll want to do it outside or somewhere easy to clean) to the “unbreakable” bubbles, letting them hypothesize about what ingredients might help make bubbles stronger or what the sugar does to the solution.

You can talk about the molecular structure of the bubble being altered by the sugar, which makes it stronger and longer lasting.

They even have an activity kit you can buy to help guide your explorations and that offers extension activities for you to try.

Or you could just play with them. No judgement here; it’s summertime.

Grab the recipe and more of the science behind the bubbles from Play Party Game. And while you’re playing with bubbles you can also check out my giant bubble solution recipe over at Our Daily Craft.

[Photo: Play Party Game]

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