Third Grade Arts and Crafts Activities
Third Grade Arts and Crafts activities to help show your child the fun side of learning! From easy third grade arts and crafts activities to more advanced, we've got you covered! Browse the activities below or use the selector to find similar activities.
Make Mug Markers
Making these one-of-a-kind mug markers will help kids flex their creativity and gain button-sewing practice.
Sew an Herbal Dream Pillow
By using a tapestry needle, double-sided tape and a stitch guide, this activity helps make sewing more accessible to a beginner.
Homemade Sidewalk Chalk
What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!
Create a Fourth of July "Keith Haring" Tablemat
This project takes its inspiration from the modern artist Keith Haring. His work is a celebration of freedom, right in line with the Fourth of July. Help your fifth grader design a colorful and exciting Fourth of July tablemat that you can use over and over again!
Watering Can Craft
This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for flowers and gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.
Create a Story Quilt
Here's a fun art activity that combines measurement and design with drawing and painting. Kids tell their own special story as they create a beautiful and unique story quilt.
Make an Oil Lantern
This project demonstrates how lighter liquids, such as oil, float atop heavier liquids, such as water. An oil lantern is cool any time of the year, regardless of religion, but makes a great craft for Hanukkah, too!
Make Rose Petal Beads
Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Crushing the rose petals releases their sweet essence, and can transform them into beautiful beads!
Make Your Own Putter
Let your child unleash his inner Tiger Woods with this fun activity. Little golfers can make their own putter and design a putting course around the house!
Craft Personalized Postcards
Making personalized postcards is the perfect rainy day project--especially when your child gets to decorate the photos and write meaningful messages. And while it feels like a craft, it also gives kids a chance to hone writing skills-- key to third grade.
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