Letter X Coloring Page with a Fox Playing the Xylophone

Xylophone starts with X, and fox ends with it. On this letter X coloring page, a smiling fox sits behind a xylophone with a mallet in each paw, one raised in the air and one held low over the bars. The capital X and the lowercase x fill the top half as big, empty outlines, with stars and music notes floating around them.

It is a free printable for ages 4 to 7, and it fits a letter of the week on X in preschool or kindergarten. Few common words start with X, so a fox that ends with the letter gives children a second example.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "the capital letter X and the lowercase letter x side by side, drawn large as hollow outlined letters ready to color across the top half of the page, with a xylophone and a fox below them."

"Drawn large" made the capital X about a third of the page tall. The words "hollow outlined letters" turned the X and the x into two wide crossing strokes each, with one thick border and nothing inside. "Side by side" put the capital on the left and the lowercase to its right, starting lower down. "Below them" placed the fox and the xylophone across the lower half of the sheet, with the fox seated behind the right half of the instrument.

What's in This Letter X Coloring Page

Each letter is two strokes that cross in the middle, so a child can color one stroke at a time and meet at the center.

Xylophone starts with the letter X, though its first sound is a z sound. Fox ends with x, and that ending makes the ks sound heard in box and six, so a speech therapist can use the fox to practice it.

The xylophone has six bars, and each bar is held by two small round pins. The bars rest on a low frame with a plain block at each end. Both mallets have round heads on thin sticks, and the fox grips each stick near its end.

The fox has two pointed ears with an inner line in each, a black nose, an open smile and a fluffy chest. Its big tail curls up on the right, and a zigzag line marks off the tip. There are four five-pointed stars, two near the top right corner and one on each side of the fox's head. Two of the three music notes are joined pairs, and one is a single note beside the lowercase x.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

Give each of the six bars its own color, in rainbow order from left to right like a toy xylophone. The bars are long and straight, so a child can color each one with strokes that run along its length. Keep the round pins dark so they show on the bars, and color the frame brown.

Color the fox orange and leave its chest and the tip of its tail white below the zigzag line. A darker orange or a light brown works inside the ears. Color the stars yellow, and give the music notes the color of one of the bars.

Names like Max and Felix end in x too, so make a coloring page with a child's name and the animal they like best.

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