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.

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I’ve written a lot about different Fourth of July activities and crafts over the years (see links below) but one thing I haven’t touched on much is the Fourth of July party. A backyard hangout and barbecue is a classic event, so why not bring some fun outside with red, white and blue games the whole family can play?

Games like these can help develop fine motor skills, and getting kids up and moving is always a good idea. If adults join in, so much the better.

Six Clever Sisters has collected a dozen fun Fourth of July games you can make for the backyard to play for the holiday or any time during the summer.

A lot of these are regular sorts of backyard games like hitting targets with squirt guns or tossing balls into buckets, but given a red, white and blue twist for the patriotic holidays.

These games would be fun throughout the year regardless of whether you put a patriotic spin on them.

For example the tic tac toe game shown here, which is from Hey Let’s Make Stuff, would be cute with x’s and o’s painted in any colors you like. And of course you could make it even easier and just play on the sidewalk with red, white and blue chalk if you don’t have a ready supply of wooden letters.

Check out all the ideas for backyard party games for the Fourth of July at Six Clever Sisters.

Looking for more things to do for the Fourth of July with kids? Check out these posts from previous years for even more inspiration:

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