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Kids Craft – Newspaper Mixed Media Fox Craft

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This kids craft tutorial is for a mixed media Newspaper fox. This craft is easy to create and can be used as an art lesson or paired with a Children’s storybook such as the following books.

Fox went out on a chilly night

What does the Fox say?

 

 

Newspaper Fox Art

Kids Recycled Art and Craft

List of Supplies:

  1. Old newspaper
  2. Colored Craft Paper
  3. Scissors
  4. Craft Glue
  5. Acrylic Paint and paint brush
  6. Pencil
  7. Template
  8. Black sharpie

Instructions:

Step (1)

Prepare the patterns from the template. Trace the patterns on an old newspaper and cut them out using scissors. 

Fox Art Template

Step (2)

Prepare paint and brush. Paint the whole body part with a layer or two. The tail has 2 parts divided by a zigzag pattern; paint the bottom side of the tail and keep the top (open) side intact. For the head, paint the outer parts of the ears and the rest except for the 2 semi circular parts on both sides of the head.

Step (3)

Select a colored craft paper and glue the body part on it first.

 

Step (4)

Next, glue the tail and the head to complete the fox.

Step (5)

Use a black sharpie to draw the eyes and the nose of the fox. 

 

You can add more details if you want.

Gather more old newspapers and get creative!

 

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The printable includes drawings of some common moss such as sphagnum moss and wood moss, as well as common lichen shapes (crusty, leafy and shrubby). There are good sized images you can print out and laminate to use to compare to specimens you find when you are exploring nature.

There’s also a forest floor coloring page and a printable journaling page where kids can write or draw their observations and there are a few questions older kids can answer.

You can use these when you go on a walk in the woods (or the back yard) to talk about what you are seeing, or combine them with other resources to talk about things that live in the forest. Check them out at Raising Up Wild Things.

This PDF from the Morton Arboretum has a bunch of pictures of different kinds of moss and where to find them, which could also be helpful in your studies. Learn more about lichen, including what they are and what they are not, in this article from the US Forest Service.

[Photo: Raising Up Wild Things]