1. Paint your hand orange with the sponge brush and place it down on the paper in the top right-hand side. Try to spread your thumb down to create the nose and then your fingers separated kind of like Spock (if you can) to create the ears. (see pictures below if you need guidance)It doesn't have to be perfect so just do the best you can.
2. Now paint your hand again with the orange and turn it around to create the body. Your thumb will be the tail and your fingers spread apart will be the legs. (Again, use the photo for guidance if needed.)
3. Allow your paint to dry. Once your body is dry you can paint on the blue socks.
4. Paint on large round white eyes with your white paint.
5. Lastly using black, paint on the inner part of the eyes, a mouth, and whatever extra touches you want to add.
We painted the inside of his ears, gave him some lashes and eyebrows and a few touches here and there. In the book, the fox is very expressive and has large eyelashes.
Directions for Paper Plate Craft
1. Paint your paper plate orange.
2. Cut the plate creating the fox's face.
3. Use the leftover plate to cut out the fox's ears.
4. Attach the ears with glue to the back of the paper plate.
5. If you have wiggly eyes, attach them with glue. If you don't want to buy wiggly eyes then you can, of course, use white and black paint to create his eyes.
6. Use black paint to paint on the nose and eyebrows.
If you need guidance with any of the steps the pictures below should be of some help.