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.
Think Big
Practice number sense in this game! Learning place value is necessary before mastering other concepts, such as addition and subtraction. Work with your child to arrange playing cards and create the largest numbers possible, then practice saying them aloud.
Shooting Hoops Multiplication
Play this fun basketball game to help your third grader master his multiplication tables. Not only will he improve his math skills, but he'll get some exercise in, too!
Draw Horrible Homophones
Work on homophones and spelling with this imaginative activity where your child can doodle or draw some silly things all in the name of learning!
Decorate a Felt Barrette
In this fun felt activity, a few circles of felt and a scattering of beads quickly become flowers that your child can use to decorate a barrette!
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.
Craft Chocolate-Filled Hanukkah Gift Bags
Giving children small bags of coins during Hanukkah is a tradition that remained in steady practice since the Middle Ages! Help your child get in touch with a long-standing tradition.
Make Your Own Water Gun
Encourage your child to learn about air pressure by helping him devise his own squirt gun with a soda pop bottle and balloon!
Hold a Math Marathon!
Looking for ways to make learning math facts easy and fun? Try this activity that challenges your child to use his math skills to win a race!
Tic-Tac-Toe Multiplication
There are plenty of fun ways to practice multiplication facts, and this game is definitely one of them! Every third grader needs to work towards memorizing his times tables. Try reviewing those facts, Tic-Tac-Toe style!
Rubber Band Printmaking
Create your very own rubber stamp using rubber bands and cardboard. This is a simple way to create a beautiful design that can be used again and again.
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