Cute and Easy Fox Shapes Craft

Simple and easy fall fox shapes math craft for primary grades

Cute and Easy Fox Shapes Craft

Hey, y'all! I ran across this cute fall fox craft online and wanted to recreate it to use at the end of our shapes unit at the beginning of the year, but I couldn't find any directions for setting it up. So, I finagled, and came up with the closest I could figure out. Today, I share this chaos with you so that you don't have to try to figure it out on your own!

I saw this little guy and thought my students would love it. And I was right. I heard a LOT of "best day evers" when we made this. I get tired of pre-printed crafts and this was an easy way to assess students' knowledge of shapes without a pencil and paper quiz.

So, I started with an orange piece of construction paper. I cut it in fourths lengthwise and in half widthwise so that I had rectangles for the bodies that were 3" by 4.5". That gave me 8 large rectangles for the bodies per paper. So if you have 24 kids, you'll need 3 sheets of orange paper.

Preparing for fall fox shapes math craft

Then, I cut another piece of orange paper into a 9" by 9" square and saved the part I cut off for later. I cut the square into 4 smaller squares, and then again diagonally to make the larger triangles. These are the foxes' heads.

I cut some of the big triangles in quarters to make the ears, and I used the extras from what I cut off to make ovals for the tales and 4 legs per student. I cut slightly smaller triangles out of white paper for the inside of the ears and some semi-circles for the fox faces. In the end, each student had a collection that looked like this:

I had all this prepped and ready to go before the kids got to school. For a background, I used blue construction paper, but you could switch it up for the seasons if you wanted to. I started my background before I showed the kids and added some details as they made theirs.

Background for fall fox shapes math craft

Then, as a class, we added each piece one at a time. I had them find the large rectangle, then the smaller rectangles for the legs. We added the big triangle heads, and the smaller triangle ears. We talked about what an oval and a semi-circle are since our curriculum doesn't cover that. Their finished products were both eclectic and very cute.