Third Grade Activities

Browse through our third grade activities, or use the selector below to pick a subject. You'll find many third grade activities to keep your child learning on the fly, all year long. From fun holiday activities to subject specific ones there are many 3rd grade activities to choose from.

Bead Rasta Inspired Jewelry

Bead Rasta Inspired Jewelry

In this simplified activity, your young child can make her own Rasta-style necklace using beads and shells.

Paper Hearts: Experiment with Positive and Negative Space in Art

Paper Hearts: Experiment with Positive and Negative Space in Art

Introduce your child to the concepts of positive and negative space in design with this simple yet striking Valentine's Day art project.

Make a Rain Gauge

Make a Rain Gauge

Kids become young meteorologists as they make their own rain gauge to measure and predict rainfall in their own backyard.

Pop Bottle Science

Pop Bottle Science

Teach your kids about entropy with this fun, easy exercise, and teach your money to dance while you're at it!

Create a Venn Diagram Creature!

Create a Venn Diagram Creature!

Venn diagrams provide a perfect starting point for your child to brainstorm ways that two ideas or objects are similar or different. Introduce your child to this technique by helping her create a Venn diagram fantasy creature!

Healthy Halloween Breakfast Muffins

Healthy Halloween Breakfast Muffins

Disguising fraction lessons as baking provides your little chef with math practice without him even realizing. Give these yummy pumpkin breakfast muffins a Halloween twist by decorating them with ghostly marshmallows.

Play the Probability Hustle

Play the Probability Hustle

Probability can be a tough concept to master. Try playing this fun card game and help your child understand it better. Put on your thinking caps and discuss the odds of winning and whether or not the game is fair.

Make an Orange Cup Bird Feeder

Make an Orange Cup Bird Feeder

Got a bird fancier on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a scrumptious bird feeder using an orange, string, and a wooden knitting needle.

Tour the Planets

Tour the Planets

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system! He will need to call upon his knowledge of addition, subtraction, and multiplication in order to navigate the game board.

Create a Postcard From Africa

Create a Postcard From Africa

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Celebrate African heritage by discovering a new and exciting place in Africa and writing a postcard to a friend, pretending you are in Africa.

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