Fox Learning Activities for Kids

I don’t know why I think of foxes as being a fall animal, but here we are, so let’s explore some learning activities and crafts to do with foxes.

By the way if you’re looking for arctic fox materials, we’ve got you covered for that, too.

Start out with some fun facts about the red fox from Our Lively Adventures. If you want to learn more about the different kinds of foxes, check out these pages from National Geographic Kids:

There are actually 24 different species of fox, and you can learn a little about all of them from Trillium Montessori. (The fennec is my favorite!)

Grab a free fox lapbook printable from Homeschool Share that includes a ton of great information for kids. There’s a mini book to read, information about types of foxes and predator vs. prey, plus information about where foxes live, how they communicate and why their tails are so special.

Mudpies and Makeup has a cute set of free printables with foxes, including fact cards, clip counting cards, fox rhymes, a puzzle, size sorting and more. These are a great way to learn a little about foxes and also do some basic activities with foxes as the theme.

If you’re able to pay for resources, this fox fact booklet from The Breezy Teacher is cute and includes a printable fox mask craft. I also like the set from Montessori Nature, which includes the parts of a fox, life cycle, three-part cards, learning booklets and more.

I love this fox ornament made out of a walnut shell! This would be a good craft for older kids and it makes a great holiday ornament for the tree. You can get the instructions from Red Ted Art.

Kid Minds has a cute fox activity sheet printable that includes connect the dots, a maze, trace the letter f, find the letter and more. This is a good time filler at home, in the classroom or when you’re out to eat. Nature Inspired Learning has some nice realistic looking fox coloring pages as well.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

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