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.

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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