Fox Learning Activities for Kids

October 18, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

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.

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Celebrate Inventor’s Day by Learning about Inventors

Several countries have a day set aside to honor and recognize their inventors, but Nov. 9 is a special one that’s known as Tag der Erfinder in German. It’s celebrated in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and it falls on Nov. 9 because that’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Lamarr is widely known as an actress but there’s a lot more to her story. You can get a little of it geared to little kids in the Little People, Big Dreams book Hedy Lamarr (32 pages, hardcover, published 2023 by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, suggested retail price $15.99).

The book explores her birth in Austria and how she spent time when she was young coming up with inventions. She became an actress, married an arms dealer, made her escape to America and became an actress again.

But she also helped develop a frequency-hopping signal device for airplanes that was used by the Americans and their allies during World War II. That technology became the basis for wireless technology such as wifi and GPS.

While Inventor’s Day is a great time to learn about Hedy Lamarr, you can take this opportunity to check out books and do little studies on lots of different inventors. If there’s an inventor or an invention your child is particularly interested in, that’s a great place to start. It’s fun to think about all the things we use every day that didn’t always exist; someone had to invent them!

For a start here at Craft Gossip you can learn more about Garrett Morgan, who invented traffic lights; Maria Oroso, who developed a clay oven that could cook food without electricity; and more female inventors and scientists.

And for more general inventors’ fun, check out this inventors word search from Fun Findery (and another from Let’s Do Puzzles) or take a quiz on inventors and their inventions from Flanders Family Home Life.

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