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By: Papaya Ink Team · Last updated: October 14, 2026
Ask someone to picture a fox and they will almost always picture the same one: orange coat, white bib, dark socks, a white tip on the tail. That is the red fox, and it is only the start. The gray fox mixes salt-and-pepper fur with a rusty collar, runs a black stripe down to the tip of its tail, and is one of the very few members of the dog family that can climb a tree. The arctic fox turns pure white for winter. The fennec of the Sahara stays the color of sand and carries the biggest ears for its size of any wild canine. And the silver fox is simply a red fox born dark, its charcoal coat frosted with white-tipped hairs. If you want a fox to look real on paper, the tail tip and the legs are where you tell them apart.
These fox coloring pages come in two kinds. Some are storybook scenes: a fox at home in the woods, sharing the seasons with its forest friends. Others step out into the wild, where foxes of different species share the page with neighbors from their own habitat – forest, prairie, desert, tundra or frozen coast. The wild pages come both as plain black-and-white line art and as pages with a color sample on top. Use the Show me buttons above the grid to see everything, only the black-and-white pages, or only the pages with a color sample. Click any picture and its PDF opens in a new tab, sized for US Letter and printing just as well on A4. On a black-and-white printer the color sample comes out gray, so print those pages in color or keep the sample open on a screen beside you.
Fox fur is easier than it looks. Lay the lightest shade over the whole body first, cream or pale orange, then build the darker tones in short strokes that follow the fur – heaviest along the back, lightest on the belly. Leave the chest, the cheeks and the inside of the ears almost bare; that white bib is what makes a red fox read as a red fox. Go dark only at the end: the legs, the backs of the ears and the tail tip. Keep a pin-sized dot of white paper in each eye for the shine. Pages marked Detailed reward sharp pencils and a quiet evening; the rest suit kids or a short, relaxing session.
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Fun Things to Make with These Coloring Pages
- Color the four-season set (autumn picnic, Christmas den, snowy sled, summer berry patch) and hang them in a row as a rotating wall calendar for the hallway.
- Fold the tea party page in half after coloring to make an oversized greeting card, and write your invitation inside.
- Glue the birthday party page onto cardstock, cut it into six or eight pieces, and you have a homemade jigsaw puzzle.
- Cut the fox out of the hot air balloon page, tape it to a strip of ribbon, and hang it as a bookmark tail that peeks out of your book.
- Color the mail carrier page, then mount it on a folded sheet of cardstock to make a keepsake envelope holder for tickets and notes.
- Turn the stargazing page into a night sky by coloring the background dark blue and dotting the stars with white gel pen or metallic marker.
- Laminate the farmers market page and use it as a "seek and find" placemat: how many pies, how many carrots, how many acorns can you count?
- Color the treehouse page and the bedtime story page, tape them back to back, and use them as a two-sided cover for a small notebook of your own fox stories.




