3rd Grade Activities
In third grade, learning gets kicked up a notch, and more complex concepts will land squarely on your child's plate. Want to help, but aren't sure how? From fun activities to learn about place value, to outdoor games that teach parts of speech, we've got the goods to keep your child on track all year long.
Make an Acrostic Birthday Poem
This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.
Bunny, Rabbit, Jellybean! A Math Game
OK, so bunnies are leaping, baby chicks hatching, and seasonal baskets are overflowing with green plastic grass and foil eggs. Your kid's mind is heavily weighted with dreams of holiday chocolate. But that doesn't mean you can't still have fun with math!
Make Your Own Haggadah Scrolls
Haggadah Scrolls are a great way for kids to practice handwriting, but itâs also a surprisingly effective way to get them to think about the meaning behind the Passover holiday.
Graph Your Household Energy Use
Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.
Four Ways to Use Leftover Easter Eggs
Now that the Easter bunny has come and gone, and Easter hunts have all ended, there's just one teeny problem: what are you going to do with all those perfectly good leftover hardboiled eggs? Here are four healthy variations on deviled eggs, an old classic.
Grow Salt Crystals!
Crystals are a very special structure. In this activity, your child will learn how to grow salt crystals.
Find the Lost Leprechaun
Guess what: After all these centuries of happy mischief, one lone leprechaun has gotten lost. Help him get back to his friends at the end of the rainbow with this cooperative game that also flexes your third grader's math and social studies skills.
Sidewalk Cave Paintings
Give your kids the opportunity to act like cavemen . . . or at least draw like them!
Make a Maze with Drinking Straws!
Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your third grader's math reasoning skills.
Money Magic Secret Codes!
It's a rare kid who doesn't love a good treasure hunt. Here's one that's a brain-challenge for your third grader, calling upon math skills with money and with decimals!
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