“The Adventures of Reddy Fox” by Thornton Burgess is a short, classic novel based on a young, mischievous fox. This quick read is great for children of all ages and it is the start to an entire series of different animals in the forest.

The following read aloud activities were put together as a plan for our Homeschool Book Club. You can read more about how I host that HERE. However, these activities are also fun to do with your family at home. The activities are intended to be completed at the end of the book as a little book celebration. So please use this plan as it best suits you in the season that you are in.

This post contains affiliate links. If you follow one of my links I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting my blog!

Discussion Questions

• What is your favorite part of this book?
• Who is your favorite character?
• Why does Reddy Fox live with his grandmother?
• Who is Reddy Fox always running from?
• What happened to Reddy Fox that caused him to get hurt?
• What had to change for Reddy Fox and his grandmother at the end of the story?

All About Foxes – Scavenger Hunt

SUPPLIES: Fox Printout (FREE), Scissors, Tape, Bright Paper and glue stick (optional)

I printed the information for this scavenger hunt using this FREE printable. I had my children cut out the squares and paste them on to bright orange paper so that they would stand out.

Hide the cards all over. I prefer to do this outside, but it rained the day we met, so we hunted for cards indoors. Tape them or place them so that the bright orange is visible for the kids to see.

Once all the cards are found, sit in a circle and read each card together. Depending on the ages and abilities, you could read the cards to them or ask a child to read out loud to the group.

One of the cards talks about the sounds that foxes makes. There is a link to hear these sounds, and I highly recommend visiting it and sharing it with the kids. It’s just always so fun to use multiple senses while learning.

Snack – Fox Cupcake

SUPPLIES: Cupcakes, Icing, Food Coloring, Chocolate Chips, large Ziplock bags, multiple spreading knives (I use plastic silverware for easy clean up.)

For this activity you’ll need to bake the cupcakes in advance so that they are cool enough to frost and decorate. Use any flavored cupcake you’d like. We chose vanilla to keep it simple. It also helps if you make a finished cupcake in advance to use as an example.

You will need to prepare the icing. I purchased one white icing and separated about 1/2 of a cup into a bowl. To this I added red and yellow food coloring to make it a light orange color. Save the remaining white icing. Put the white icing into a plastic bag and snip the corner to use it as a piping bag for decorating.

I had plastic knives stored away, so I was able to give each child a knife for spreading. The first step is to spread the orange icing onto the cupcake. Next, use the white icing to pipe the two sides of the fox’s face. Then, gently spread the white colored icing to blend together.

Feel free to get creative with this next part – building the face. You could simply use chocolate chips for the nose and eyes and call it finished. We do a lot of baking at my house and I happened to have candy eyes and some long orange sprinkles. I showed the children that they could use two sprinkles to make ears and allowed them to add their own unique touch to it.

The final step is to eat it! This is a great time to read a story while mouths are quiet and filled with a yummy treat!

Read Aloud

SUPPLIES: Any picture book of your choosing – use your library or something you already have! See suggestions below.

My focus for this book club was foxes, but you could read a picture book about anything – forest animals, hunting, farming, etc. I did not want to purchase anything extra for this so I showed up to my library and checked out the nonfiction section first. I didn’t have any luck, but the computer system led me to a picture book that talks about the life cycle of a fox. It was so perfect!

The book is called “Fox” by Kate Banks and it follows the life of a newborn fox as it learns from its mother and father. The pictures are beautiful and the wording on each page is not too long for a sugared up group of kids eating fox cupcakes. (ha!)

Drawing A Fox

SUPPLIES: Paper, Colored Pencils, Pencil

I picked a very simple instruction video from Art for Kids Hub that I knew kids of all ages could do. It was a hit! Everyone enjoyed the drawing and it was so neat to see how each child added their own special touch. They all wanted to color it and make it their own, and it was something simple and sweet they could take home with them.

Want more Book FUN?

We were able to finish all of these activities in about an hour and a half.The kids had so much fun! They loved discussing the books together and the simple activities were engaging and exciting for them.

A small book celebration like this really brings a book to life and we love experiencing the novels we read together in this way. I plan to share all of our book club plans with you, so sign up for my email list below and be notified each time a new one is posted.

You can also check out the growing blog post containing each book we’ve completed already. If you’re a fan of adding to your read alouds in a simple way, I want to encourage you to see the different Read Aloud Experiences I have created. Almost all of them are absolutely FREE! These are created on a chapter-by-chapter basis and create such a unique, hands-on read aloud unit to do together with your family!