Kindergarten Art - Draw a Fox

Drawing a Sweet Fox

A Cute Red Fox by Izzy (age 6)

If you can draw shapes, you can draw a fox!

Ever wish you were more artistic? Ever wonder how to encourage your kids to explore art when nobody ever taught you how? Turns out it's easy if you take it step by step.Watch as my kindergarten class jumps in.


You'll need:
2 pieces white paper to do some warm up drawing
Black construction paper
White or yellow colored pencil
A pencil
Oil pastels




Step 1: Practice your shapes!
Warm up drawing.

If your child can draw a triangle, oval, circle, zig-zag and moon, they can draw a fox!




Use the examples here to create a warm up sheet for your kids. Encourage them to repeat shapes until they feel confident with them. The more they practice the more confident they will be!




Step 2: Draw your fox! Grab your white colored pencil and go!

You (and your child) will be drawing on black construction paper with a white colored pencil. I have drawn on white paper here so that you can see each step clearly.

1. Begin with the head, add an upside down triangle at the top of your page, about an inch down. Draw an upside down triangle. Now you have your fox's head.

2. Add 2 small right side up triangles on the top corners of the head (ears!) 

3. Add a smaller triangle inside each of the ears.

4. At the bottom tip of the triangle add a circle for the nose.

5. Half way down the head add two small circles for eyes.

6. Around the eyes draw two larger circles.

7. Add a large oval body below the head (the fatter, the cuter!)

8. At the bottom of the belly add a circle

9. Add 4 small half circles for feet

10. Add a half moon/crescent tail

11. Add zig-zag tail tip.

12.Add a ground line behind your fox.

Step 3 : Color!

Begin by coloring the sky (light blue  or light purple will work best)
Color the ground green. Add a darker green beneath your fox as a shadow if you like (the second piece you see above is a great example of this).

Now grab your white pastel.
Color the small inner triangles of the ears.
Color the larger circles of the eyes.
Color the belly (small circle) and tip of the tail white.

With your black pastel color the inner circles of the eyes and the tip of the nose.

Color the rest of your fox red!

One final note on making mistakes:

Sometimes a child (or anyone) makes a "mistake" and may want to give up. A child in class colored "too much" of his fox's belly white and was nearly in tears because he felt he had ruined his work.

Instead we talked about looking at his fox in a new way. It didn't take long for the class to realize that this child had created a "snow fox". After that the child worked with enthusiasm to create his own very special fox.

Now he has a beautiful snow fox sitting on top of a mountain in a snow storm. This fox is definitely the star of the show.

Remind your kids: there are no mistakes! Only happy accidents. Make the most of them!